Black Box: Bing and I – episode 5

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Two stories about the way AI could – in fact, already is – making the world better. In Montana, when Lee Johnson discovered his wife, Yokie, had cancer, he turned to AI – and was surprised by the answers he got. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts Prof Regina Barzilay’s experience with cancer has led her to build an AI system that can detect the disease years before a human

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.7	Today on Black Box, two stories about the way artificial intelligence could and already is,
0:15.6	making the world better.
0:23.9	No one locks their door around here.
0:25.5	It's all that typical Montana stuff.
0:28.1	Lee Johnson runs a restaurant in the town of FishTale, Montana.
0:31.7	It's a hundred-yard town.
0:33.2	You could frisbee toss from one end to the other.
0:36.5	He spends his time off hiking and fishing and hunting.
0:39.9	He's not really a tech guy.
0:41.8	That's one of the things I love about here is if I go, like when I go out cycling usually,
0:45.7	I don't think I've ever seen another cyclist on these roads.
0:48.5	And when he first told me his story, I wasn't really sure where AI fit in.
0:53.2	A lot of people around here make their own guns.
0:56.0	Very popular pastime around here.
0:58.0	My best friend loves making guns for him and his wife.
1:01.0	Then he told me about this one night after work when he was having a few beers,
1:07.0	in a period when he was really struggling, and he had this encounter that changed him.
1:14.3	It involved, and this was unexpected, the Microsoft search engine Bing,
1:19.8	which last year was upgraded to include the latest version of ChatGPT.
1:25.9	And this machine did something for him in this period of crisis that up till then, no person ever had.
1:35.3	I think Bing and I cross paths in different trajectories in our life.
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