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Machines Like Us

The Globe and Mail

56 episodes

Machines Like Us is a technology show about people.

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We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction will become our reality: robot best friends, bespoke gene editing, brain implants that make us smarter.

Every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future. He’ll speak with entrepreneurs building world-changing technologies, lawmakers trying to ensure they’re safe, and journalists and scholars working to understand how they’re transforming our lives.

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  1. The Real World Cost of AI

    · 47 min · Episode 5

    It seems like the loudest voices in AI often fall into one of two groups. There are the boomers – the techno-optimists – who think that AI is going to bring us into an era of untold prosperity. And then there are the…

  2. Can AI Bring Humanity Back to Health Care?

    · 34 min · Episode 4

    Think about the last time you felt let down by the health care system. You probably don’t have to go back far. In wealthy countries around the world, medical systems that were once robust are now crumbling. Doctors and…

  3. The Battle for Your Brain

    · 40 min · Episode 3

    Earlier this year, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink successfully installed one of their brain implants in a 29 year old quadriplegic man named Noland Arbaugh. The device changed Arbaugh’s life. He no longer needs a mouth…

  4. Can AI Companions Cure Loneliness?

    · 35 min · Episode 2

    When Eugenia Kuyda saw Her for the first time – the 2013 film about a man who falls in love with his virtual assistant – it didn’t read as science fiction. That’s because she was developing a remarkably similar…

  5. Maria Ressa saw the dangers of social media. AI might be worse.

    · 45 min · Episode 1

    In the last few years, artificial intelligence has gone from a novelty to perhaps the most influential technology we’ve ever seen. The people building AI are convinced that it will eradicate disease, turbocharge…

  6. Introducing Machines Like Us

    · 2:37 · Trailer

    We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction will become our reality: robot best friends, bespoke gene editing,…

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