Summary
As DeepSeek shocked the world, we speak to an AI expert who worked at a Chinese AI firm. We hear about a new battery exchange system for EVs in Addis Ababa. And imagine a world without potholes - we've got a scientist on who is working on self-healing roads.
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Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Imran Rahman-Jones Editor: Monica Soriano
(Photo: The logo of the Alibaba AI model Qwen, a blue triangle with Chinese characters beneath. Credit: Getty Images.)
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to Tech Life, the program about how tech affects all of our lives, wherever we live. |
| 0:34.3 | In the last week or so, the world has woken up to the strength of AI research coming |
| 0:39.3 | out of China. As the Deepseek AI model stormed up the App Store charts, many of the big |
| 0:45.2 | AI firms, particularly in the US, were caught off guard. So what's it like to work in AI for a |
| 0:51.5 | Chinese company? We find out. |
| 1:02.2 | There is a very clear business, economical incentive to work according to the manifest and the guidelines by the government. That's what I saw. |
| 1:06.5 | And how do you encourage electric vehicles in a city where access to charging infrastructure is limited? |
| 1:12.6 | A company in Addis Ababa thinks it's found a solution. |
| 1:15.7 | They can come to any of the Dudai battery swapping stations |
| 1:20.0 | and be able to swap out their empty batteries without having to worry about whether it's going to get them to the next work or to their homes. |
| 1:29.3 | And imagine, just imagine, if potholes were a thing of the past. |
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