The AI search race is on
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Three big players in internet search have announced plans to integrate AI but can Google and Baidu rival Microsoft's team-up with ChatGPT? We also explore how old pictures and video are being shared online as from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. And why officials in the UK and US have named seven Russian men as being behind some of the most infamous cyber crime groups of recent years.
(Photo: Microsoft Bing search demonstration at its launch event. Credit: Jason Redmond/AFP)
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| 0:41.3 | Welcome. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Welcome to TechTent on the BBC World Service with me, Zoe Kleinman. Did you see all the |
| 0:46.8 | AI chatbot news this week? Google and Microsoft went head to head and it's always fun to watch |
| 0:52.4 | the Giants lock horns, but of course |
| 0:54.1 | it's not all about them. We're exploring who could win the race to incorporate artificial |
| 0:59.0 | intelligence into how we search the internet. Is Microsoft in the lead by snapping up |
| 1:04.3 | chat GPT? They're definitely trying to outdo each other. I think Google is in a position right now |
| 1:10.1 | where it's actually in a |
| 1:12.2 | very tough spot because this is actually quite a risky technology to be integrating into something |
| 1:17.5 | as important as search. Also coming up, we'll find out about the videos being shared online, |
| 1:22.2 | apparently of the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria that are actually |
| 1:27.1 | miscaptions from before it took place. |
| 1:32.2 | Over the past few months on TechT, we've talked a lot about ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that was launched to the public two months ago. |
| 1:40.9 | It's gone down a storm with people asking it to do all sorts of things from |
| 1:44.8 | writing essays and songs to scripts for radio programmes like this. Was this written by human |
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