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Tech and AI: 7. Where is AI Working Already?
Season 2 Episode 7
Artificial Intelligence is already here.
It's being used in products and services you already use, and is working behind the scenes in medicine, tran…
2 years, 9 months ago
Tech and AI: 6. What is AI?
Season 2 Episode 6
Artificial Intelligence has been in the news constantly this year, from a chatbot that can write anything you can imagine, in any style, to scientist…
2 years, 9 months ago
Tech and AI: 5. Big Data
Season 2 Episode 5
Big data is vast, unwieldy information that is so huge that normal software traditionally used to analyse it just can't cope.
It's not new. Ever sinc…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tech and AI: 4. Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Web 3.0
Season 2 Episode 4
You might be wary of using digital currencies, but you probably already do.
Salaries, benefits and pensions are now paid direct to banks, and when yo…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tech and AI: 3. VR, AR and the Metaverse
Season 2 Episode 3
Just by putting on a headset, Virtual Reality promises to immerse you in another world, and Augmented Reality takes that world and brings it into you…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tech and AI: 2. The Cloud
Season 2 Episode 2
We all get that sinking feeling when we accidentally delete a valuable photo or document, but there's now a good chance you can find a backup copy - …
2 years, 10 months ago
Tech and AI: 1. How Do You Get Connected?
Season 2 Episode 1
You're probably reading this on a device connected to the internet, while listening to this episode. But how did the digital files that make up this …
2 years, 10 months ago
Tech and AI: Trailer
Season 2 Episode 1
Do you know your Blockchain from your Bitcoin, or your Virtual reality from your Augmented Reality? Are you clueless about AI but are worried it migh…
2 years, 10 months ago
Preview: Toast - Google Glass
From the team behind the hit Radio 4 series Sliced Bread, this is Toast. You can find more episodes in the Sliced Bread feed only on BBC Sounds, or b…
3 years ago
The Economy: 15. Energy Market
Season 1 Episode 15
The rising cost of living really brought home how those big, global economic shocks can mean some pretty bad bumps for our individual finances. Proba…
3 years, 3 months ago