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Podcast: Jimmy's Jobs of the Future
Episode: Graphcore - the most exciting company you probably haven't heard of
Description: Graphcore is backed by Silicon Valley Venture Capital Sequoia, who have backed Apple, Google, WhatsApp, Youtube, Instagram and Zoom amongst many others.Nigel Toon founded Graphcore in Bristol, and now is employing 450 people across Beijing, Palo Alto, Oslo and Cambridge. Highlights of the episode:
Nigel thinks that the impact of Artificial Intelligence is both overblown and underestimated
How we should think of AI as a tool similar to how the spreadsheet impacted accountancy, far from displacing jobs as many predicted - more people are now working in accountancy than ever before.Â
How the most po...