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Apr 21

Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part Two)

Demis Hassabis – CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind – is one of the world’s most visionary technologists. A child chess prodigy from North London, Hassabis was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using artificial intelligence to predict the complex structures of near ... Show More

33m 3s

Apr 19

Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part One)

Demis Hassabis – CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind – is one of the world’s most visionary technologists. A child chess prodigy from North London, Hassabis was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using artificial intelligence to predict the complex structures of near ... Show More

37m 52s

Apr 18

How Does Chemistry Shape our World? With Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu

Chemistry is everywhere. From cosmetics and the clothes we wear to life-saving medicines and kitchen experiments, chemical processes are all around us, defining our interactions with the world we live in. In this episode, Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu joins Professor Helen Czersk ... Show More

43m 49s

Nov 2021

ICYMI - The Spon-Con Video That Accidentally Captures the State of Tech

Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was rebranding to become Meta, shifting the company’s focus away from the single social media platform to some sort of amorphous, “embodied internet” concept. Khabane Lame, TikTok’s second biggest star right now, got tap ... Show More

24m 14s

Sep 2021

Facebook's Content Moderators Are Leaving Their Jobs With PTSD

If you’re on Facebook then there’s a company you’ve probably never heard of that makes it bearable. Accenture. The little-known consulting firm is one of the biggest companies in the booming market of content moderation. But you’ll probably never hear its name come out of the lip ... Show More

39m 46s

Jul 2023

Peak social media: The ads machine

<p>Mark Zuckerberg used advertising to turn Facebook into the first global social media giant, boasting 3bn users around the world. But today there are questions about the business model that has powered it for the past 15 years, and what Zuckerberg’s new focus on building the Me ... Show More

27m 5s

Oct 2021

The panic over Big Tech

On October 3, 2021, Frances Haugen—the so-called Facebook whistleblower—appeared on 60 Minutes to detail her time with the social media giant, as well as the content of the thousands of internal documents that reveal, according to her, the "conflicts of interest between what was ... Show More

42m 18s

Nov 2022

Watching Facebook Burn

For almost two decades, Facebook has dominated headlines and the lives of its users. It’s been blamed for genocides, pointed to as a vector of disinformation, and depressed you as you scrolled past high school acquaintances that seem to be doing so much better than you. But now i ... Show More

47m 49s

Feb 2024

U.S. Senators Grilled Social Media CEOs. Will Anything Change?

Was it political progress, or just political theater? The recent Senate hearing with social media CEOs led to astonishing moments — including Mark Zuckerberg’s public apology to families who lost children following social media abuse. Our panel of experts, including Facebook whis ... Show More

25m 6s

Mar 2019

‘I invested in Facebook … now I am ashamed’

Roger McNamee was a Facebook fan and an advisor to Mark Zuckerberg. Now he says he’s sad about the way the company is being run and the impact that it’s having on the world.Zuckerberg first sought out his advice, McNamee says, in 2006, shortly after Yahoo was making a $1bn bid to ... Show More

22m 30s

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