Britain can't be ignored in the AI conversation – Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO, Builder.ai

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sachin Dev Duggal, founder, CEO and self-described chief wizard, of Builder.ai, discusses the ways people commonly misinterpret AI, the importance of allowing diverse groups input in regulation and lawmaking concerning the technology.

Builder.ai is a Microsoft-backed startup that uses AI technology to provide a simplified method of app and software development. As the founder of one of Britain's most prominent AI companies, Duggal shares his own experience operating a tech company in the UK and explains why there is so much still to do to make the country viable as a leader in AI, but that the pieces are all there to achieve this.

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0:00.0	We're seeing a lot of scaremongering, which is basically pushing people into like when we reach the singularity, when we reach general intelligence.
0:13.0	I mean, brutally honestly, right now it's apparent. It's not even intelligent.
0:20.0	So it's great.
0:21.4	You read Series A, you read Series B.
0:23.9	You know, you've got good revenue run rate.
0:25.3	Where do you go to get money?
0:26.3	You go to the US.
0:27.7	Now you go to the US, you go to the Middle East.
0:30.1	But you don't learn the UK.
0:33.7	It was a really, a really deep lesson for me in learning, which was in the end, I have to just
0:41.4	stay true to myself. Did I do anything wrong? No. Am I difficult to work with? Probably.
0:52.2	From the first time founders to the funds that back them, innovation needs different.
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1:26.1	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakings of the UK tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:36.3	And today I'm joined by Sachin Dev Dugal, the co-founder and CEO of Builder AI, a firm which is aiming to simplify the building of websites and apps using
1:45.9	artificial intelligence. Welcome, Sachin. Thank you so much for having me, Jane. Now, you've once
1:51.3	said that your aim is to make building apps as easy as ordering pizza. So explain to me how your
1:58.0	software does that and also talk around how much of this is using AI right now and how much of this is down to human input.
2:05.6	I think both of them are, you know, static questions.
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