Can we use maths to beat the robots?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Daily advances in the technology of artificial intelligence may leave humans playing catch-up โ but in at least one area we can still retain an edge, mathematics. However itโll require changes in how we think about and teach maths and we may still have to leave the simple adding up to the computers. Junaid Mubeen, author of Mathematical Intelligence, tells Tim Harford what itโll take to stay ahead of the machines.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Jon Bithrey Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar Production Coordinator: Jacqui Johnson Editor: Richard Vadon
(Image: Digital generated image of artificial intelligence robot scanning the data: Getty / Andriy Onufriyenko)
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