Playing God
Listen now
Description
Part One. So how to start building our an artificial human? Start small with the human genome. Phil goes to Harvard Medical School to track down eminent gene editor George Church and finds out about how this technology could be opening up ways of creating not only humans, but actual superhumans’.   Music by Philip Ball Thanks to www.Freesound.org for supplying sound effects under creative commons Attribution 3.0 license created by the following artists; Dobroide, Daveincamas, Decembered, Dnlburnett The licence can be read here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
More Episodes
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