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On today's show, Fareed brings you a GPS special, "Reengineering Life: The Next Frontiers in Science."
The 21st century has witnessed the arrival of amazing new technologies. Some of them, like the smartphones in our pockets, are now almost mundane. Others, like blockchain, have found niche applications. Still others, like quantum computing, are still in development, yet to be applied in the ways scientists imagine.
Two emerging technologies, however, are already beginning to change life as we know it—and will continue to for decades. In today's special, Fareed talks with two women who've pioneered them.
First, gene editing. The technology known as CRISPR, co-discovered by University of California Berkeley scientist Jennifer Doudna, has the power to alter our DNA, the code that makes our bodies how they are. There are risks, as seen in the jailing of a Chinese scientist who edited human embryos to make them immune to HIV. And there are superficial applications, like the potential to choose a baby's sex or eye color. But there are also real-world benefits, as in a treatment for sickle-cell disease that's already been approved by the FDA. Doudna tells Fareed about her process of discovery and where the technology can take us.
Then, artificial intelligence. Already available—and widely popular—in the form of commercial bots like ChatGPT, AI can answer questions, help prepare presentations, and collate internet search results. What will it be able to do in the future? How is it different from human intelligence, and how did the human brain serve as AI's founding model? Fareed talks with so-called "godmother of AI" Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer scientist who served as vice president at Google and who pioneered a critical facet of training AI engines: feeding them massive amounts of data. Li explains how the technology works and what drew her to experiment with it in the first place. |
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