The Mike Hosking Breakfast Newstalk ZB

Tornado season is off to a wild start in the American Midwest. 

Multiple towns in Iowa have been devastated by storms, the small town of Greenfield basically flattened overnight. 

At least 35 are injured and five dead. 

Across the border in Mexico, a political rally was hit by a freak wind, killing nine and injuring 54 when the stage collapsed. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that the tornado in Greenfield was travelling speeds of up to 265kph, but in Mexico, they’re barely calling it a storm. 

He said that it’s tragic and bizarre. 

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At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. 

 

David MacLeod: 2/10 

Aaah paperwork aye? How to cock it up when you are barely out of the blocks. 

 

Shane Jones: 7/10

Living his best life on the West Coast, bringing back life to the coast with mining. 

 

Adrian Orr: 4/10 

I reckon he is stuck. I reckon he doesn’t have enough tools. I reckon he went too hard, too early and he doesn’t know how to get back and threats don’t work. 

 

The Warriors: 9/10 

That was as good as it gets, and we are back home this weekend for a frolic with the dolphins. 

 

Scott McLaughlin: 9/10 

He's living the dream on the front row of one of motor racing's great days. 

 

Rob Penney: 5/10 

Grace under pressure is a saying for a reason. 

 

Dairy: 8/10 

Come on the farmers! A good auction, big numbers and decent hope. We need all the help we can get. 

 

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Despite the cost-of-living crisis, one industry seemingly not hit is that of the pollster. 

There are new numbers out this week on AI. 

AI is changing the world, upending the world, taking your job, re-organising your life... or it might do none of that. 

But according to PWC's first global AI jobs survey it will solve our productivity problem. 

This is good because this country is hopeless, and productivity has had any number of debates over the years about how to rev it up and all of them have failed. 

84% of the CEOs think it will increase efficiency, which by the way isn't exactly productivity. 70% think it will significantly change the way their companies create and deliver value. 

There is a 25% uplift in AI skill demand and 69% think most of their workforce need to develop new skills. 

In these results is the clue as to why despite all the change we have seen these past few decades, the big picture hasn’t really changed. 

Yes, in certain industries tech has changed life. But we still can't educate our kids properly, planes plummet in increasing turbulence, wars are still waged, and rage and we can still only find two old farts to run for the US presidency. 

For a group of global citizens on the cusp of so much, so much doesn’t really seem to have changed. In fact, a lot of it has gotten worse. 

As each tech chapter starts to unfold, whether it’s the internet, or Google, or the ability to face time your granny, the predictions at the start of it are always bold. 

We tend to take one of our stickier problems, in this case productivity, and connect it to the new invention and tell a pollster it will all be sorted. 

Here is what we know for a fact about AI; Governments, apart from the EU, this week haven't done a thing about it. They let social media go nuts and look how that turned out. 

It uses more power than we literally have. So how productive can you actually be when the thing that will change everything can't even be run because the lights don’t work? 

That’s before you get to the other predictions about it eating us all and life as we know it is over. 

In the 0-100 game we tend to play we still seem to be suckered into believing everything new is 100, when in fact even the good stuff might, might, end up at about 60-ish. 

Come back to me in five years and let's see where we are. My bet is where we are won't be an awful lot different to where we are right now. 
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New Zealand’s tech industry continues to grow. 

It’s the second fastest growing industry in the country, the tech industry being a quickly growing industry across the world. 

Pat Kenealy, former Global CEO of IDG and Partner at Ridge Ventures, is a venture capitalist. 

A venture capitalist takes capital from institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies and invests that money into what they consider to be the most interesting or fastest growing opportunities in order to make a return. 

He told Mike Hosking that some VCs invest in ideas, some in financial progression, and some in individuals, but in the end all are looking for financial return. 

However, Kenealy said, the difficulty comes in sifting through the hundreds of ideas to find the few winners among them. 

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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Friday 24th of May, former Finance Minister Steven Joyce discussed the bullishness of the Government's speeches ahead of the Budget now that they have the money for tax cuts.   

Mike has found an unusual candidate for the Tauranga mayoralty in the form of Chudleigh Haggett. 

Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson Wrapped the Week and survey results for this number one show, and how Mike has tanked Kate's Early Edition. 

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Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson joined Mike Hosking to go through the week that was. 

Today they discussed the radio survey results. Newstalk ZB and Mike Hosking are still on top, but Kate thinks Early Edition has dipped since Mike took over... 

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