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Dr Philip Ball
How To Grow A Human
Philip Ball has two brains… In 1818 Mary Shelley wrote the seminal work ‘Frankenstein’, an exploration of the consequences of rivalling God by building a human being using parts stolen from dead bodies. 101 years later, Philip Ball explored in his book ‘How to Grow A Human’ how science is moving us closer to a different possibility, unguessed in Shelley’s novel: not of building but of growing a human artificially. The book arose from Philip’s experience of having a "second brain" grown from his own cells in a lab in London. As a visiting scholar at Harvard, he takes us to Boston to speak to...
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Part Six. The final episode in this series looks forward into the future. If we are able to reach the point where we can create advanced AI ‘beings’, will we be able to live alongside them – especially if they are in some ways more intelligent than us, or hold our lives in their hands? Thanks to...
Published 10/26/21
Published 10/26/21
Part Five. IBM is one of the world’s biggest makers of “thinking machines” – computers. Would a cyborg be more successful, for example, than a being made entirely from human parts? Phil speaks to David Cox of IBM, an expert in the intersection between machine intelligence and...
Published 10/26/21
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