Is AI racing ahead too fast?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As Google's boss, Sunder Pichai, says he doesn't fully understand its AI products, tech investor Ian Hogarth tells us it's time for a public debate on the technology's future. Reporter Michael Kaloki joins us from Nairobi to explain how the legal battle between Facebook and its Kenyan moderators is intensifying. Alasdair Keane meets the amateur composer crafting the sound of all human knowledge for Wikipedia. And our Click colleague Lara Lewington tells us about the tech entrepreneur devoting his time - and money - to finding ways to extend healthy human life.
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| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
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| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.1 | Abnormal transactions. |
| 0:31.1 | Some kind of cyber attack on a bank. |
| 0:33.2 | Tens of millions of dollars. |
| 0:35.0 | Something I don't think anybody has seen before. |
| 0:37.2 | It's a cybercriminal group. |
| 0:38.8 | From the BBC World Service. |
| 0:40.6 | The Lazarus Heist is back for season two. |
| 0:42.8 | It was really like in the movies. |
| 0:44.3 | Find out more at the end of this podcast. |
| 0:47.3 | The rapid development of artificial intelligence is mind-boggling for most of us. |
| 0:51.6 | But you might expect Google boss Sundar Pichai, speaking to CBS News, |
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