From NPR
Why do we get goosebumps? A podcast tries to answer science’s surprising questions
By Mallory Yu, Ahmad Damen, Sacha Pfeiffer
Hakeem Oluseyi, host of NOVA and GBH’s podcast Particles of Thought, breaks down how his show tackles some of science’s biggest and strangest questions.
... PFEIFFER: ...Frequent theme of your podcast. I want to play a clip of a conversation you had with a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information named Hany Farid, who researches and who authenticates digital media.
(SOUNDBITE OF PODCAST, “PARTICLES OF THOUGHT”)
HANY FARID: I can generate a video of me saying and doing things I never did.
FARID: And you can clearly see the power of that technology ... from a creative perspective. If you and I are having a conversation, and in post, we said something we didn’t mean to, we can just fill it in with AI now.
PFEIFFER: Right. So - and he’s talking about how AI is only going to get more sophisticated and better at mimicking people than it is now, and it’s already quite good...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
