David Smith (@revodavid) is the Cloud Developer Advocate and R Community Lead at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, David was the Chief Community Officer (and is current editor-in-chief) of Revolution Analytics, a daily news about using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and visualization since 2008.

David has a knack for building user communities and is currently the Vice President of Community for REvolution Computing, David focuses on promoting and supporting the commercial use of the open-source data analysis software system R.

David is a co-author of the tutorial manual An Introduction to R, one of the originating developers of ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics and is also a member of the board of the R Consortium.



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The ethical problems of analyzing data
* Why AI will affect so many massive industries
* How governments need to start thinking about AI/ML
* The reason David thinks artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it destroys
* Why we're still decades off from artificial general intelligence
* The tech giant effect on AI and data science
* How Microsoft is leading the way towards tech future
* David's thoughts on the future of tech monopolies
* Why the battle for the future is based on attracting developers
* Where cloud computing is headed from here
* Why open ecosytems and opensource almost always wins







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