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ChatGPT raises old and new concerns about AI, with Francesca Rossi
Season 1 Episode 29
Our guest in this episode is Francesca Rossi. Francesca studied computer science at the University of Pisa in Italy, where she became a professor, be…
3 years, 2 months ago
ChatGPT has woken up the House of Commons, with Tim Clement-Jones
Season 1 Episode 28
In this episode, Tim Clement-Jones brings us up to date on the reactions by members of the UK's House of Commons to recent advances in the capabiliti…
3 years, 2 months ago
Assessing the AI duopoly, with Jeff Ding
Season 1 Episode 27
Advanced AI is currently pretty much a duopoly between the USA and China. The US is the clear leader, thanks largely to its tech giants – Google, Met…
3 years, 2 months ago
Peter James, best-selling crime-writer and transhumanist
Season 1 Episode 26
Peter James is one of the world’s most successful crime writers. His "Roy Grace" series, about a detective in Brighton, England, near where Peter liv…
3 years, 2 months ago
Curing aging: $100B? with Andrew Steele
Season 1 Episode 25
Our guest in this episode is a Briton who is based in Berlin, namely Andrew Steele. Earlier in his life Andrew spent nine years at the University of …
3 years, 3 months ago
Overcoming limitations, with Natasha Vita-More
Season 1 Episode 24
It is nearly 40 years since our guest in this episode, pioneering transhumanist Natasha Vita-More, created the first version of the Transhumanist Man…
3 years, 3 months ago
Presenting gedanken experiments, with David Brin
Season 1 Episode 23
Our guest in this episode is the scientist and science fiction author Davin Brin, whose writings have won the Hugo, Locus, Campbell, and Nebula Award…
3 years, 3 months ago
Inventing the future of computing, with Alessandro Curioni
Season 1 Episode 22
OpenAI's ChatGPT and picture generating AI systems like MidJourney and Stable Diffusion have got a lot more people interested in advanced AI and talk…
3 years, 3 months ago
Assessing Quantum Computing, with Ignacio Cirac
Season 1 Episode 21
Quantum computing is a tough subject to explain and discuss. As Niels Bohr put it, “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it…
3 years, 3 months ago
Questioning the Fermi Paradox, with Anders Sandberg
Season 1 Episode 20
In the summer of 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi and some colleagues at the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico were walking to lunch, and casually discuss…
3 years, 4 months ago