Introducing Tech Tonic: Trust me, I’m a robot
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
As a News Briefing special we present Tech Tonic, our FT audio deep dive into the promises and perils of artificial intelligence.
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Tech Tonic S2 E2: Trust me, I’m a robot
What does it mean for AI to augment human perception? In this episode the FT’s Madhumita Murgia takes us to a small village in rural India where AI is being used to help doctors better diagnose tuberculosis and looks at a healthcare system where it is helping patients who doctors may have overlooked.
Alice Fordham is senior producer. Josh Gabert Doyon is assistant producer. Oluwakemi Aladesuyi and Liam Nolan are the development producers. Sound design and mixing by Sean McGarrity. Cheryl Brumley is the executive producer for this series. You heard the song Down in the Coalmine by The Ian Campbell Folk Group, as well as original scoring composed by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | Change is happening all around us. |
| 0:07.0 | At Accenture, we're helping businesses focus on not only what's in front of them, |
| 0:13.0 | but what's all around them. |
| 0:16.0 | Because when you see value in every direction, |
| 0:20.0 | you create value in every direction. |
| 0:23.0 | That's 360-degree value. |
| 0:27.0 | Accenture. |
| 0:28.0 | Let there be change. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi there from the Financial Times. |
| 0:32.0 | This is Mark Filipino. |
| 0:33.0 | Today is Monday, July 5th. |
| 0:35.0 | And normally this feed brings you the FT news briefing. |
| 0:38.0 | But we're taking today off on the back of the Independence Day weekend. |
| 0:41.0 | Instead, we're bringing you the FT's tectonic podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Now, if you're a regular news briefing listener, |
| 0:47.0 | then you probably heard me talking about artificial intelligence |
| 0:50.0 | where the FT's innovation editor, John Thornhill recently. |
| 0:53.0 | He gave a preview of episode one of the new season of tectonic. |
| 0:56.0 | It's our audio deep dive into the promises and the perils of artificial intelligence. |
| 1:01.0 | Now, we're bringing you episode two. |
| 1:03.0 | Over the course of the show, John and other FT journalists explore the philosophical, ethical, |
| 1:08.0 | and technical cruxes of AI's expanding role in medical research, modern warfare, and investments. |
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