Lara Lewington on AI
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
The Midpoint
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We’ve got another expert episode for you, and this time we’re tackling a subject that’s been making the headlines of late… AI! We’ve all heard about it, but what do most of us really know about artificial intelligence beyond the scary stories? How is it going to change our everyday lives, and how prevalent is it already? Gabby is putting all your questions to tech journalist and AI commentator, Lara Lewington.
Lara has presented and reported for the BBC’s flagship technology programme, Click, since 2011, and she recently made A Documentary: By ChatGPT for BBC Radio 4. Lara explains some of the pitfalls of AI, as well as some of the ways we might be able to use it to our advantage when it comes to things like healthcare, drug discovery, and policing social media. She also explains what data is harvested from us already (often unknowingly), and how personal data trackers are being used to help prevent illnesses and increase longevity – things which are all made possible by AI.
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| 0:52.5 | Hello and welcome back to the midpoint. |
| 0:59.8 | This is the latest in our series of special expert episodes, and today we're tackling a big topic, |
| 1:05.2 | AI. Artificial intelligence is all the rage, isn't it, at the moment? A bit of a buzz phrase. |
| 1:10.8 | But our guest today has been talking about AI long before the rest of us. |
| 1:14.7 | Laura Lewington is a tech journalist and AI commentator who's presented and reported for the BBC's |
| 1:19.7 | flagship technology programme, Click, since 2011. So I'm hoping to learn a lot more about AI, |
| 1:27.2 | and maybe as well, a sage some of those fears that seem to be building in the media that AI is |
| 1:32.4 | going to take over the world in two years' time, and find out exactly what good can come from AI, |
| 1:37.6 | as well as the pitfalls and the negatives that we should be watching out for. |
| 1:41.2 | So let's go speak to Laura. |
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