Interview: Driving tech innovation at the BBC | Computer Weekly
Summary
The BBC’s research and development (R&D) arm serves a public purpose, which, according to the department’s director Jatin Aythora, is to make some of the technologies and inventions it creates available either for free or at really low cost. Technology is linked to the return on investment, which, in any organisation, has to deliver value.” A recent project the BBC Research and Development team has been working on is around demonstrating the authenticity of content. “We invented a piece of technology [Forevermark] that would mark a diamond with a specific watermark that can be traced from where it originates to how many hands it would have exchanged over a period of time,” he says, adding that the same concept can be applied in the content world. We don’t have an endless amount of money available to us,” Aythora says, adding that this is a different challenge compared with a commercial organisation that uses technology either to gain a competitive edge or drive profit. It’s a journey that we go through.” • Executive interview – Adding common sense to generative AI creativity: We speak to the chief scientist at Neo4j about why graph databases should work alongside large language models to keep them in check.