Is this show fake?
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Tech Life created a fake podcast using a new AI tool from Google Labs, and we spoke to the head of the tool, Steven Johnson. Don’t worry – this programme is still brought to you by real human beings! We also look into how deepfakes have been used in the US. Plus – have we unveiled the real inventor of Bitcoin? (Spoiler – no.)
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Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Imran Rahman-Jones Editor: Monica Soriano
(Image: An AI-generated head with letters coming out of its mouth. Credit: Getty Images.)
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:28.1 | Hi and welcome to Tech Life, the programme about tech and how it affects your life. |
| 0:33.6 | With me, Chris Valence, on today's program. |
| 0:37.2 | There's an important election this week in case you |
| 0:39.5 | hadn't noticed. We look into how AI-generated fake videos and images have targeted candidates in the |
| 0:45.9 | U.S. election. On social media, often images are compressed. You're looking at them at your |
| 0:52.4 | phone screen. The bottom line is people |
| 0:55.9 | often cannot tell. Sticking with the AI theme, a Google tool for summarizing documents has been |
| 1:02.2 | wowing the tech world with its podcasting abilities. We hear from its editorial director. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm not going to share this. I'm not going to put this on YouTube. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm just generating this because I want to hear my diary entries, like, turned into podcast formats. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm the only person who wants to hear that. |
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