Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, could this be the future of gaming . Move over vin diesel, we are about to get fast and furious. And are you ready for a debate with a robot . Streaming services have changed the entertainment landscape. Theyre taking bigger and bigger chunks from the dvd market, theyve completely revolutionised the music industry, and theyve got terrestrial tv execs quaking in their expensive boots. But what about streaming video games . Well, thats a lot harder, because you need to make the game responsive and playable. So could streaming ever kill the games console . This week, tech giant google launched stadia, a brand new games streaming platform. You would no longer need an expensive computer or the latest game console to play the best titles. In theory, you only need a good wi fi connection. Or at least, thats the idea. Marc cieslak has been putting stadia through its paces to see if it lives up to the expectations. Google stadia does away with one of these, a games console, and replaces it with one of these, a Chromecast Ultra. If you want to play a game on a tv, that is. Stadia also allows you to play on a tablet, computer or phone. In theory its capable of producing 4k visuals. It plugs into the back of a tv and then connects to a router. This then makes the connection with a data centre. This controller communicates with the router via wi fi and allows me to actually play a game. Streaming a game is more difficult than streaming video, because with video you have data travelling in one direction, from the server to the viewer. With a game, data travels both ways. The inputs im making to control the game travel to the server and the graphics displaying the effect of my input have to come back to me. This is where a potential problem could occur, due to a thing called lag. If the inputs dont match up to the graphics, then the game becomes impossible to play. Google claims its data centres use special tech which helps avoid this, as well as recommending that users are capable of receiving particular internet speeds. So the minimum spec required for stadia to actually work is an Internet Connection of 10mbps download and 1mbps upload speeds. I have everything connected via wi fi. Are we ready now to consign our consoles to the bin . Um, initially, no. Because as you can see, performance is, well. Its a little bitjuddery, a little bit laggy, and nowhere near as smooth as you would expect from a console. And there we have, your game may stop because your connection isnt stable. Im inside a bbc building, using a router which should be more than capable as far as this is concerned. So what is stadia like out in the real world . So we take a quick trip across town to check. Ive come to a flat in north london, and ive got stadia set up here. Weve quite a good Internet Connection here, about 20mbps, well inside the specification that should work with this device. Now, its a little bit of a faff to get it set up, because each one of these things, the controller, the phone, and the Chromecast Ultra which is plugged in to the back of that screen, has to connect to wi fi individually. Its quite impressive. Its smooth, it works, were playing the game. Everythings working properly. But after a little bit of time playing, ive encountered quite a few issues with performance. We get graphics sticking. This is actually working quite well now, its actually settled down quite a bit. I should point out i couldnt get stadia to work on any public wi fi, though, the kind of stuff you find in cafes and bars. There are a number of videogame streaming Services Already available, but stadia is perhaps the most ambitious. So far it has a list of 22 titles at launch, but only one exclusive, and while games like tomb raider and destiny 2 are solid titles, theyre not exactly brand new games. We have work to do. Think of it as like Parental Controls but for yourself, but perhaps the biggest challenge to google comes from microsoft, and this can be done at router level. With its games streaming offering, which was on show at a recent this is whats known as a mesh wi fi system. Xbox event. It allows you to upgrade your Home Internet function, including setting microsofts response to videogame streaming is project xcloud. Rules about the times you can connect phones, of course, the one problem with theirs is you could switch to using your mobile data, so to avoid that temptation, my view is were all in the testing phase. You can switch mobile were early in this technology. We view it will take many years before this Technology Becomes mainstream. The best place for you to play will be on your local device connected to your tv, and thatll be true for many years. The same thing for a gaming pc. The local compute capability that you have, youre not dealing with internet irregularities, youre dealing with a dedicated device which is meant to go play those games, connected to a display device that is probably the best display device in your house. When it does work it is a minor miracle. Both of them are. Its amazing when you can just switch devices on the go, jump from your tv to your tablet or to your laptop, you know, that barely runs, you know, microsoft word and then suddenly youre playing destiny 2 on it. Thats amazing, when it works. But it is a little off in the distance before its sort of universally accepted as the new way to play. Theres been a lot of confusion about stadias pricing, with lots of people thinking its a netflix for games. Its not. All the games must then be purchased in order to play them. It costs £8. 