Catherine Bohart: TL;DR - 6. Hang on - are there ghosts in this machine?

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

No time to read the news? Catherine Bohart does it for you in TL;DR. This week - Elon Musk thinks there should be regulation around AI. Is he right? Can AI really change the world, or are we just training our future robot overlords?

Times journalist Hugo Rifkind navigates the ethical minefield of artificial intelligence, while Professor Gina Neff breaks down how AI is already reshaping our lives - and the risks that come with it.

Meanwhile, in the TL;DR Sidebar, comedian Sunil Patel dives into the wild world of AI romance and discovers the perks and pitfalls of having an AI girlfriend. Will it be love at first byte?

Written by Catherine Bohart, with Madeleine Brettingham, Sarah Campbell, and Pravanya Pillay

With Ellen Patterson as Flobot

Produced by Victoria Lloyd

Recorded and Edited by David Thomas

Production Coordinator - Beverly Tagg

A Mighty Bunny production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	Your Dead to Me is back. Yes, we are the comedy podcast that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
0:06.0	We should always be the stupidest person in the room because then you're in the right room.
0:09.5	This series will be excavated evidence on a pioneering paleontologist,
0:13.2	will learn about LGBTQ life in Weymah, Germany,
0:16.1	and will take a novel look at the history of printing.
0:18.6	So informative.
0:20.0	Join me, Greg Jennerner, and Gallant guests
0:22.2	like Robin Ince, Ed Gamble and Sarah Pasco.
0:24.7	I'm aging myself now like a dinosaur fossil.
0:27.6	There used to be only four channels.
0:29.2	You're dead to me. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds.
0:34.0	Music Radio Podcasts.
0:37.0	Welcome to TLDR, the show that takes the news, does the pointy finger guns and says,
0:41.0	hey girl, I'd share like a current affair with you.
0:43.4	I'm Catherine Bellhart and we're coming to you from the Museum of Comedy,
0:52.8	always a super chill feeling to know that your job is now in a museum.
0:56.4	You know, where extinct stuff goes.
0:58.6	So that's fun.
0:59.8	The trouble with the news is that everyone's a bit too classy and attached.
1:03.0	Hey news readers, since Wena's pretending you're above stuff made for juicy entertainment,
1:07.0	were Colleen Rooney and Rebecca Vardy rising above stuff? No.
1:10.0	But how do we pick which story should a deep dive into and which stories to sort of belly flop on before doggy paddling back to our sun lounger?
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