Summary
Imagine a world in which AI servants are at your beck and call. They work for you, shop for you, book your travel and help organise your family life. It's called Agentic AI. And it's coming. A senior figure at Amazon tells us how they see AI agents changing our lives.
Also this week on Tech Life: Kenya's plastic waste problem is being turned into a 3D-printed teaching solution. And a charity is helping to save animals from extinction by freezing their cells.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zing Singh. And I'm Simon Jack. And Good Bad Billionaire is back. It's the podcast |
| 0:06.1 | exploring the lives and livelihoods of some of the world's richest people. But this time there's a twist. |
| 0:11.3 | On Good Bad Dead billionaire, we are looking back on the lives of some titans of U.S. industry. |
| 0:16.4 | Like the first ever billionaire, John D. Rockefeller. The founder of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford. |
| 0:21.8 | And the First Lady of Wall Street, Hetty Green. |
| 0:24.2 | And Simon and I are asking you if they were good, bad or just another billionaire. |
| 0:28.3 | Good bad billionaire. |
| 0:29.4 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.9 | Hello and welcome to TechLife, the program about technology and how it's changing all our lives. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm Chris Valence. This week, a senior figure at Amazon tells us why the era of |
| 0:42.9 | agentic AI will soon be upon us. Agentic what? Fear not. All will be explained. |
| 0:49.3 | We go to Kenya to hear how plastic trash can be turned into 3D printed teaching materials. |
| 0:55.3 | After collecting the plastic waste, we partnered up with a recycler, a local recycler in Mombasa, |
| 1:00.1 | to basically turn it into plastic pellets, recycled pellets. |
| 1:03.4 | And can we save endangered species by freezing their cells? |
| 1:07.8 | We can buy a bank their genetics in a way that we can bring them back to life |
| 1:12.5 | in 10, 20 or a thousand years' time. It's quite incredible now what this technology can do. |
| 1:40.9 | Thank you. Well, we like to say tech life is all about the tech affecting your life. |
| 1:44.9 | And the tech we're going to cover next certainly promises to do that. |
| 1:51.3 | Imagine a world in which dozens of AI servants were at your beck and call. They'll work for you, |
| 1:56.5 | shop for you, book your travel, help organise your family life, maybe even assist with your healthcare or the purchase of a house. Well, that's coming, and it's called Agentic AI. |
| 2:03.2 | Amazon Web Services, whose systems underpin many of the online businesses we all use, |
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