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Can AI-generated improvised comedy be funny? – BBC News
A new personalised vaccine given in combination with a drug has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial, representing a potentially watershed moment in cancer treatment. Scientists used mRNA technology, which was used for some Covid-19 vaccines.
But that technology – and vaccines more generally – have become increasingly controversial in the United States since the Covid-19 pandemic. The Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, is a vaccine sceptic.
In August 2025 cancelled $500m (£376m) in funding for mRNA vaccine research. The move impacted 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, according to Kennedy’s department.
We speak to Tom Whipple, host of the BBC’s Inside Science programme, about the science of this new vaccine. And we ask how funding cuts for vaccine research could impact health outcomes not just for Americans, but for the world.
0:00 How does the new mRNA skin cancer vaccine work?
2:56 How effective is the new cancer vaccine?
5:06 How do mRNA vaccines work?
6:51 How was mRNA technology developed?
10:26 How did Covid change mRNA vaccines?
12:01 Why is RFK Jr cutting mRNA funding?
15:19 Are mRNA vaccines safe?
18:48 Why is the FDA approving an mRNA flu vaccine?
21:00 What does the future of mRNA research look like?
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Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt’s 100m world record at Beijing games | BBC News
A Chinese humanoid robot has run 100 metres in 9.39 seconds in a preliminary heat at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing the men’s world record time held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt.
Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, won its heat at the opening of the games’ second edition. The robot overtook smartphone maker Honor’s Lightning near the finish after falling behind early in the race. Lightning finished in 9.47 seconds, also faster than the 9.58-second record Bolt set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
The results marked a remarkable improvement from last year’s inaugural games, when Tiangong Ultra won the 100 metres in 21.50 seconds. Tiangong also won the world’s first humanoid robot half-marathon, held in Beijing last year.
The 100 metres is among 51 events at the games, which include football, dancing and contests to complete industrial tasks.
China is promoting humanoid robots as a strategic emerging industry, with policymakers and companies betting that advances in AI and hardware will accelerate their use in manufacturing, logistics and consumer applications.
Investor enthusiasm for the sector was underscored recently when shares in Unitree, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker, jumped more than five fold in its Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market value of about $50 billion.
This year’s games have drawn 2,056 robots from 666 teams across 16 countries and six continents, up from 280 teams at the inaugural event.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Laura Bicker in Beijing.
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Every year, new reports warn that our roads are getting worse and potholes are becoming more common. Experts say the cost of …
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Artificial intelligence was the technology lots of people wanted to talk about at the Dentistry Show in Birmingham, UK.
From 3D printing to digital scanners and AI receptionists, there are many ways in which technology is helping dentists’ workflow.
We tried some of the tech on display.
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There was a time when sleeping was simple – but now, it’s a bit more complicated.
Sleep has rules – there’s the right bedtime, the right temperature, and the right amount of deep sleep.
It’s not just something we do, it’s something we measure.
But is all this number punching actually helping us rest?
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@Jake4
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
What's the point of promoting 'Improbotics'? Like the presenter said, they're manually typing in queries to OpenAI GPT-3 and selecting the best output & all the work they've done is just a TTS output…
@curiositycloset2359
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
I'm sure it's got to be better than the crap the bbc had been producing the last half decade.
@bwalyacharlesngowani15
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
I hate it when human originality is taken over by the Robots
@pointblank3409
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
f*ck this
@medmed5436
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
YESSSS OMG IK SO HAPPY SO EXCITED. NEXT STEP BETTER BE TRANSFERRING HUMANS CONCIOUSNESS INTO ROBOTS!!!!!!
@Joecbg100
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
South Park fans
This is FUNNYBOT real life
@lfeb
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
I don't understand why you would do this? This doesn't help anyone, art should be the one safe space. This is gross.
@mikek545
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Wow this is bad content
@enkhyy
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
So, a very complex voiceover. I would like to hear from a human with the body language. The robot is very "stiff". 😉
@auro1986
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
it is generated by bbc improvised by ai
@MarkHopewell
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Comedy is just about dead and buried at the BBC, so I should give the AI comedian a chance anyway. You've nothing to lose. You've lost it already.
@atomictraveller
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
i've been developing procedural texts/lyrics/music for about thirty years, before AI methods.
apart from other fine points people choose to ignore, it's hardly fair to allow humans to interpret and select everything you say.
AI can be continuously funny because they don't think like people who want to be cool. we're tired of that part.
just understand, proceduralism of any nature is akin to augury, anything you don't understand can be speaking to you.
@public.public
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Hardly A.I. generated in the real sense then.
It might be better if a ventriloquist played the robot?
@seeyouseemee3863
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
So its Gen Z humor, random, no direction and unwitty
@synthesia-io
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Definitely ruffled my air filters.
@user-vu4yt7di7d
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
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구뤠도..
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@user-vu4yt7di7d
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
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그..캐나ㄷ..끄,단체..재솬s..앙갈ㄱ먺으져야.. ㄸㅐㅁ. 미굮..잇느..0굮,출.. 잇긴,잇느..케도..
@camilla_k97
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
No.
@burrowsgod
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
What's most worrying is the BBC is reporting on this lunacy.
If you want to see A.I all you have to do is look at Elon Musk and Zuckerberg
@sethandruby
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Brussels Broadcasting Company (BBC) ?
1995 population 57.9 million people
2022 population 67.9 million people
Liberal & labour open door political system has created ?
A housing crisis, 6000 properties rented for illegal immigrants?
NHS meltdown ( new policy colour comes first?)
BBC spin every boat full of doctors & nurses ? LOL
10 million more using gp’s & dentist’s
Crime crisis (rape, thief, grooming gangs not investigated )
Grooming gangs ( supposedly it’s a hate crime to criticise ? )
Power shortage ( when cold this winter thank a green ?)
Nhs waiting lists, 10 million reason’s no beds ?
40 thousand pounds per illegal immigrant average spend ?( estimated cost 2 billion a year ? , that’s a large hospital a year ?)
High house prices, 10 million reason’s there are no houses ?
Terror attacks on streets but no police?
Conservitive party sign us back into EU 2.0 but no referendum ?
Five million on benefits but somehow we need immigrants?
Free speech outlawed
etc, etc
@TheRepostTTAndYTShortsVersion
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
BBC News I Need Move Odnoklassniki
@GM-fe5sz
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Laugh or be vaporised.
@logicalmusicman5081
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
I fail to see how randomly generated lines that are chosen by an operator is A.I.
@moinuddinkhan593
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
It's all fun & comedy 🤡
until it starts to shoot at you 💀
@gireeshan-bd6hi
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Islam will conquer whole universe 💪💪💪
@HOXHOXHOX
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Cringe
@lifeinvietnam99999
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
bbc news
@emandas5640
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Bomb blast in Istanbul Turkey where news
@adrianlouw2499
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Not if its woke…
@taigelu8286
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
What you tasol my
@thedanpalen7622
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Literally nothing funny in here at all.
@balung
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
We have it already, its called SNL and Colbert.
@cybersid
December 30, 2023 at 11:34 pm
It would be but not for long.
After that there will be endless tears.