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In Machines We Trust: AI births digital humans (Encore)

We're so excited this episode has been selected as a New York Festivals finalist! Please enjoy this encore edition and we'll see you back next week! Digital twins of humans capture the physical look and expressions of real humans. Increasingly these replicas are showing up in the entertainment industry and beyond and it gives rise to some interesting opportunities as well as thorny questions.  We speak to: Greg Cross, CEO and co-founder of Soul Machines Credits: This episode was produced by Anthony Green with help from Emma Cillekens. It was edited by Jennifer Strong and Mat Honan, mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from Jacob Gorski.

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  Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine’s drone defense

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  ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that…

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  Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evo…

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  The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit

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  The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom

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  Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?

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  Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is …

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  How gamification took over the world

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  Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we …

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  Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees”

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  What is AI?

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  The cost of building the perfect wave

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  How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play

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  The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs

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  Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

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  How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime