42: The Answer to Almost Everything

S1 E1 · 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles

42: The Answer to Almost Everything — Season 1, Episode 203: Can AI Feel Us?

Documentary26 min1 season, 198 episodes9.6/10

Episode synopsis

Our feelings are something very intimate, something that belongs only to us—or at least we wish it did. But now, artificial intelligence (AI) can read our emotions and adapt to them. And if AI can handle our emotions so well, wouldn't it be easy for it to manipulate them? Or even control them?

About 42: The Answer to Almost Everything

What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's new science show. In a nod to Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where the figure 42 is the ultimate answer to all questions, 42 tries to provide the answers.

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