with me are madhumita murgia, artificial intelligence editor at the financial times, sky news�* scienceechnology editor, tom clarke, eliz mizon, from independent media cooperative the bristol cable, as well as jackson ryan, science editor at cnet. welcome to you all. and i think we should start with the basics. madhu, if i could bring you in, from the financial times, explain what we mean by aland why, particularly in terms of the role ofjournalism it has, why it's getting so much coverage now. well, so, ai is artificial intelligence and, i mean, supposedly it's a mechanical computer version of human intelligence, or at least that's the hope, right? but today, what we have is, it's basically a powerful statistical system, a computer software, which finds patterns in large amounts of data. but what this means is that it can, you know, find diagnoses from pictures of x—rays or it can look through lots of words and help translate them into different languages. and what we're talking about today is generative ai, which is software that can actually create and generate things that include wo

with me are madhumita murgia, artificial intelligence editor at the financial times, sky news' scienceia cooperative the bristol cable, as well as jackson ryan, science editor at cnet. welcome to you all. and i think we should start with the basics. madhu, if i could bring you in, from the financial times, explain what we mean by ai and why, particularly in terms of the role ofjournalism it has, why it's getting so much coverage now. well, so ai is artificial intelligence and, i mean, supposedly it's a mechanical computer version of human intelligence, or at least that's the hope, right? but today what we have is, it's basically a powerful statistical system, a computer software, which finds patterns in large amounts of data. but what this means is that it can, you know, find diagnoses