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The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI. Join Aleks and her co-host Kevin Fong for The Artifical Human from BBC Radio 4, listen on BBC Sounds. 

‘I asked myself this very question after a family member was affected by dementia. In her later years, the only person my grandmother still remembered was her husband – but he had passed away several years earlier. She asked about him every morning and finding out that he had die ...  Show more

There is an invisible, on-demand workforce of gig workers who fuel services offered by digital platforms like Google, Amazon, Uber and Microsoft. In this episode, we hear from researcher Mary L. Gray who says this kind of work—possible through the magic of AI and APIs—is becoming ...  Show more

Alex Klein tells Jonathan Moules about his ambition to transform attitudes to computing with his kit to help people of all ages make their own and write the programmes to go with them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Everything can be done with an app these days, and companies are looking more and more like they want to offer “gig” as opposed to full-time employment. So, where are we headed? Is there any proof in the pudding, or is "independent contractor" just a more merciful sounding ver ...

How much do you trust your personal data on the internet? How much do you trust your personal information with your best friend? A global pandemic has forced millions out of work, and with an increase in hacking activity that's not just overseas, Ex-hacker and Brand Ambassador fo ...  Show more