Hello and welcome to the Times Tech Podcasts where every week we unpack how technology is reshaping business culture and everyday life.

I am Danny Fawson out here in Silicon Valley.

And I'm Katie Prescott here in the very chilly and rainy city of London.

Yeah, you can hear it.

You can hear it in my voice, can't you?

I can.

I'm another London victim of the cold.

And today we're asking a slightly uncomfortable question for the tech industry.

Has AI killed software? And should we care if it has?

Last week, more than a trillion dollars. One trillion dollars was wiped off the value of the

world's biggest tech companies on both sides of the Atlantic. And suddenly, the mood music around

publicly traded tech stocks looks different.

So that is the big question we're going to ask on today's episode.

And later on the pod, our interview is with the boss of one of Britain's leading AI startups,

backed by NVIDIA, Nikola Merksich.

He's the CEO of London-based startup, PolyA.I.

And they are changing the way we interact with customer service by using AI voice assistance.

And speaking of the power of AI voice, this week, 11 Labs, who as you know are the guys who specialize in creating

AI voices that sound like humans and have recently been valued at $11 billion, had their

summit in London. And one of the amazing things they showed at the event came from a musician

from Bristol called Patrick Darling.

Now he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease three years ago and lost his ability to sing.

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