AI DIY

AI is the future. Hundreds of companies are working on programs that understand your questions and give you answers, or rate your CV and offer you a job, or diagnose your X-rays and offer you treatment, or analyse the market and offer you investment advice, or understand the road and drive your car. What happens when they all join up together and achieve General AI – not just the ability to do some human tasks, but to really think and act like a human? What happens then?

Just what does our future with AI look like? Hollywood seems dead set that AIs will want to kill us. But that's just for a thrilling, 120-minute blockbuster. The tech industry in Silicon Valley is inventing really amazing AI products. But your workplace is going to procure cheap AI programs from a startup in a garage in Croydon.

In this podcast we'll meet some AI specialists who are building bits of the future, some AI sceptics who want to check who benefits from that future, and some comedians whose fresh perspectives on the human condition offer insight into how we can all adapt to a future that is less controlled by us and more controlled by the machines.