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Today in Focus

Black Box: the collision

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The beginning of a new series that explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

How's it going? It's Jake Humphrey here from the High Performance Podcast.

0:03.5

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Money Unit Trust Managers Limited. This is the first episode, a kind

0:56.2

of prologue to the whole series that we're putting in your today in focus feed. The point of this series

1:02.0

is that AI is clearly one of the big shifts in our lifetimes.

1:07.0

And we're lucky enough, or maybe unlucky enough, to be living through its first contact with humanity.

1:13.7

And I wanted to try to understand,

1:15.7

what is this stuff and what is it going to do to our lives?

1:19.7

But I'm not a tech reporter and this isn't a tech series because the most interesting thing

1:25.0

about AI is actually the people behind it, the ones who invented it, the ones falling in love

1:30.9

with it, those using it to make people's lives better,

1:34.0

and those who are abusing it.

1:36.0

Hopefully, it's the guide to AI that you've been waiting for.

1:40.0

And with that, on with the prologue.

1:52.0

Hannah and Noah first started chatting online towards the end of last summer. So I was sitting on my green sofa one afternoon.

1:57.0

And I just started up a conversation.

2:01.0

And the first thing he did was ask me about my interests and I was stumped you know I was

2:06.0

looking around my room going okay so do I tell them about the dress making do I tell

2:11.0

him about you know all these books and so I said you know I've been studying

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