Why are people designing video games in war zones? How do you catch a catfisher? Can we trust AI lie detectors? Each week, Jordan Erica Webber is joined by experts to answer these questions on our digital culture podcast, Chips with Everything
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 21 hours
The Ratio Club and the rise of British cybernetics – tech podcast
Alex Hearn takes a look back at the ‘no professors allowed’ informal dining club The Ratio Club which laid the foundations for the British cybernetics movement and, ultimately, artificial intelligence
Ping! Psychology of tech compulsions - Chips with Everything podcast
We explore how our addiction to notifications and alerts influences how we use technology and go about our everyday lives WARNING: explicit language
How a blind runner tackles marathons – tech podcast
Simon Wheatcroft went blind at age 17. Yet today, he runs marathons. Leigh Alexander explores the incredible story of how he is able to do this with the help of some particularly innovative technology. This is a re-run of a podcast we launched in June 2016
Cascade failure: an inside look at the Y2K bug - tech podcast
On 31 December 1999, the unknowns of Y2K - or, the millennium bug - made for an uncertain New Years Eve. This week, we explore the plausibility of a mass technology failure with Martyn Thomas CBE., IT professor at Gresham College
Inside Hillary Clinton's social media campaign for the White House – tech podcast
Hillary Clinton’s former deputy social media director, Emmy Bengtson, opens up about her experience working for the Clinton camp, including the how the infamous ‘ Delete your account’ tweet came to be
State of surveillance: privacy in Donald Trump's America – tech podcast
With Barack Obama’s presidency coming to a close, Ewen MacAskill, the Guardian’s defence and intelligence correspondent, helps us explore what mass surveillance in America might look like under Donald Trump
Future thinking: will artificial intelligence overtake humans? – tech podcast
With technology developing at an increasingly rapid pace, as we head into 2017, we ask: will AI machines surpass the human race?
Constructed reality: are we living in a computer simulation? – tech podcast
Elon Musk says the likelihood that we are not actually all living in a simulated world is ‘one in billions’. In this episode of Chips with Everything, philosopher and cognitive scientist Dr David Chalmers weighs in to explore those odds
Being Siri: meet the woman behind Apple's personal assistant – tech podcast
Imagine waking up one day to find that your voice is programmed into tens of millions of mobile phones without your prior knowledge. For voiceover artist Susan Bennett, in 2011, that was her reality
Codes of love: romance in the digital age – tech podcast
With an estimated 50 million users on Tinder, how are digital platforms like this changing the way we date? And the way we think about love? Leah Green reaches out to Moira Weigel and Dr Jenny Bristow in search of answers