99 a month for a stadia pro subscription. This allows players to use the service and play games in ak at 60 frames per second. There are a host of features for stadia which arent ready at launch, like sharing clips to youtube. But on this evidence, videogame streaming is surely the future. The problem is, todays technology isnt quite up to the task. That was marc. Now, last month we spent a whole episode of click looking just at all electric cars, and as part of that, we showed you just how quick electric cars can be. This was lara in a tesla saloon car outgunning a lamborghini. But electric ambitions dont stop in supercar territory. No, several manufacturers are working on electric hypercars. This is teslas vision, this 250,000 2020 roadster is due next year. And here is the rimac c two. It has the equivalent of 1,888 horsepower, and it has a claimed 0 62 time of 1. 85 seconds. And a base price target of 2 million. But both of those cars could be outgunned by a british designed hypercar like none other, and its even more expensive, too. Dann simmons has been to hethel in norfolk for whats hoped to be the rebirth of a legendary sports car badge. Newsreel chapman built his first car for fun. It was an austin 7 special. No one knows why, but he called it a lotus. Since the 50s, lotus has been producing lightweight cars designed to thrill, from the classic 60s elan to formula i. Commentator 23 speed aces are on the grid at brands hatch to start the european grand prix. Lotus has been specialising in affordable sports cars, offering 200, 300 or even 400 horsepower. But now, with new investors, its first foray into electric is as eye wateringly expensive as it is powerful. And no one has seen anything like it. This car is the first all british electric hypercar. It will be the most powerful production car in existence when it goes into production next year. Its a huge statement of intent, announcing that lotus is back. So we have four 500 ps motors to deliver 2000 ps in total. Thats german for 1,973 horsepower. To do that in this packaging weve had to take existing technology and radically improve upon it. What our engineers and designers have achieved is something which looks beautiful, but have done it as a form through function. Every part of that design has a use. These are the first pictures of the evija in action on a test track. While its still being tinkered with, its in camouflage paint. The new poster child for lotus is notjust a pretty picture. The evija will have some truly astonishing abilities under the hood. So, theres no gears. There is a single speed box which means we have completely linear acceleration, from 0 to over 225 miles an hour. What that does do, is it gives us unbelievable acceleration. So we can go from 0 300 kilometres an hour in significantly less than nine seconds. The low seating position is afforded by placing the 600 kilograms of batteries in a pyramid formation behind the drivers seat. Liken a mid mounted engine. Those batteries are special, too. After recharging 1,000 times with mixed driving modes, performance dropped just 10 . And in this car, with a conventional 350kw charger, you can go to 80 in 12 minutes and 100 in about 16 minutes. Were working with partners to develop ultrafast chargers, which means we could charge this same car in less than nine minutes, up to 100 , and in about six minutes, up to about 80 . That would be truly world class. Thats all very well, dann, i hear you say. But where do i put my luggage . Well, how about the carbon suitcase that you fit just here inside the drivers door . Theres also one on the passenger side, so youre not fighting for space. The downforce on this car can be increased fourfold, with the rear wing and undercarriage adapting according to conditions. At £2. 2 million each, just 130 avayas will be made, starting next year. But the tech behind them will be around for a long time to come. Hello, welcome to the week in tech. It was the week iran enforced a near total internet blackout following protests against rising petrol prices, leaving almost 80 Million People without online access. Britains conservative party came underfire for rebranding one of its twitter accounts as fact check uk, a move the social networking site said was misleading. And heliogen, a bill gates backed start up, claimed a breakthrough in its Solar Technology which could one day cut fossil fuel use. Using computer vision, it was able to concentrate solar energy at temperatures of over 1,832 degrees fahrenheit. South koreas lg is testing out 25 of its chloe robots with seouls National University hospital. Lg says the robots will provide video support to young patients ahead of medical procedures. An aquatic rover is being rolled out under the ice in antarctica. Nasa is working with the Australian Antarctic programme to test the metre long robot. It may one day help spot signs of extraterrestrial life on europa, one ofjupiters icy moons. And finally, google has built a room sized egg to help solve one of the hardest parts of 3d modelling, lighting. This 3d camera setup is rigged with more than 300 led lights that can produce any colour and create human models that will blend into their virtual environments. But will this bright idea take off . Were hooked on apps that demand our repeated attention, and its no secret that the Tech Companies have used particular techniques to make their products and platforms habit forming. Those videos that just autoplay one after the other, those stats next to your posts hinting atjust how popular you are. That notification icon its red for a reason, you know. Red is a trigger colour. Even the act of swiping down to refresh your feed feels like youre playing a slot machine, and the fact that you dont exactly know what youll get as a reward. Well, thats addictive too. To be clear, we want that, right . To be very clear, thats what makes a product engaging and interesting. Are we going to say, netflix, please make your shows less interesting apple, please make your devices less user