Imagine the year 1996, the internet exists, but only for researchers and geeks. Dot com wasn't known to anyone and Sam Altman just turned 11. Amazon doesn't exist and neither does Google. Microsoft is a well established company, mostly known and successful because of Windows 95. At the same time a mathematics student writes his thesis about Neural Networks. You think this was early? The beginning of AI - well, not really. It was already the 2nd phase of the AI evolution. AI is much older than most of us know and think - and that also means it is much more established today than we might think.

I had the pleasure to talk to Wolfgang Hauner, an experienced Technology & AI expert. Wolfgang is a long standing AI veteran & enthusiast. He has already in the 90ies researched about AI and wrote his diploma thesis about AI and data. Talking to someone that is already that long in this business is rare and a first for me in this podcast series. Wolfgang and I are diving of course deep into AI and Gen Ai today, but also go back to the infancy states - and why this matters. But this is not where we stop - Wolfgang has for a long time lived the enterprise life in big global companies but recently switched to the start-up life. Why he did this, what he has learned - but also, what recommendations he has for both, small start-ups and big enterprise to better collaborate and benefit from one another is an interesting theme we will explore. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did. Let's get going with Wolfgang from Link Intelligence.

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