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The Naked Scientists Podcast

The future of AI

5/26/202634 min

Today, we unpack artificial intelligence. What does it do well? And how is it advancing science? This episode features the BBC's Zoe Kleinman, Oxford University's Mike Wooldridge, Raj Jena, the UK's first clinical professor of AI in radiation oncology, and Google's Annalisa Pawlosky... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Clips

AI Spots Hidden Cancers
Too Powerful To Release
Strawberry ‘R’ Stumble
Vision-Language Model Breakthrough
A-to-Z Research Leap

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Chris Smith· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] All engine running.

  2. Mike Wooldridge· Guest0:02

    [laughs] Absolute genius.

  3. Chris Smith· Host0:04

    Get this.

  4. Speaker 40:04

    Welcome.

  5. Zoe Kleinman· Guest0:05

    Welcome.

  6. Chris Smith· Host0:05

    [laughs] This is the show where we bring you- Science ... what that essentially means is- Discovery- Thoughts- Questions- Research- Technology- Unbelievable.

  7. Zoe Kleinman· Guest0:13

    Without further ado- This is The Naked Scientists.

  8. Chris Smith· Host0:16

    Hello. Welcome to The Naked Scientists podcast, the program that brings you the biggest breakthroughs and talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology, and medicine. I'm Chris Smith, and today we're gonna examine where AI is headed and how researchers are increasingly coupling different AI systems or agents together, each with different strengths and specialisms to make a much more powerful machine. [upbeat music] Emerging stocks have been doing incredibly well lately with the artificial intelligence boom pushing equities in Asia to record highs. But lots of people, including Pope Leo and some tech leaders themselves, are less happy, and they're calling for stricter regulation of the AI sector to protect jobs and privacy. So let's first hear what two experts themselves think. Zoe Kleinman is the BBC's technology editor, and Mike Wooldridge is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford, where he's devoted his research career to the subject of AI.

  9. Mike Wooldridge· Guest1:24

    AI is about getting machines to do things that currently require human or animal

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