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Episode 4 – Bing and I

Episode 4 – Bing and I

FromBlack Box


Episode 4 – Bing and I

FromBlack Box

ratings:
Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Mar 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Two stories about the way AI could – in fact, already is – making the world better. In Montana, when Lee Johnson discovered his wife, Yokie, had cancer, he turned to AI – and was surprised by the answers he got. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts Prof Regina Barzilay’s experience with cancer has led her to build an AI system that can detect the disease years before a human
Released:
Mar 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (8)

At some point in the past few years, humanity collided with a new kind of intelligence. And things are getting strange. People are being accused of crimes by algorithms; falling in love with digital beings; pioneering new ways to fight old diseases; turning to machines for comfort in their worst moments, and using artificial intelligence to commit - and hide from - terrible crimes. The Guardian’s Michael Safi investigates the story of a technology so complex that its own creators have no idea what it is thinking, and captures a snapshot of the era when people first made contact with AI