Mark Pesce

Tech correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at a report in Nature that notes ChatGPT can be used to generate fake, but reasonably good-looking, scientific data to support a hypothesis. Audio

Technology correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about what appears to be the biggest hack of the year so far - the mass exploitation of MOVEit Transfer software which has affected at least… Audio

Technology correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about a pledge between AI companies and US President Joe Biden, and Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand. Audio

Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about how OpenAI's Sam Altman tried to water down landmark AI legislation coming out of the EU, the security researchers who worked out how to… Audio

Tech correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at the merger of two of Alphabet's big AI teams: Google Brain and DeepMind. Can both put past differences aside to work well together? It comes as… Audio

Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about the passing of Gordon Moore, the billionaire philanthropist who co-founded Intel - the company that invented the microprocessor. He framed… Audio

Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about how it's all hands on deck at Google as it looks to head off the threat of AI and in particular ChatGPT, which is now 49 per cent owned by… Audio

Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about the 11,000 jobs being cut from Facebook's parent company Meta, the explosion in generative AI, a programming tool that can write code in a… Audio

Mark Pesce discusses plans by the San Francisco City Council to make it legal for police to watch citizens' private feeds from their surveillance cameras. Google is going to start watching to see if… Audio

Tech commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about fakery - specifically, the very new and exciting art-generating fakery. He looks at the three main platforms - including one that's open source… Audio

The likely changes to abortion law in the US are making a lot of people nervous, as well as tech giants...Meta (formerly Facebook) has banned its staff from talking about it at work. The struggle to… Audio

Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about whether Google search has optimised itself to deliver ads, rather than worthwhile search results. What happens if Google continues to… Audio

Tech commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at some of the biggest themes that have emerged this year, including the computer chip shortage that has ground the industry to a halt and forced… Audio

Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about Mark Zuckerberg's announcement last week that Facebook would rebrand to Meta, to focus the direction of the company on the metaverse. Mark… Audio

Tech correspondent Mark Pesce talks shortages in the auto industry, Facebook shareholder fury over a big fine and a crypto-trading hamster. No. Really.

Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at… Audio

Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about a well-intended move that’s ended up being controversial for Apple. It was to enable the scanning of people’s photos for child sex… Audio

Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at how the increasing sophistication of computers is also resulting in them producing random, unpredictable errors. Audio

Technology correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about how a software company offered employees a choice: stop complaining about the company's issues with diversity and inclusion - or take a… Audio

Technology correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about whether the Cold War has been replaced with The Code War as the number of exploits, subversions and thefts seems to increase. Audio