Alex Conconi Podcast

EP5 - Erin O'Toole on Free Speech, Artificial Intelligence, Relations with China and the US, Public Healthcare and more...

As a middle power in the western world, Canada is facing all sorts of hard problems. In this episode, Alex and Erin discuss some of the hardest problems that leaders in Canada are going to need to tackle over the next decade as they relate to free speech, online content, artificial intelligence, relations with USA and China, health care, and much more.

EP4 - Benjamin Tal on Overshooting Interest Rates, Immigration and Housing Supply, and What's Next

Benjamin Tal, Deputy Chief Economist of CIBC, gives an economic update to the Conconi Growth Partners and Neighbourhood Holdings community, moderated by Alex Conconi with discussion featuring Taylor Little, CEO of Neighbourhood Holdings.

EP3 - Ben Rabidoux on Canadian Real Estate, Interest Rates, Compounding Pain, Immigration, Supply and more.

Alex Conconi and Ben Rabidoux discuss what is going on in the Canadian Real Estate today, including interest rates, immigration, housing supply, and housing prices. #housing #canada #canadianrealestate #canadanews #realestate

EP2 - Geordie Rose on AI, LLMs, Humanoid Robots, Consciousness, Business Opportunities

Geordie Rose is the founder of Sanctuary.AI, whose mission is to build the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. Geordie was previously the founder of Kindred.AI (sold for $250M) and DWave Systems (NYSE: $QBTS) the world's first commercially available quantum computer. In this conversation, Alex and Geordie discuss everything from ChatGPT to BingChat, Large Language Models, what it means to think, how to build a mind, what is consciousness, the opportunity that humanoid robots provide, and much more.

EP1 - Peter Zeihan on Canadian Demographics, Geo-politics, Challenges, War and Globalization

What's the future of the North American trade block? How does Canada fit into it all? What challenges and opportunities does Canada have over the next decade? Are high interest rates here to stay? Will China invade Taiwan? In this fascinating 75 minute conversation, Peter presents his thesis (or perhaps more accurately, his "synthesis" of all types of information) as it relates to Canada in particular.