friendly of course not, we want them to be engaging. A few years ago, nir eyal wrote hooked, a book which detailed these techniques to make Company Products more habit forming, although he says he hoped they would be used to form good habits. Tech companies have been using these techniques for a very, very long time. The idea behind hooked was to democratise those techniques why shouldnt all sorts of Tech Companies use these same tactics to help people form Healthy Habits . So i didnt like these for the Gaming Companies and social networks, theyve known them already. What i wanted to do was help Companies Like fitbod get people hooked to exercising in the gym, Companies Like kahoot to get kids hooked to in classroom learning, so we can form these Healthy Habits using the exact same techniques. Whether its fitnees or facebook, many of us are feeling hooked and now al has written an antidote indistractable, a book to help us break our smartphone habits. Poacher turned gamekeeper . Maybe. Today its social media, yesterday it was television, video games, the comic book all of these things people said were melting our brains and addicting us, and, of course, none of that has really happened. His book deals with suggestions on how to resist the internal triggers like boredom orfomo that cause us to reach for our phones. I think we all have to face up to the fact that these big corporate moneymaking corporations are going to want to use every means possible to make us use their products more. Thats just right. Incorrect. Really . Yes. They do not want to create addicts, they want to create lifelong users. So its a competitive threat to these businesses if people say, this product is hurting me, and thats what people do with time if a product hurts them. Were not stupid, were not puppets on a string. People realise that if this product sucks, im going to find an alternative and stop using it. In ten years, where do you think we will be . If you think the world is distracting today, just wait a few years. And this is why i think its so crucial to teach our children to become indestractible. That is the skill of the century. Speaking of those skills, ive been taking a look and some of the apps and functions within our phones to help encourage us to spend a little less time looking at these screens. So how about the idea of being rewarded for the time that you spend away from your device . Now, i get the idea that an app to do that is kind of ironic because its on the phone, but apps like forest aim to create the right feeling that makes you want to not use your phone. The aim here is to build a whole forest one tree at a time. So each time you want to take a break from your phone, you set how long that is for could be half an hour, could be ten minutes and then you tap on plant. So a tree is being planted as long as i spend that time away from my device. Every time youre tempted to go back and check your social networks, tempted to go back and play that game that youre so addicted to, well, you have to actively tap give up to do so, which psychologically does make you want to put the phone back down and carry on with what youre doing. The ultimate aim here is to create a whole forest and, at the same time, you can track your progress to see each day, each week, each month how long you managed to stay away from your phone each day. You can even set up group tree planting, where if one person falters you all fail. Another way that you can spend less time connected to the internet is actually reducing the amount of time you can connect to yourwi fi. Think of it as like Parental Controls but for yourself, and this can be done at router level. This is whats known as a mesh wi fi system. It allows you to upgrade your Home Internet function, including setting rules about the times you can connect phones, tablets or computers to the web. And then you connect all of your gadgets to the device, so you can select various functions you can add antivirus but you can also go in and change those all important timing. Of course, the one problem with theirs is you could switch to using your mobile data, so to avoid that temptation, you can switch mobile data are thin those apps that are going to tempt you the most. Of course, the one big problem with this is you could switch to using your mobile data, so to avoid that temptation, you can switch mobile data off in those apps that are going to tempt you the most. But for those moments when fiddling on your phone seems pretty unavoidable, or simply irresistible, then another option is to switch it to greyscale, as those apps are going to look a lot less appealing, so youre likely to want to spend less time using them. Creating the iphone shortcut is easy, and once you have, triple tapping the home button allows you to switch the function on or off. Its a little bit more complicated on the android device, though, as you do need to enter developer mode. Realistically, all of these options do require a little bit of willpower still, and if you had enough, i guess you wouldnt need them in the first place. But hopefully they are some help. Right now, i think i need to get back to checking my phone. Keep scrolling, lara, keeps scrolling now, computer scientists around the world are working on ways to make artificial in indistinguishable from humans, with varying degrees of success, but one way this is being tested is in debates between humans and computers, and this week ibms ai system was on stage at cambridge university, and Jen Copestake was in the audience to see the results. Cambridge union is the worlds oldest debating society. In the past, it has hosted winston churchill, the dalai lama and theodore roosevelt, but tonights star guests are not human but Artificial Intelligence. The next issue is bias. Ibms project debater is the first