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Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.

Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist podcast, the program that brings you the biggest breakthroughs and talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology and medicine.

I'm Chris Smith, and today we're going to examine where AI is headed and how researchers are increasingly coupling different AI systems or agents together, each with different strengths and specialisms to make a much more powerful machine.

Emerging stocks have been doing incredibly well lately with the artificial intelligence boom

pushing equities in Asia to record highs. But lots of people, including Pope Leo and some tech

leaders themselves, are less happy and they're calling for stricter regulation of the AI sector

to protect jobs and privacy. So let's first hear what two experts themselves think.

Zoe Kleinman is the BBC's technology editor and Mike Wardridge is a professor of computer science

at the University of Oxford where he's devoted his research career to the subject of AI.

AI is about getting machines to do things that currently require human or animal brains or

potentially nervous systems and potentially human bodies.

And one of the weird things about AI is that lots of things that we find very, very

difficult, AI has been very good at for a long time.

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