Matt Barrie

Mar 24, 2025 | medium.com | Matt Barrie

Matt Barrie¬∑Follow44 min read¬∑--A year ago AI was just a curiosity ‚ÄĒ now it‚Äôs a full-blown Category 5 hurricane tearing the roof off business, politics, and reality itself. The initial blast hit with ChatGPT and NVIDIA‚Äôs trillion-dollar surge, but that was merely the outer band. Headlines went quiet ‚ÄĒ like flags suddenly falling limp as we entered the eye of the storm ‚ÄĒ an eerie lull as the explosive cost of scaling foundational models stalled major breakthroughs.

Dec 5, 2024 | medium.com | Matt Barrie

Matt Barrie·Follow55 min read·--Speech to Northern Beaches Liberal PartyWhere would you begin? First, you’d need to identify the pillars that hold any strong country together: energy security, industrial capacity, financial stability, social cohesion, cultural unity, sustainable demographics, food security, defensive capability, strategic independence and sovereign identity. These aren’t just metrics on a spreadsheet — they’re the foundations that separate prosperous nations from failed states.

Jul 10, 2024 | medium.com | Matt Barrie

For those that would prefer to watch, a speech based on this essay is here:https://x.com/matt_barrie/status/1829438530055217330“Mesmerizing, one of the best critiques of Australia’s immigration policy in a generation. Erudite, brave and uncompromising.” — former Chief Economist ACCI, Burchell Wilson“This is the most comprehensive take down of what’s going on in Australia I have ever seen.

Dec 12, 2023 | medium.com | Matt Barrie

Back in July, in AI know what you did last summer, I wrote:I expect that within twelve months you’ll be able to type in a string of text like ‘Make a movie Top Gun 17 where Tom Cruise and Vladimir Putin have a dogfight over Paris’ and a coherent, high quality, feature length movie will pop out in a couple of minutes. We look to be pretty much on schedule for that prediction. Netflix is about to know what it felt like to be Wikipedia when ChatGPT came along.

Aug 21, 2023 | medium.com | Matt Barrie

[This is a long read, I was also interviewed on this essay on the exceptional Macrovoices podcast recently if you’d like to listen:https://www.macrovoices.com/1230-macrovoices-390-matt-barrie-the-awesome-power-and-risk-of-artificial-intelligencehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macro-voices/id1079172742?i=1000625553151Feedback on my interview:“One of the most important podcasts I have heard.” @SteveBigpond“(Macrovoices) This was one of your best podcasts. A strong contender for #1 actually.