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Be My AI: When innovation and privacy clash

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

An AI-powered tool helped blind people make sense of the world - then ran into privacy concerns. Be My AI user, the BBC's Sean Dilley, in Washington DC, tells us what happened next.

A rare interview with the boss of Spotfiy, Daniel Ek, who tells us there is a place for AI in music making.

Plus, reporter Marc Cieslak tells us about second thumbs and brain hacking, as he explores the mind boggling world of neural interface technology.

(Photo: A blind man using a mobile phone. Credit: Agrobacter/Getty Images)

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0:43.5

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0:49.5

podcasts. Welcome back to TechLife with me, Zoe Kleinman. On this show, we want to find out and explain how technology is reshaping the world around us. You'd struggle to think of a clearer example of that than this.

1:06.0

Take picture. Please meet it. It's going to take a few moments to interpret what's in front of it.

1:12.0

There is a street with parked cars.

1:14.7

There is a silver servant, a white van.

1:16.9

That's an AI-powered app that uses a phone camera to describe the world for blind and partially sighted people.

1:23.7

Then concerns were raised about it capturing people's faces.

1:27.8

The BBC's Sean Dilley, who you heard there, will join us in a moment to explain what happened next.

1:32.9

But that's not all.

1:34.3

We hear from the boss of Spotify on the future of music streaming.

1:38.4

And...

1:39.2

Programming can be done in person, but there's also the possibility of programming through the internet,

1:44.9

remote programming. So if that were to fall into the wrong hands,

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