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Babbage from The Economist

by The Economist

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22.05.2024 • 00:45:35

Artificial intelligence is already making its mark in health care—but new, bigger, models promise to improve how patients access services, help doctor...

Babbage: Teens and their screens

01.05.2024 • 00:42:16

Ever since there have been smartphones and social media, there have been concerns about how they might be affecting children. Over the past decade, do...

Babbage: The science that built the AI revolution—part one

06.03.2024 • 00:42:57

What is intelligence? In the middle of the 20th century, the inner workings of the human brain inspired computer scientists to build the first “thinki...

Babbage: The hunt for dark matter

21.02.2024 • 00:43:47

Dark matter is thought to make up around a quarter of the universe, but so far it has eluded detection by all scientific instruments. Scientists know ...

Babbage: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella on their vision for AI

24.01.2024 • 00:45:00

OpenAI and Microsoft are leaders in generative artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI has built GPT-4, one of the world’s most sophisticated large langu...

Babbage: Science book club

20.12.2023 • 00:42:23

Books are the original medium for communicating science to the masses. In a holiday special, producer Kunal Patel asks Babbage’s family of corresponde...

Babbage: Fei-Fei Li on how to really think about the future of AI

22.11.2023 • 00:38:58

A year ago, the public launch of ChatGPT took the world by storm and it was followed by many more generative artificial intelligence tools, all with r...