Scientifically Yours | Why is Everyone Talking About Artificial Intelligence?

Will AI solve or destroy everything? Could you lose your job to AI? Will it be the solution to all of humanities problems? These are the questions that dominate conversations around artificial intelligence.

We are here to answer these questions and more – from a brief history of artificial intelligence to the collection and management of data that powers it.

Watch The Wire’s Elisha Vermani in conversation with Professor Ramesh Jain, Professor Gauhar Raza and Dr Harshvardhan Hegde on the potential harms of AI, what came before it and where it is headed next.
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Social media, AI, fake news and whatsapp forwards have come to define our times. So we are starting this show to help you cut through the mess. The Wire’s latest show on science and reason: Scientifically Yours. Watch our other episodes here

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 News Roundup
02:16 Meet the Expert
05:29 Cybernetics - The precursor to AI
07:18 First paper on AI in 1977
08:42 Temples of Science
11:26 Photoshop came out of my lab
12:21 Cancer, health and AI
17:11 Why data collection is key
18:11 Government control on data
19:16 AI: 1977 vs 2025
22:37 Summers and Winters of AI
25:14 Can AI replace doctors?
27:26 Either AI will solve everything or ruin everything
29:55 Could AI endanger life on earth?
37:00 Only Facts


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