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5 Live Science Podcast

Covid app findings, AI writing, and brainy birds

Jul 14, 2024
56:01

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.

This week we discover what the Covid app has told us about how diseases spread across the UK We look at what the appointment of Sir Patrick Vallance as Minister for Science means for the scientific community. And whilst generative AI can boost productivity for writers, it can also produce very similar stories. So are we willing to trade boring for productive?

Plus in our Titans of Science series we continue with Cambridge University psychologist and bird fanatic Nicky Clayton, as we discuss the cognitive behaviour of birds.

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