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Do you use artificial intelligence at work ?

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week we're looking at artificial intelligence in the workplace - how are employers and employees using it ? An international survey provides some answers.

Also on Tech Life:

We bring you a technological solution to the problem of litter being left behind by climbers on Mount Everest.

Electric car manufacturers are rated on their human rights policies.

And find out how you can heat your home - with electric wallpaper.

Presenter: Graham Fraser Producer: Tom Quinn

(Photo: An abstract futuristic representation of the letters "AI". Credit: Getty Images)

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0:38.0

Welcome to TechLife from the BBC World Service, the programme about technology and how it

0:44.0

affects your life. I'm Graham Fraser and this week we are looking at how artificial

0:49.4

intelligence is being adopted in the workplace. Perhaps you're using it in your job already.

0:55.1

We'll have more on this in a moment.

0:57.4

Also in today's program, electric car manufacturers are rated on their human rights policies.

1:03.4

We find out how drones could be used to clean up after climbers on Mount Everest.

1:08.3

To minimize the rigs in Kumbu Icefall, we have to use technology like this kind of drone.

1:15.6

It's very good.

1:16.4

And if our testing is success, it can be a kind of revolution in our modern sector.

1:21.3

And is the future of home heating? Wait for it.

1:25.4

Electric wallpaper. One of the recurring themes when we report on artificial intelligence on tech life

1:49.5

is the impact AI will have on employment around the world.

1:54.2

So new international research into AI in the workplace caught our eye.

1:58.6

It is from generation, a global non-profit employment organisation

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