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🗓️ 23 January 2015
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | J-P. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacult. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute? |
0:39.8 | With every invention and every technology, we have a lot of intended benefits and intended consequences. |
0:47.2 | Simultaneously, we have many unintended consequences. |
0:50.7 | Subra Suresh, an engineer by training, is president of Carnegie Mellon University and former director of the National Science Foundation. |
0:58.6 | He spoke on January 23rd at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette de Christina. |
1:06.0 | I've also been hearing some critiques and concerns about what's going to happen as machines grow more intelligent. |
1:12.4 | As machines become more and more sophisticated, we have to be very careful about |
1:17.4 | issues of privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property. If people from one discipline and |
1:25.1 | one part of the world go and mine proprietary information from one part of the world go mine, go and mine proprietary information |
1:30.3 | from another part of the world, either legally or illegally, what are the consequences of this? |
1:35.3 | We've already seen leak of information because of breach of cybersecurity. |
1:41.3 | And I think those kinds of issues are going to be there. But in that sense, artificial |
1:45.6 | intelligence and machine learning are no different from any other new wave of technology that |
1:51.0 | has the potential to be used as well as abused. For more from Subra, Suresh, check out our website |
1:56.4 | www.com for an upcoming edition of the Science Talk podcast. |
2:02.8 | Thanks for the minute for Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Murski. |
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