Artificial Breakdown

3. The Carbon Cost of AI | Dave Nagy

Artificial Breakdown

Show Notes

Carrie and Pete bring Dave Nagy into the "studio" with only one of them knowing what to expect. Dave is a serial entrepreneur Founder at eCommerce Canada and they chat with him about the tucked-under-the-rug environmental downsides of the AI revolution, building your brain* into a chatbot and how one good boozy brunch can unearth a multitude of discoveries. *Note: not an actual brain.

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