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Can we use maths to beat the robots?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - September 03, 2022 05:00 - 8 minutes - 8.21 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Daily advances in the technology of artificial intelligence may leave humans playing catch-up – but in at least one area we can still retain an edge, mathematics. However it’ll require changes in how we think about and teach maths and we may still have to leave the simple adding up to the computers. Junaid Mubeen, author of Mathematical Intelligence, tells Tim Harford what it’ll take to stay ahead of the machines.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Jon Bithrey
Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar
Production Coordinator: Jacqui Johnson
Editor: Richard Vadon
(Image: Digital generated image of artificial intelligence robot scanning the data: Getty / Andriy Onufriyenko)