Silicon Valley and Oil and Gas Are Playing the Same Game

Houston has always run on optimism, spending everything to drill a hole where nobody has drilled before and then finding out what came back. Leon Coe, founder of Amplify Intelligence and the Houston AI Club, thinks that same instinct is exactly what AI needs. He and Chuck get into why executives cannot delegate this one, why augmentation beats automation, and why your own level of ambition is a hard ceiling on what the models will ever hand back.

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00:00 The perfect podcast length

02:03 What executive AI coaching actually is

04:48 Building the Houston AI Club

08:50 Why Houston is wired for AI

14:29 Augmentation, not automation