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Hey, welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indra Viscontas. This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.

We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover,

and why it matters.

Every so often here at inquiring minds,

we like to take an even deeper dive than usual,

covering a topic over the span of several

weeks. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed many ways in which we work and learn, but there's

another revolution on the horizon. And I think it's time for us to really gain a deeper understanding

of how artificial intelligence is changing not only how we work

and how we interact, but also what we know about what it means to be human. So over the course

of the next four episodes, we're going to look at artificial intelligence from many different

angles. We're going to start with the people behind the discovery of artificial intelligence

or the building of artificial intelligence, talking about the game-changing insights that have

accelerated the speed at which artificial intelligence is being incorporated in our lives in the last decade.

But this innovation has itself been decades in the making. Then we're going to talk about

how our brains construct the world, what it is about our brains that we learned and that allowed

us to then create artificial intelligence that is so much more effective today than it was many

years ago. In part three, we're going to ask how artificial

intelligence and smart machines are changing how we work, and therefore what we should be doing

to educate the workforce of the future. And finally, we're going to jump 100 years into the future,

into at least one author's fictional account of what life might be like when the age of machines is

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