In this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.Read More
The Podcast: Episode 7: Towards the future
AI researchers around the world are trying to create a general purpose learning system that can learn to solve a broad range of problems without being taught how.Read More
Episode 7: Towards the future
AI researchers around the world are trying to create a general purpose learning system that can learn to solve a broad range of problems without being taught how. Hannah explores the journey to get there.Read More
Replay in biological and artificial neural networks
Our waking and sleeping lives are punctuated by fragments of recalled memories: a sudden connection in the shower between seemingly disparate thoughts, or an ill-fated choice decades ago that haunts us as we struggle to fall asleep.Read More
The Podcast: Episode 6: AI for everyone
While there is a lot of excitement about AI research, there are also concerns about the way it might be implemented, used and abused.Read More
Episode 6: AI for everyone
Hannah investigates the more human side of the technology, some ethical issues around how it is developed and used, and the efforts to create a future of AI that works for everyone.Read More
The Podcast: Episode 5: Out of the lab
The ambition of AI research is to create systems that can help to solve problems in the real world.Read More
Episode 5: Out of the lab
Hannah Fry meets the scientists building systems that could be used to save the sight of thousands; help us solve one of the most fundamental problems in biology, and reduce energy consumption in an effort to combat climate change.Read More
The Podcast: Episode 4: AI, Robot
Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMind’s robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers call ‘embodied AI’: robot arms that are learning tasks like picking up plastic bricks, which humans find comparatively easy.Read More
Episode 4: AI, Robot
Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMinds robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers call embodied AI.Read More