Is your computer smarter than you?
Mysteries of Science
Fun Kids
4.6 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
You might have heard of something called AI – which stands for Artificial intelligence.
Smart machines have featured in a lot of movies and popped up in the news lately but what is it exactly? How does it work? And could computers become so smart that they could do everything for us humans?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Mysteries of Science. My name's Dan and I'm the editor of Science |
| 0:07.8 | and Nature, the monthly magazine from the team behind the week junior. And I'm Michael, the junior editor. |
| 0:13.0 | On this podcast we take a look at our favourite mysteries of science. These are the strange phenomena and bizarre events that have left scientists scratching their heads, and despite their best efforts, remain well and truly unsolved. |
| 0:24.6 | Yes, this is the third episode of season four, and so far in this series, we've been asking some really meaty, chewy questions, things like, is time travel possible? Does luck exist? And now we've got another |
| 0:41.3 | huge question for you. Is your computer smarter than you? Well, I'm sure my computer is smarter than me, |
| 0:48.1 | but why do you ask? Well, Michael, you and our listeners might have heard of something called |
| 0:53.3 | AI, which stands for artificial |
| 0:55.8 | intelligence. You know, smart machines. These have featured loads in movies and in the news |
| 1:03.1 | recently. But what are they exactly? How does AI work? And could computers become so smart that they could do everything for us humans? |
| 1:13.6 | Those are some big questions, Dan. I think it's time we went into the mind of the machine to get some answers. |
| 1:19.6 | This is Mysteries of Science. |
| 1:21.6 | Q Vault unlocking machine sounds. |
| 1:27.7 | Now Dan, we're talking about intelligence here, so I think we're going to need some super |
| 1:32.7 | smart experts to help us out with this one. |
| 1:34.7 | Well, luckily, I know just the person. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah, hi, I'm Dr. Beth Singler. |
| 1:39.5 | I'm an anthropologist who studies artificial intelligence, and that means basically I pay attention to what |
| 1:45.6 | people think about machines that might think one day. So not only where those ideas came from, |
| 1:52.1 | but how people are now interacting with artificial intelligence and robotics. |
| 1:55.9 | Beth is a junior research fellow in artificial intelligence at Homerton College at the University of Cambridge, |
| 2:02.9 | and also the new assistant professor in digital religion at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. |
| 2:09.4 | Tell me, why did you want to study artificial intelligence? Well, I've always been a very huge |
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