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Date Title & Description Contributors
2023-11-29

  06 | Is super-intelligent AI around the corner?

Behind the rise of AI there's big questions about where this technology is going.Is it going to be super intelligent — and if that happens — is it going to kill us all?In our final episode, we're diving into the future and unpacking the full spectrum o...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2023-11-22

  05 | The year the world woke up to AI with a bang

2023 was the year powerful new AI technology went mainstream, with image generators and tools like ChatGPT.And people quickly started wondering where these advances were taking them.This is the story of 2023 in three chapters: the first contact, the ba...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2023-11-15

  04 | If you control AI, you control the world

AI is often portrayed as being all about technology. But it is also about money and control. Because those who control AI, may control the world. In the AI world, there are two names that keep coming up: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and its CEO...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2023-11-08

  03 | The bumpy history of driverless cars and their AI brains

When you think about a driverless car future, perhaps your mind goes to being driven around, watching movies from the backseat and drinking martinis. For over a decade, perfect driverless cars have seemed only a few years away. But in reality, they we...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2023-11-01

  02 | Locked up by AI for a crime he didn't commit

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2023-10-25

  01 | The day modern AI toppled humanity's champion

The world is experiencing a boom in artificial intelligence (AI). It's everywhere. In just a few years, computers have learned to paint a picture, write a novel, translate languages and consume the entire internet. But how we got here goes back decade...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2023-10-23

  I for one welcome... Hello AI Overlords!

2023 has been the breakout year of artificial intelligence. After decades of investment and improvement, the technology suddenly went mainstream.  For many, it was as though a miraculous machine was plonked in our midst. But AI didn't come from nowher...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2023-05-19

  REAL WILD CHILD (Part 4) — The Lost Boys

Two groups of boys on a camp in the wilds of America are pitted against each other. But the camp leaders have only one thing on their minds. Science. The mind-blowing story of a psychological experiment that crossed a line. Big time.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2023-05-19

  REAL WILD CHILD (Part 4) — The Lost Boys

Two groups of boys on a camp in the wilds of America are pitted against each other. But the camp leaders have only one thing on their minds. Science. The mind-blowing story of a psychological experiment that crossed a line. Big time.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2023-05-12

  What family secrets hide inside your cells? Epigenetics, trauma, and ancestry

What family secrets lie deep inside your cells? A story of survival against the odds, hope after the Holocaust, and the eye-opening new science of epigenetics… Can biology help you transcend the traumas of your ancestors, or forever burden you with the...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author