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Unreal

When AI Becomes Us

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By: Marc Fennell
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Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so, what awaits us in the uncanny valley?

Across six episodes, award-winning journalist Marc Fennell will explore how AI will change us as humans.

So much of the conversation around AI is about technology and speculation about the future. But this is about us: how AI will change our sense of self, our sense of reality, the way we love and the way we grieve. Parents bring back a murdered son. Romantics fall for code that talks back. Machines read minds. Spirituality is found, and lost, in code.

Marc Fennell’s Unreal is a human-first exploration of how intelligent machines are reprogramming what being “human” actually means.

Hosted and co-produced by Marc Fennell

A BBC Studios UK production for Audible

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An extremely fascinating, empathetic, varied, and relatively even-handed look at how AI is used within and affects the lives of real people. Marc does a deft job of creating a engaging audiobook about the struggles (mostly) and triumphs of AI use amongst normal people. Easy to listen to and take in. Worth a listen.

A compelling and well-executed look at AI and humanity

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Throughly enjoyed this series, came away wondering what else has Marc produced that I can listen to. Very interesting examples and stories of real world LLM / AI use! Would love to hear more, I was hooked!

Great stories & insights, I couldn’t stop listening

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Interesting despite the subject!
Very good listening.
Examples researched to support the tight structure.
Well done!

Different example explored each chapter

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This podcast revealed astonishing new concepts to me.
Marc Fennell & his producer have presented us with mind-bending new realities.

Everything is now different

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Not without the worries we all feel surrounding AI, yet as usual of Marc's stuff, I am not left feeling despondent and despairing.

Marc Fennell and team deliver another great series!

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