Titans of Science: Mike Wooldridge
3/3/202632 min
Our Titans of Science series continues with Mike Wooldridge, Ashall Professor of Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford. He has conducted extensive work in the field of agentic AI, systems comprising multiple interacting AIs. In this episode, he tells Chris Smith what drew him to computers and AI in the first place, the pioneering work of Geoff Hinton, why ChatGPT isn't made to speak the truth, and what's in store for us as AI continues to develop... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Chris Smith· Host0:49
Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists podcast, the program that brings you the biggest breakthroughs and also talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology, and medicine. I'm Chris Smith, and today we're shining the spotlight on the transformative technology that is AI and finding out from AI pioneer and this week's Titan of Science, Mike Wooldridge, how it works, whether we can trust it, and what the future holds. [upbeat music] Oxford University's Mike Wooldridge is an AI pioneer. He struck out boldly into the uncharted waters of this