ChatGPT: The AI chatbot everyone is talking to
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How do you feel about talking to a computer? New AI chatbot, ChatGPT, passed one million users in just a week but what are its potential uses and limitations. We also hear from tennis icon, Billie Jean King on why she thinks tech will change the way tennis is played. Plus, with Apple extending its self-service repair to a number of European Countries, how do you feel about repairing your iPhone at home? We hear from someone who gave it a go.
(Photo: A man using a laptop talks to a chat bot. Credit: Blue Planet Studio/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
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| 0:31.0 | Hello, you're listening to TechTent from the BBC World Service with me, Zoe Kleinman. |
| 0:35.8 | In this episode, we're exploring chat GPT, the AI text generator |
| 0:40.6 | that's gone viral. It's been hailed for its human-like answers to requests for it to generate |
| 0:46.1 | everything from exam essays to poems. I asked it to be able to talk about the Scottish weather |
| 0:52.4 | in the style of the King James Bible, |
| 0:55.4 | and it generated really fantastic, really fluid, natural results. |
| 1:00.5 | According to its makers, more than a million of us have tried it out in the week since it went public. |
| 1:05.3 | But what are the limitations of this kind of tech? |
| 1:08.7 | Also coming up, we hear from former tennis world number one |
| 1:11.8 | Billy Jean King on how technology could change the game. |
| 1:15.3 | How do you get a seven-year-old interested in your sport? |
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