Inside the race for AI business adoption – The Gadget Show’s Jason Bradbury

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jason Bradbury, best known for presenting The Gadget Show, explains how businesses are “finding their feet” when it comes to AI, why he’s bullish on the metaverse, and recalls some of the zaniest product testing he’s done.

Bradbury was a presenter on Channel 5’s The Gadget Show from its launch in 2004 to 2016, where he tested tech and participated in grabbing stunts – including a jet-powered skateboard. In early 2024 The Gadget Show returned as a podcast presented by Bradbury and Suzi Perry. He is also a speaker at business conferences, where he discusses the transformative impact of technologies such as AI, and a published author. Elsewhere on the podcast, Bradbury discusses his film project about gamers using retro tech to fight back against AI in Skegness, and explains why he’s bullish on the metaverse.

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0:00.0	Is it a good time to be investing in tech for businesses? Well, yes, because AI is so revolutionary.
0:14.7	I don't fear for the human in the chain as much as some people do, although I understand
0:19.0	maybe if I was a factory worker, I might have
0:21.1	more to worry about, or if I was a lawyer, I wouldn't want to be a lawyer right now.
0:28.3	One minute they announce a large language model that blows everything up to that point out of the
0:33.4	water. Next, their CEO's been fired. Then he's back. It was a bit of a mess, wasn't it?
0:40.9	It's incredible, isn't it? From the first time founders to the funds that back them,
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1:10.6	slash EN- gb.
1:17.5	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:22.8	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and joining me this week is Jason Bradbury,
1:30.3	probably best known as one of the original hosts of Channel 5's The Gadget Show.
1:35.3	Welcome, Jason.
1:36.3	Hi Jane, great to be here.
1:38.3	Now, why was it that the Gadget show was such a hit?
1:41.3	What is it that we loved about gadgets?
1:43.3	And has that kind of changed? Because are we now living in a sort of almost a post gadget era?
1:48.3	That's a really good question. So to answer the first question, based on the way that people
1:53.3	come up to me, even now, 20 years since the first ever episode of the gadget show, and about
1:59.3	six to seven years since I left,
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