Mark Pesce
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
Tech: The AI that's making fake art look real
Tech commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about fakery - specifically, the very new and exciting art-generating fakery. He looks at the three main platforms - including one that's open source… Audio
New technology with Mark Pesce
The likely changes to abortion law in the US are making a lot of people nervous, as well as tech giants...Meta (formerly Facebook) has banned its staff from talking about it at work. The struggle to… Audio
Technology: Is Google search dying, and careful with your DNA
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about whether Google search has optimised itself to deliver ads, rather than worthwhile search results. What happens if Google continues to… Audio
Technology: The Year in Review
Tech commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at some of the biggest themes that have emerged this year, including the computer chip shortage that has ground the industry to a halt and forced… Audio
What is the metaverse? And why is Facebook rebranding?
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about Mark Zuckerberg's announcement last week that Facebook would rebrand to Meta, to focus the direction of the company on the metaverse. Mark… Audio
Chip shortages, Facebook's big fine, hampster trading
Tech correspondent Mark Pesce talks shortages in the auto industry, Facebook shareholder fury over a big fine and a crypto-trading hamster. No. Really.
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at… Audio
Technology commentator Mark Pesce
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about a well-intended move that’s ended up being controversial for Apple. It was to enable the scanning of people’s photos for child sex… Audio