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Woman's Hour

The Offbeat Sari exhibition, Iran latest, coldwater swimming and is AI pushing the boundaries of art?

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Offbeat Sari exhibition will include 90 examples of innovative saris – including the first ever sari worn at the Met Gala and a foil jersey sari worn by Lady Gaga. Krupa Padhy talks to the exhibition's curator Priya Khanchandani. BBC Journalist Faranak Amidi brings us the latest from Iran and we look at LOAB, the internet character created by artificial intelligence. Described as having the 'eerie face of a middle-aged woman with dead eyes, a vacant stare and a disturbing grimace', she's become an online viral phenomenon. Steph Swanson, the artist who created LOAB, explains her work and we hear from Tabitha Goldstaub, who chairs the UK’s Artificial Intelligence Council, and Mhairi Aitken, from the Alan Turing Institute. In February 2003, a woman called Lana Clarkson was found dead at the Hollywood mansion of the iconic music producer Phil Spector. It was a global news sensation, with Spector insisting that the 40-year-old actor – whom he had only met that evening - had killed herself with his gun. A new Sky documentary series called Spector re-examines what happened almost 20 years ago, and speaks to her family and friends for the first time. And are you one of those people who loves jumping into the sea or a river at this time of year to feel the benefit of cold water swimming? Well, if so, the British Medical Journal has said that swimmers should be told more about the risks of a lung condition known as SIPE - swimming-induced pulmonary oedema. Dr Ruth Williamson is a cold water swimmer and Acting Chief Medical Officer at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. She tells us how to spot SIPE and what to do about it, if you fear you have it. Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Michael Millham Photo Credit; : Bikramjit Bose

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

Hello, this is Krupa Party and you're listening to the Woman's Hour Podcast.

0:10.2

Hello and thank you for joining us.

0:12.6

This morning I'm going to introduce you to a viral creation by artificial intelligence

0:18.0

that's being called LOB.

0:20.0

LOB is an unsettling image of a woman with red cheeks and dark, hollow eyes

0:26.3

generated by the Swedish artist Steph Swanson.

0:30.2

Steph used what are being called negative prompts in an online programme to make her.

0:35.2

We're going to make sense with all with the help of two experts in the AI sector,

0:39.7

Tabitha Goldstab and Dr Variatkin.

0:42.6

We also want to explore whether AI is pushing the boundaries of art.

0:47.4

There's a picture of LOB up on our Twitter feed if you'd like to take a look.

0:51.4

I should warn you, you may find it disturbing, but we are keen to get your reaction.

0:57.2

You can text a programme that number is 84844 over on social media.

1:01.8

We're at BBC Woman's Hour.

1:04.1

You can of course email us via our website and you can send us a WhatsApp or Voitenoat audio

1:09.6

message using the number 03700104444.

1:15.5

And we will turn our attention to cold water swimming and the rare but associated risk

1:20.8

of a lung condition known as SIP.

1:23.7

Dr Ruth Williamson is a winter weather swimmer herself and she will talk us through the

1:28.5

details.

1:29.5

Maybe you're a cold water swimmer with questions of your own, do get in touch.

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