4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Are privacy fears over Alexa's new ability to offer medical advice from the UK's National Health Service justified? Plus, how super-car maker Aston Martin thinks it can persuade its customers to swap the roar of a V12 engine for the near-silence of electric propulsion. And we hear about the disturbing rise of "stalkerware" apps. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Chris Fox, and special guest Charlotte Jee from the MIT Tech Review.
(Image: An Amazon Echo smart speaker on a coffee table alongside an ear thermometer and some pills, Credit: Andrew Matthews/ PA Wire).
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0:54.7 | I'm Rory Katelyn Jones, and this week we asked two important questions about autonomous technology. |
1:00.1 | Should you be asking a voice-activated speaker intimate questions about your health? |
1:05.1 | And is it important that the scientists behind AI systems actually understand how they work? |
1:11.9 | We'll also be looking at how the luxury car brand, Aston Martin, is trying to adapt to the era of electric motoring. Joining me |
1:18.0 | this week is BBC Technology Reporter Chris Fox. Hi, Chris. Hi, everyone. And my special guest is Charlotte |
1:23.6 | G from MIT Technology Review. Welcome, Charlotte. Hi, good afternoon. Good to have you here. Here's the flavour of what's coming up. |
1:35.4 | What I mean by accidental autonomy is where somebody designed a system. They didn't mean to be |
1:40.5 | autonomous, but it is. I believe what's happened with the Boeing 737 Max |
1:45.5 | recently is a very good example of that. All of that coming up. Now, first, where do you turn |
1:54.1 | for health advice online? In the UK, you can now ask Amazon's Alexa voice-powered assistant |
2:00.7 | and get answers from the National |
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