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A conversation about the potential and limits of AI agents with the co-founder of Sierra, an agentic customer-service company. Bret Taylor, who is also the chairman of OpenAI, tells Andrew Palmer about the imperfections of the technology, the competition between model-makers and ...  Show more

How should employees and bosses be using the technology right now? And how should all of us prepare for the future?Andrew Palmer returns for a third season of Boss Class. This time it’s all about AI. In the first episode, he starts introducing AI into his daily work routines, and ...  Show more

Scientists are making considerable progress in the race to <a href="https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2023/09/25/slowing-human-ageing-is-now-the-subject-of-serious-research?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discov ...

As life moves progressively online, it is becoming increasingly possible to keep people alive in the digital sense. Tech companies are starting to use AI to simulate the personalities of the dead from the data they’ve left behind. The Economist’s science correspondent ...

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Only at the end of the year can a full appraisal be made of the figures—and landmarks—that the world has lost. From <a href="https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/04/26/harry-belafonte-delighted-and-challenged-a-divided-america?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&ut ...