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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Philip Dodd

Garry Kasparov

Richard Slocombe

Anna Grueztner Robins

John Keane

Simon Beard

Torquil MacLeod

Free Thinking: Man and Machine, Wyndham Lewis, Simon Beard

Man and Machine, Wyndham Lewis, Simon Beard

22/06/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Man and Machine, Wyndham Lewis, Simon Beard

Philip Dodd explores AI with Garry Kasparov. Plus vorticism and overpopulation.

Garry Kasparov talks to Philip Dodd about chess against a computer and his view of AI. Plus the art of Wyndham Lewis and Simon Beard on overpopulation and attitudes to death.

Garry Kasparov talks to Philip Dodd about being defeated by a supercomputer in the chess match he played in 1997 and how this affected his view of AI. 100 years ago, Wyndham Lewis was first commissioned as a war artist; Richard Slocombe, curator of a new exhibition and art historian Anna Grueztner Robins discuss his art 
with John Keane who was a war artist in the Gulf War. 2017 New Generation Thinker Simon Beard outlines his research into overpopulation and our attitude towards death. 

Garry Kasparov's book is called Deep Thinking: Where Artificial Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins.

Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War is a display of 160 artworks, books, journals and pamphlets which runs at the Imperial War Museum North in Salford from 23 June 2017 - 1 January 2018

Simon Beard is based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge researching existential risk. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who can turn their research into radio and television.
You can find more on the Free Thinking website. 

Producer: Torquil MacLeod 

Image: A Battery Shelled, 1919, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) IWM 
credit: (c) IWM Art.IWM ART 2747.

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