Perspectives: Episode 97 – Cash and burn

In this episode, Escala Partners CIO, Tracey McNaughton, talks about the payoff with artificial intelligence and whether the dizzying amounts being spent on semiconductors and infrastructure will be worth it. And what role do private markets play in finding genuine use cases of AI?

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In this episode, Investment Analyst Darragh Kennelly, talks to Jess Cairns of Alphinity Investment Management and Qinghua Lu of CSIRO to discuss their recently released research report on the implications of artificial intelligence use by companies and investors. They outline the framework for investors to use when assessing key threats and opportunities of AI usage and highlight some interesting responsible AI case studies of large multinationals.

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In this episode, Escala Partners CIO, Tracey McNaughton, and Escala Adviser Ed Brooke reflect back on the past 100 episodes since the Perspectives podcast began during covid in 2020. The past four years had it all – lockdowns, recessions, recoveries, bank runs, bank collapses, wars, uprisings, innovations, bubbles that burst, bubbles that inflated, elections that surprised, elections that divided.

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