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Ahead of Their Time

Kam Raslan | Matt Armitage | Ahmad Yazid

24-Jun-22 21:00

Ahead of Their Time

It’s another exciting episode of A Bit of Culture that will satisfy your cultural curiosity. Returning guest Ahmad Yazid kicks off the show by talking about his latest passion - sailing. Reeling off from that fascinating insight on the world of sailing, Kam then talks about individuals that are ahead of their time in history. In the second part of the show, Matt Armitage talks about Google’s AI called LaMDA that made the news recently after one of Google’s engineers claimed that it has gained sentience.

Produced by: Haniff Baharudin

Presented by: Kam Raslan


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Categories:  culture,  technology

Tags:  Nikola Tesla,  LaMDA,  sailing,  innovators,  google ai,  sentience, 


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