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In the autumn of 2021, something strange happened at the Google headquarters in California's Silicon Valley. A software engineer called, Blake Lemoine, was working on the artificial intelligence project, 'Language Models' for Dialogue Applications', or 'LaMDA' for short.LaMDA is a chatbot- a computer programme designed to have conversations with humans over the internet. After months talking wit..

According to this view, the real problem is not overpopulation but overconsumption. Affluence- that's having lots of money and owning many things, has become a big factor in climate change, and that's true in poorer countries as well as richer ones. Listen to Rajesh Joshi, reporter for BBC World Service's, The Climate Question, interviewing a rich Indian housewife, Priti Dhagen, in her luxurious..

We're talking about the environment in this programme, specifically climate change. Now, Sam, what do you think is the biggest cause of climate change?An obvious answer would be that climate change is the result of carbon emmissions caused by humans. It's about people's carbon footprint- the measurement of how much carbon dioxide is produced by someone's everyday activities. That makes sense. Bu..