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The Bottom Line
BBC
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Machines now have the ability to write novels, create works of art, or compose original songs thanks to artificial intelligence. In future the technology could be used to discover drugs, design entire buildings, or come up with new materials.
So how should businesses respond to the evolution of AI, most embodied by the AI chatbot ChatGPT? Evan Davis and guests discuss its potential for creating new products and increasing efficiency, as well as the risks involved in handing machines even more power.
GUESTS
Priya Lakhani, CEO, CENTURY Tech Scott Petty, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone and Colin Murdoch, Chief Business Officer, DeepMind
PRODUCTION TEAM
Producer: Simon Tulett Editor: China Collins Sound: Neil Churchill and Graham Puddifoot Production Co-ordinators: Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to the bottom line, the program where we explore the biggest jabber and challenges facing businesses today. |
| 0:10.8 | What the heck? Who is that? |
| 0:12.6 | In this episode, we'll be discussing the exciting and rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence or AI, |
| 0:18.1 | and its jabber potential to transform the business landscape. |
| 0:21.5 | All right, well, I'm definitely going to intervene here because that was not me, nor indeed |
| 0:26.1 | did I write those words. |
| 0:27.4 | But I have with me, bottom line producer Simon, who will tell us what's going on here. |
| 0:32.4 | So, Evan, this is an episode about AI, obviously, so I thought I'd take the unenviable challenge of |
| 0:38.9 | creating an AI Evan. So what I did was use a chat bot called ChatGPT that we're going to hear |
| 0:45.6 | about in the episode to write part of the introduction to the show and then another piece of |
| 0:50.2 | software to essentially mimic your voice. I think if listeners were listening carefully, they will have noticed the word jabber. |
| 0:57.3 | It's not a word that often comes up. |
| 0:59.5 | Why did AI refer to jabber? |
| 1:02.1 | Yes, Jabba. |
| 1:03.2 | So the piece of software I used to mimic your voice was a free edition, which only came with |
| 1:09.0 | a certain number of words to get the full gamut of the English |
| 1:12.7 | language you had to pay. And so, yeah, there is the occasional jabber. It puts jabber in |
| 1:17.9 | as a placeholder. Well, look, let's hear a bit more of what it thinks this programme's about. |
| 1:21.9 | As companies across industries increasingly invest in AI technologies to streamline operations, |
| 1:27.2 | personalised customer experiences, |
| 1:29.3 | and gain a competitive edge, the opportunities for innovation and Jabber are seemingly endless. |
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