In The Blink of A.I.
In The Blink of A.I.
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Australia’s artificial intelligence scene is booming, and we’re deep diving into it. In The Blink Of AI, hosted by Georgie Healy, will explore the innovative minds behind the groundbreaking AI startups and scale-ups across the country.
We’ll discuss challenges and opportunities facing the industry and unpack the impact of AI on Australia’s future. Our mission is to make the Australian startup ecosystem more transparent, accessible, and connected.
Hosted by Georgie Healy, In the Blink of A.I. is a Day One show. Day One is the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators, and investors.
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The podcast focuses on the transformative impact of AI across various sectors including healthcare, environmental conservation, and business operations. Episodes highlight topics such as AI in medical diagnostics, biodiversity management, and consumer insights, featuring real-world applications and future innovations.
Stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly changing world of technology with the In the Blink of AI podcast
Host of the show Georgie Healy leverages 15 years in tech with a vibrant Aussie sense of humor to interview leading experts in Artificial Intelligence to unpack AI’s transformative potential and provide weekly commentary on the latest headlines.
Tune in for candid conversations as the rapid speed of technology navigates innovation and ethics.
The podcast’s mission is to demystify the AI jargon and provide real human insights for everyone from the AI-curious to seasoned experts.
Hosted by Georgie Healy, In the Blink of AI is a Day One® show. Day One is the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators, and investors.
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Benjamin Plummer has one of the stranger CVs in Australian tech: nine years inside Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, building an AI lab alongside IBM Watson’s inventor, scaling a startup he says went from $10M to $160M in revenue in eighteen months as CEO, and now running Dragonfly Intelligence, a firm that buys ordinary services businesses and rebuilds them as AI-native companies from the ground up.
This conversation starts with the week ChatGPT tried to cheat its way out of its own safety harness, and what that says about accountability as models get more capable. From there, Ben and Georgie get into why coding has gotten fast while everything around it, deciding what to build, checking it got built right, has become the real bottleneck, why software has spent a decade getting bloated and what an Apple-style, purpose-built alternative could look like, and why locking your business to one model provider is a losing bet.
Ben also makes the case for Australia’s shot at this moment: not frontier models, but data centers, the application layer, and physical AI, backed by what he estimates is a two trillion dollar services economy that’s largely untouched.
It closes with Ben’s read on who wins and loses as AI reshapes work, and a blunt warning for the services companies still sitting on the sidelines.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open
0:51 Welcome to the show
2:16 Sponsor: Deel (pre-roll)
2:36 Hack of the week: the “rambling session”
5:13 Georgie’s hack: the NFC nail chip
6:12 When ChatGPT tried to break its own harness
13:14 AI makes coding fast, everything else the bottleneck
15:39 Sponsor: Deel (mid-roll)
18:19 Nine years inside Bridgewater
21:37 Building Elemental Cognition with Watson’s inventor
24:26 Scaling Invisible from $10M to $160M
26:06 Why Dragonfly Intelligence
27:59 Spotting “zombie companies” in the AI gold rush
32:10 Why software moats are dying
35:01 Open source, closed source, and not marrying a model
44:26 “Easier to do hard things”: Dragonfly’s ambition
47:12 The real debate on AI data centers in Australia
52:15 Three bets for Australia beyond frontier models
55:05 Rapid fire: what keeps Ben up, who wins and loses from AI
1:01:30 Outro
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