Mark Pesce
Tech: Google pushes 'go' on AI in weapons, AI music discord
Technology commentator Mark Pesce looks at a big shift in the tech world toward embracing AI Audio
Tech: AI personality replicator, viva voce and where Pokémon Go data went
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at research from Stanford University which harnesses AI to make a 'deepfake' of someone's personality Audio
Tech: Résumé bias, Meta supercharges AI plans, AI priests?
Tech commentator Mark Pesce looks at a study into job application sorting via AI, which found there was a bias against women and minorities. Audio
Tech: Meta, LinkedIn AI models trained on users without asking
Technology commentator Mark Pesce looks at how Meta has been training its AI on all text and photos that adult Facebook and Instagram users have published since 2007. Audio
Tech: Farmer blackmail, Cosmos' AI pickle, ChatGPT voice bug
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Paddy to discuss all things tech.
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Tech: Ball of AI confusion, vote for your... chatbot?
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at where problems are cropping up in telling humans and AI apart. In one instance writers were fired after being accused of using AI - where they hadn't and… Audio
Tech: AI flaws - does any tech company want to know?
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce details the flaw he found in a number of AI systems and the difficulty he had in alerting the big tech companies to it. Audio
Tech: Deepfake crime, headfake Meta AI, fox in the AI henhouse?
Technology commentator Mark Pesce has a roundup of the weirdest AI news this week, including the Baltimore gym teacher accused of using an AI voice clone to get a high school principal fired for a… Audio
Tech: China vs US tech, carmakers share data with insurers
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at the tit-for-tat between China and the US that's playing out across the tech industry. Audio
Tech: Vision Pro, $40m deepfake, Google stops backing up web
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce on the huge advance in "spatial computing" introduced by Apple's Vision Pro. Audio
Tech: The good, the bad and the weird at
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce was at this month's CES show in Las Vegas. The trade show is one of the world's biggest tech events, with over 500,000 exhibitors, inventors, entrepreneurs and… Audio
Tech: ChatGPT + 'scientific' data, Telsa flaws - known, but ignored
Tech correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at a report in Nature that notes ChatGPT can be used to generate fake, but reasonably good-looking, scientific data to support a hypothesis. Audio
Tech: Biggest hack of the year, breaking AI chatbots, Zoom honesty
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about what appears to be the biggest hack of the year so far - the mass exploitation of MOVEit Transfer software which has affected at least… Audio
Tech: AI company trust, robot teachers, X marks the spot?
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about a pledge between AI companies and US President Joe Biden, and Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand. Audio
Tech: Open AI's regulation moves, Blinkenlights cybercrimes, billionaires cage fight
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about how OpenAI's Sam Altman tried to water down landmark AI legislation coming out of the EU, the security researchers who worked out how to… Audio
Technology: Google DeepMind merger, LLM food
Tech correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at the merger of two of Alphabet's big AI teams: Google Brain and DeepMind. Can both put past differences aside to work well together? It comes as… Audio
Technology: Vale Gordon Moore, library in chains, call for pause on AI
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about the passing of Gordon Moore, the billionaire philanthropist who co-founded Intel - the company that invented the microprocessor. He framed… Audio
Tech: Has Google headed off an existential AI threat?
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about how it's all hands on deck at Google as it looks to head off the threat of AI and in particular ChatGPT, which is now 49 per cent owned by… Audio
Tech: Facebook job cuts and the boom in generative AI
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about the 11,000 jobs being cut from Facebook's parent company Meta, the explosion in generative AI, a programming tool that can write code in a… Audio
Your cameras are ours, Google surveillance, cyborg cockroaches
Mark Pesce discusses plans by the San Francisco City Council to make it legal for police to watch citizens' private feeds from their surveillance cameras. Google is going to start watching to see if… Audio