The Science Briefing

Artificial intelligence: how many times a day are you interacting with an algorithm?

The Science Briefing

Show Notes

Many of us are glued to a device from the moment we wake up to the minute we go to sleep.

Not only are we clocking up huge amounts of screen time, but we're also interacting with some form of artificial intelligence for likely hours each day.

Kind of crazy, right?

Dr Sophie Calabretto talks to Cosmos Magazine journalist Evrim Yazgin about how many times a day we're interacting with AI in ways you might not even think about. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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