China hides Covid data, the problem with pain

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the news, tech experts call for AI slowdown, monkeys fail to grasp magic tricks which require opposable thumbs to pull off, and why the WHO wants China to release information on the origin of Covid. Plus, according to one study, as many as 44 percent of the population suffer from chronic pain. The difficulty is, we experience pain in many different ways, making it notoriously hard to find treatments. We'll look into the possible causes of long term pain, and what scientists are doing to find solutions... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:06.0	Welcome.
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0:14.7	Without further ado, this is the naked scientist.
0:18.5	Hello and welcome to the naked scientists,
0:20.9	the show that brings you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.
0:25.0	I'm James Titco. Coming up this week, why nearly 2,000 tech experts and scientists are calling
0:32.0	for a halt to AI research? We talk to one of them.
0:35.0	Why you need hands to be fooled by a magic trick. Birds, it turns out, can see straight through them.
0:41.0	And simply inexcusable, the words of the World Health Organization
0:46.6	as it condemns China's failure to share key COVID data from the beginning of the pandemic.
0:52.4	Plus, the science of pain is on our examination table this week.
0:56.0	How does pain work?
0:58.0	And why is it usually a good thing?
1:00.0	And why for some does it become incapacitating? We'll find out.
1:05.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.coDokuk. Recently, more than 1,800 technology leaders and researchers, including technology entrepreneur
1:25.3	Elon Musk, penned an open letter urging artificial intelligence labs to pause development
1:31.2	of their most advanced systems,
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