this week, we re taking a deep dive into artificial intelligence, and how it s transforming the world around us. yeah, that includes in healthcare, where we meet the ai helping radiologists to diagnose cancer. you can see these little white dots. the ai is highly suspicious. and in the fast moving game of ai artwork, who owns what? and can artists protect their work? for some time, artificial intelligence has been all around us. you might not have noticed it, but your video streaming services, social media feeds, the maps on your smart phones, they ve all been steadily improving their performance because the computers behind them have been learning. and then last year, something important happened. yeah. ai got human or at least it felt like it did. companies like google and open ai started showing off stunning photorealistic images like these, all created by ai from short text descriptions. and then ai started having conversations with us. they were starting to generate st
this week, we re taking a deep dive into artificial intelligence, and how it s transforming the world around us. yeah, that includes in healthcare, where we meet the ai helping radiologists to diagnose cancer. you can see these little white dots. the ai is highly suspicious. and in the fast moving game of ai artwork, who owns what? and can artists protect their work? for some time artificial intelligence has been all around us. you might not have noticed it, but your video streaming services, social media feeds, the maps on your smart phones, they ve all been steadily improving their performance because the computers behind them have been learning. and then last year, something important happened. yeah. ai got human or at least it felt like it did. companies like google and open ai started showing off stunning photorealistic images like these, all created by ai from short text descriptions. and then ai started having conversations with us. they were starting to generate stu
the same again? what we were seeing was the emergence of something called generative ai, and although this was only a tiny part of artificial intelligence as a whole, it got us all talking about the possibilities and the risks. to the evening, when we re watching our favourite streaming service and it s recommending what to watch. but suddenly, people were interested and fear seemed to transcend excitement. and next week, world leaders are going to be meeting at bletchley park, the world famous computing site, for the ai summit, to discuss all of the issues that al has kicked up. so, we thought we d give you a reminder of some of those issues, plus some of the benefits of letting computers learn from billions trillions of pieces of data. we start with ben derico in chicago, and then marc cieslak s in scotland. ai art has taken a massive leap recently. i mean, this one sold for over $400,000 at an auction at christie s in 2018. with image generators like dall e and stable di
images, pictures of things that have never actually existed. and then came text. at the back end of 2022, ai chatbot chatgpt emerged and within a few months people were in a frenzy. werejobs, education, love letters ever going to be the same again? what we were seeing was the emergence of something called generative ai, and although this was only a tiny part of artificial intelligence as a whole, it got us all talking about the possibilities and the risks. and for years we ve been talking about how ai can enhance our lives, from the moment we wake up in the morning and our smartphone recognises our faces to the evening when we re watching our favourite streaming service and it s recommending what to watch. but suddenly people were interested and fear seemed to transcend excitement. and next week, world leaders are going to be meeting at bletchley park, the world famous computing site, for the ai summit, to discuss all of the issues that al has kicked up. so we thought we d gi
readers scrutinise 5,000 mammograms a year. 250 300 patients will be called back, and 30 a0 of those will require closer attention. and there is a chance that with that number you could miss cancers. within the rules that the national screening council have given us, we are not allowed to use the ai automatically as part of the process as yet, so we are using the ai as an extra check at the end of our reading process. in 2016, a private company, kheiron medical technologies, began training an ai model called nia using hundreds of thousands of medical scans. itsjob to identify breast cancer. until now, this ai has been intended as an assistive tool for use by two human radiologists. it has become the foundation of the technology being used in aberdeen. the health service is experiencing massive staff shortages. experimentation with al