of its kind in the world. A machine that can debate humans on complex objects. And in another world first, it is here tonight to help to humans debate the motion ai will do more harm than good. Project debater, these take the floor. Applause project debater ai will not be able to make a decision that is the morally correct one. The two project debaters are present in this this single avatar using a female voice. Each teams debater presents the opening arguments for the debate, which has been determined from over 1,000 contributions, something ibm calls speech by crowd. Project debater we will demonstrate how ai will automate repetitive tasks and the next issue will show how ai will create new jobs. The system solves the responses into meaningful groups and identifies central themes and the ai generates a narrative from what it deems the most relevant information. Then the human team members take over to continue the debate. They peer deeply into our soul because of the amount of data we trail on an everyday basis. Whereas with al, its absolutely crucial . Why . Because without data, there is no ai. The fact you have an ability to collect information or to perhaps get evidence and be confronted with the other side is taking things humans already do as part of debating, but itsjust enhancing abilities to do things much better. Some abilities are just going be able to be pushed much further with the technology of our system. Project debater greetings, harish. Project debater first faced debate champion Harish Natarajan back in february in san francisco. Project debater isuspect youve never debated a machine. And while losing the debate, the audience felt they had learned more about the subject from the ai and from the human champion. I think when you have access to far more information, it changes the way in which you think about the topic. Humans augment that by being able to talk about some of the emotional and moral issues, and i think at least at this stage, Artificial Intelligence is behind. The future is in a synergistic collaboration between the system and humans, and not in replacing humans. So you never think it will be sophisticated as a human in developing arguments . I believe when youre actually trying to use this technology, you should do that in collaboration with humans. In the end, tonights ai assisted debate was a tight run contest 51 voted against the motion that al would do more harm than good with 48 voting for and 1 abstaining. So an ever so slightly upbeat view on the future of Human Interaction and ai in cambridge. That wasjen in cambridge and thats it for this week. Dont forget that we live on, altogether, youtube, facebook, instagram and twitter bbcclick. Thanks for watching and we will see you soon. Hello there. Rain is the main concern over the next 2a hours. There are various met Office Warnings warning about that persistent rain, but there could be some travel disruption, even possible flooding. Its certainly been wet through the evening and night across the south west and wales and across Northern Ireland. That rains been moving northwards, so the warnings come into force as well through the midlands and then Northern England, eventually parts of scotland too. So, given that weve already had well in excess of what wed normally see through the autumn, rain wise, there is a concern that there will be some further flooding because we could see another half a months worth of rain in some parts of england, wales and later up into scotland as well. It looks pretty wet for Northern Ireland as well. All this rain is meandering around an area of low pressure sat towards the south west. So, even once the main rain clears, therell be showers around, some quite hefty ones. May dry up for a time, but well have a legacy of drizzly and rather cloudy weather, low clouds and some hill fog around as well. You can see the day looks quite wet through the midlands, Northern England and through the afternoon as well. That rains creeping up into eastern parts of scotland. So, the north west, after a chilly start, might see the best of the sunshine. The Northern Isles as well doing quite well in terms of dry and bright weather on saturday, but the rain then arrives through the evening and overnight, across eastern and North Western parts of scotland. Elsewhere, well, we see a brief ridge of high pressure, so thats a window of drier weather, 12 to 2a hours for most of us before the next low pressure rolls in by the end of sunday and into monday. So, sunday does look like the drier day of the weekend for most of us not all of us, but most of us. However, therell be a lot of grey weather, some morning fog. Of course, after all that moisture around, that takes a long time to clear in november because were lacking strength in the sun, and then it just lifts into low cloud. Weve got a much wetter day for the Northern Isles and here comes the rain later on. The winds wont be as strong tomorrow as they will be today, so itll feel cold today just because of the wind as well as all the cloud. But thats easing tomorrow. But still, its only 9s to 11s, which is about average for the time of year. Sunday night sees the arrival of the next band of rain turns quite showery. Tuesdays rain, or monday night and tuesdays rain, looks a little bit more persistent once again, so were into this unsettled picture. Temperatures are up on those of last week. Theres just a hint that later in the week we might again get a respite from the rain and have some drier weather. But for the weekend, rain is definitely the concern. Particularly, as we say, in england and wales and then into parts of scotland. It does look drier for many of us on sunday. The warnings are on the website. Welcome to bbc news, im duncan golestani. 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