Artificial (not so) Intelligence
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BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Artificial Intelligence – or AI for short – is often depicted in films in the shape of helpful droids, all-knowing computers or even malevolent ‘death bots’. In real life, we’re making leaps and bounds in this technology’s capabilities with satnavs, and voice assistants like Alexa and Siri making frequent appearances in our daily lives. So, should we look forward to a future of AI best friends or fear the technology becoming too intelligent. Tim Harford talks to Janelle Shane, author of the book ‘You Look Like a Thing and I Love you’ about her experiments with AI and why the technology is really more akin to an earthworm than a high-functioning ‘death bot’.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.6 | We're your weekly guide to the numbers all around us, |
| 0:05.8 | in the news and in life, and I'm Tim Halford. |
| 0:09.0 | This week, let's get cooking. |
| 0:17.6 | Basic clam frosting. |
| 0:19.5 | Frosted clams, interesting. |
| 0:23.4 | One pound of chicken. |
| 0:25.0 | Okay, chicken and clams, all right. |
| 0:29.0 | One pound of pork cubed. |
| 0:32.0 | Chicken, pork, whatever the clams. |
| 0:35.0 | Half a clove of garlic crushed. |
| 0:37.0 | Garlic, zesty, like the garlic. |
| 0:40.0 | One head, about half a cup. |
| 0:42.0 | Half a cup of head. |
| 0:44.0 | Six tablespoons, electric mixer. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh, come on. |
| 0:49.0 | With pureed lemon juice and lemon slices in a three-quart pan, |
| 0:55.0 | add vegetables, add chicken to sauce, |
| 0:58.0 | heat until sauce boils. |
| 1:01.0 | This is going to be disgusting. |
| 1:03.0 | Serve with pies. |
| 1:05.0 | Maybe not. Pies. Delicious. |
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