Can technology read our mind?
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
How does our brain process language? We speak to an expert who is using technology to turn narrative thoughts into text. Also on the show, what is happening in our brains when we switch languages? And what are the positives and perils of technology and translation?
Also on the show, we look at internet connectivity in incredibly remote areas, whether carbon capture is realistic, and we continue to explore different foods from around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | In 2019, we began investigating the disappearance of Dr. Ruzha Ignatva. |
| 0:08.0 | I believe we are a very special network. |
| 0:10.0 | A scammer who stole billions from investors around the world. |
| 0:15.0 | She's on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. |
| 0:18.0 | And now, we have some unmissable updates. She has money and when you have |
| 0:23.0 | money you have power. Join me, Jamie Bartlett, as the hunt for the missing crypto queen continues. |
| 0:29.5 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. Lives Less Ordinary is the podcast from the BBC World Service, bringing |
| 0:36.5 | you extraordinary personal stories from around the globe. |
| 0:40.5 | Search for Lives Less Ordinary, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:50.1 | My mum was a French translator. |
| 0:53.0 | Her side of the family are all linguists. Aunt Helena taught |
| 0:56.5 | university-level German. My grandfather loved German, Arabic and Zagawa. Cousin Maggie still does |
| 1:03.4 | amazing simultaneous translations at the European Parliament. I don't know if there's a genetic aspect |
| 1:09.2 | to ability with language, but if there is, I must have inherited my there's a genetic aspect to ability with language, |
| 1:13.8 | but if there is, I must have inherited my fathers because, despite many school lessons and many, many evening classes, |
| 1:18.4 | like him, I'm fluent only in English. |
| 1:21.9 | The shame. And what a world I'm missing out on. |
| 1:25.5 | I'm Marnie Chesterton from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:28.7 | This is Unexpected Elements. |
| 1:43.9 | And this show has its own general assembly. |
| 1:47.7 | From New Haven in Connecticut, it's Yang Yang Chen, |
| 1:51.2 | a fellow at Yale's Paul Sai China Center and particle physicist. |
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