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Moving beyond the fear of AI stealing our jobs, how do we best work with AI? In this episode, we explore whether AI tools are making us more or less productive and hear what employers are looking for…
Explore how AI is changing family life. Jon Whittle dives into how AI is being used for everything from deciphering baby cries to personalising bedtime stories. But with this new technology comes new…
Can AI help us cheat death? Our final episode in this series explores AI at the end of our lives and beyond. We delve into how AI impacts aging, forensic science and criminal investigations, death ri…
Discover how AI is reshaping dating and relationships. From chatbot partners to digital replicas and dating apps, AI is revolutionising how we connect. As we spend more of our lives online, we explor…
Jon Whittle kicks off our season, exploring how AI is transforming the miracle of life. We meet Briony who shares her firsthand experience with AI-assisted embryo selection during IVF. We crack the c…
Struggling and overwhelmed teachers. Bored and disengaged students. AI is shaking things up in the classroom. Will AI replace teachers or help them manage their increasing workloads? Will students us…
How would the discovery of life on a nearby planet change our understanding of life on Earth? AI is playing a pivotal role in space exploration, from analysing sound waves within stars to mapping gal…
Since the origin of data analytics in baseball, artificial intelligence now features in almost every sport. We see it in the precision Hawk-Eye technology that assists umpires with line calls, the pe…
This episode takes us from AI identifying birds in the bush and fish in the sea to helping locate destructive Crown-of-thorns starfish in the Great Barrier Reef. We’ll hear a number of examples of ho…
From smart watches to mammogram readers, artificial intelligence is revolutionising health care. In this episode, we’ll hear from a radiologist who is using AI scanners to increase the efficiency of …
AI-written music has won Eurovision contests, computer-generated art is exhibited in galleries, and deep learning systems are even writing films and novels. So when it comes to creativity, do humans …
Jon Whittle busts the Hollywood sci-fi myth that artificial intelligence is out to replace humans. We learn the history of AI from WW2 code-breaking machines to computer chess players that beat world…