The Intelligence: what AI could mean for the world’s poorest
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Generative artificial intelligence dominated conversations at Davos this year. How might education and healthcare be transformed as the technology reaches the developing world? The Notre Dame Cathedral is set to reopen this year. Come with us to visit the site in Paris (10:11). And, how lovely is your language (18:05)?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm Oire Ogunbei. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:14.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.7 | When the spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral went up in flames five years ago, |
| 1:26.7 | Parisians gasped and wept, and money |
| 1:29.4 | poured in for its reconstruction. Our correspondent visits the site which is astonishingly on |
| 1:35.1 | track to reopen this year. And it's kind of intuitive that some languages simply sound nicer |
| 1:42.5 | than others. But when our correspondent dug into a new survey that used a range of languages, |
| 1:48.1 | he found a surprising lack of variation in how lovely respondents rated them. |
| 1:59.3 | But first. How do you go about improving the lives of the world's poorest? |
| 2:14.9 | Aid and development agencies have tried a host of things, and some have worked better than others. |
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