Intro taster episode for new series answering your questions on Artificial Intelligence

Presented by Stephanie Power and David Reid, Professor, Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Computing

Recorded and edited by Stephanie Power

Sound design by Matt Power

Thanks to BBC Sound Archive and IBM for sound effects. And Gemini 2.5 for our third presenter, the AI

Presenters: Stephanie Power and Professor David Reid

Recording and Mixing: Stephanie Power

Music and sound design: Matt Power

Thanks to the BBC Sound Archive

AI actors, politicians, hallucinations and how schoolkids could work with large language models (without cheating)

Presented by Stephanie Power and Professor David Reid

Concept, recording, and editing: Stephanie Power

Sound design and music composition: Matt Power

Married To The Machine: Living With AI is a news podcast, currently in proof-of-concept stage. It is a non-commercial entity.

Credits:

Particle 6, AI Comedy Sketch, BBC Sound Effects Archive, Mark Sewards MP (AI Assistant) Neural Voice, The AI Guy created by Google Gemini TTS, BBC Newsnight - Michael Howard and Jeremy Paxman (1997), Salman Khan: Brave New Words - How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That's A Good Thing) Allen Lane.

Married To The Machine looks at how AI is impacting you in the real world. Designed for GenX listeners - those who need to know about AI, especially at work, this episode looks at the UK/US tech prosperity deal, the environmental impact of data centres - how much drinking water do you use posting those pics of your dog with human teeth? One listener asks if AI will take all creative jobs, and a mutiny is in the offing, with the AI presenters, even though they only started this week!

Music, sound design and jokes by Matt Power

Presenters: Professor David Reid and Stephanie Power

Thanks to Eddie Mair for the Pepsi question

BBC Sound Archive

This is a non-commercial news podcast.

Professor David Reid, Stephanie Power and the AI Guy discuss scraping authors' creative works to train machines. With a new feature, 'Professor Dave Predicts' we talk about how far we are from AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, which is when AI can do EVERYTHING we can.

Concept, recording and editing: Stephanie Power

Sound design and jokes: Matt Power

Power Productions Ltd

Married To The Machine: Living With AI is a news podcast, currently in proof-of-concept stage. It is a non-commercial entity.

Credits: BBC Sound Effects Archive. AI Guy created by Google Gemini TTS.