Should we fear AI?
Download MP3Artificial intelligence is a modern-day technology that will impact the way we live much as past innovations like mastering fire, and inventing the printing press, home computers and the internet changed civilisation. But what exactly is it, how does it work, and what are the opportunities and risks of its continued development? We talk to Chris Summerfield about Artificial Intelligence and his fabulous new book, “These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means” recently published by Penguin.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460891/these-strange-new-minds-by-summerfield-christopher/9780241694657
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https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460891/these-strange-new-minds-by-summerfield-christopher/9780241694657
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'At Grace and Garbo we’re passionate about vintage knitwear. From classic fair isle, to one-of-a-kind artisan hand knits and vibrant mohair. Visit our Etsy store, Grace and Garbo, for our unique collection of vintage knitwear'
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Creators and Guests
Host
Tim Coulson
Author of The Universal History of Us published by Penguin 2024 Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford EcologyEvolution, Existence, Science
Guest
Christopher Summerfield
Christopher Summerfield is Fellow by special election and principal investigator at the Summerfield lab which conducts research into how humans make decisions. Chris Summerfield was trained in psychology and neuroscience at University College London, Columbia University (New York), and the École normale supérieure (Paris). He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of Experimental Psychology, where he heads a lab focussed on understanding the computational mechanisms by which humans make decisions, and how these processes are implemented in the brain. His work, which involves a combination of computer simulations, behavioural testing, and functional brain imaging, is funded by a grants from the European Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Institute of Health.
