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What would a documentary made by ChatGPT sound like? This is it…well, with a bit of human help.

Tech journalist and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Click presenter, Lara Lewington, explores the immeasurable possibilities of sophisticated AI technology and how it will change our lives - from doing students' essays to writing films, diagnosing health conditions to customer service. Lara will be testing how well it can help make this documentary, interviewing it, asking for the research. Can it write the script?

She will be pitting her own journalistic skills against the technology everyone’s talking about - ChatGPT. Lara is our guide to stepping into this new era experiencing a giant leap forward in AI, not only by ChatGPT but from its competitors who are rapidly on its heels. She hears from experts how it is a tool that could become as ubiquitous as Google, used for enhancing human performance, not limiting it.

Lara wants to understand what learning to live with this technology means in practice. How can we skill up and learn to use it smartly, to enhance our lives and careers? But it does have its problems. Yes, it can summarise reams of material in seconds. But it does get things wrong. There are also questions about its ethics, its bias and identifying the sources of the material it generates.

Lara explores how this type of AI could transform job roles, creative output, and ways of thinking we once thought could only ever be performed by human minds.

Presenter: Lara Lewington
Producer: Fiona Walker
Executive Producer: Katherine Godfrey
Researchers: Mo Ahmed and Valeria Rocca
Sound Design and Mix: Daniel Kempson

A Novel production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4.