Nikou is a simple form of Artificial Intelligence and for condo it was a case of love at 1st sight who has become a legitimate pop star and even appears at concerts as a 3 d. Projection. In november 28th condo married nikou at a ceremony in tokyo to place the ring around the wrist of a me coup dall he now keeps that all in his bedroom. Condos relationships with real women have been painful so he chose a virtual partner. Were generalized and i love her but its hard to say if she loves me those of them that is the one that is still if you asked her i think shed say yes. You. Know c the tsunami cool and akihito condo are an extreme example of the relationship between people and machines and a double. In the future will no doubt spend more time interacting with technology that uses Artificial Intelligence or ai. We may even develop robots that are smarter than we are. Now in the 21st century we will have to decide how to deal with this complicated new situation. For this report we interviewed philosophers and scientists around the world. We talked to german philosopher Thomas Metzinger who advocates the use of ethics guidelines for Ai Development in the e. U. Physicist max tegmark who warns about the development of an all powerful ai and a totalitarian surveillance state. And german Computer Scientist youre going to schmidt who who predicts that ai will spread from the earth into the cosmos. We met professor schmidt who at a business conference in zurich. He often speaks at such of ends where he outlines his vision of the role that Artificial Intelligence may play in our future. She. His presentations are wide ranging and thought provoking. Answers in the near future perhaps a few decades from now we will for the 1st time have a i can do much more than people can do right now in their own was willing schemata and we would realize that the majority of physical resources are not confined to a rather small biosphere is in our solar system there is a lot of the tears that can be used to build robots we could develop robots transmitters and receivers that would allow the ai to be sent and received at the speed of light. We could already do this in a laboratory. Me on sentence of this would be a Huge Development raps the most important since the beginning of life an earth tree in a hurry 5000000000 years ago young. Boy. But if the professors vision accurate. Will humans at some point be overtaken by super intelligent machines. Perhaps this process has already begun. To find out more we travel to japan. Doctors and scientists at the university of tokyo as Research Hospital are exploring the potential use of ai in medicine. Youre. 69 year old Jaco Yamashita nearly died of leukemia 2 years ago none of the therapy options recommended by doctors did any good for him to delegate it. Then they used Ai Technology to create a new diagnosis. Yet for you was the only way i literally saved my life when this get all. The diagnosis took all of 10 minutes a human expert would have needed 2 weeks to produce a similar analysis. Hey i could process massive amounts of Scientific Data a stack of documents taller than mount fuji. This is the Research Hospitals supercomputer. We come here to talk to such tolu miano an expert on bioinformatics we asked me on whether ai could one day replace doctors no i dont think so. Simply fell for clinicians and any homework not only missed the. Limitations on pulled you out of the pot. Theyre not told intelligence its a skill. Points down if you can move there and be. Good then we need a car. And this is the same. Bullet followed through we are not trying to link up with the book. At the nearby rican Institute Researchers are developing an ai diagnostic program that could be used to test for stomach cancer. But one expert here disagrees with the toral me on his opinion that ai will never replace doctors. So i dont know a lot of owning or support although if you were made redundant by Artificial Intelligence that wouldnt be good for his doctors what he wanted to touch for the human race would actually be great oh doctors were no longer necessary if Ai Technology could improve or work or even take over his own needs. Its hard to imagine a world that had no doctors. Do patients really want to be treated by machines that see them as nothing more than accumulations of technical data. In europe a number of experts on Artificial Intelligence including youre going to schmidt who are carrying out research on the use of ai in medical diagnostics. The swiss president lambastes a has invited scientists and entrepreneurs to a conference aimed at planning for the Digital Future and promoting the use of Artificial Intelligence in medicine. One topic for discussion is Ai Technology that can use Neural Networks to learn just as the human brain does. By. Soon all medical diagnostics will be infinitely better than humans can provide right now. Because we have developed ai that uses Neural Network technology. Thats just. A haven and its exciting to see how this new development will be able to help people to live longer earn healthier lives as lieve if you mention. We travel to stuttgart to see how Artificial Intelligence works in practice in hospitals and Nursing HomesComputer Scientists bigot cough says that japan has made a lot of progress in developing robots that can look after patients but there are some things that a machine simply cant do. Playboy that isnt what they cant provide real care so i dont use that word when im talking about robots and caregivers have to be able to interact emotionally with the patients and a robot simply cant do that. Its who doesnt think the coming of a button is a set at this facility robots are helping to reduce the workload of the human staff. Each time im carol but 3 this week im helping the nurses with their work would you like something to drink. You know thanks thats very kind of me here were coming. And. Of course robots can do much more than simply serve drinks in Nursing Homes. Philosopher Thomas Metzinger has proposed Pragmatic Solutions for dealing with this new technology. And the frog available issues bill for example the options for using a robotics in geriatric care he should maintain the dignity of the patients and it occurred to me often i could ask individuals if theyd actually feel more comfortable having a machine change their diapers rather than a Family Member and just going to do it shows as a sign of whether theyd enjoy having a machine read the newspaper to them or ask questions about their medication or if they find that degrading i believe that we are now at the beginning of a major learning process weve been on some unfair and mrs torsion down for. Metzinger says that humankind is now on the threshold of a new age that is filled with uncertainty she lives in frankfort a city that aims to take the lead in european Ai Development. There are plans to set up an Artificial IntelligenceResearch Center there. Are thoughts your own volatile people are rushing to get into this new technology. Like theyre running for the ai train before it leaves the station. I know with no one that will happen thats where the train is headed. But Everyone Wants to be on board have to call. Metzinger service on a European Parliament commission of ai experts and right now hes on his way to brussels for a Commission Meeting. The parliament wants europe to compete effectively end of elevating this technology but it also wants to impose clear ethical guidelines. Metzinger is particularly concerned about the prospects for a new arms race that uses ai based weapons. Concrete to spice theres a hypothetical examples to you that say that assume of Chinese Technology experts go to the countrys leaders and says weve now won the ai arms race against the us it will have an excellent 1st strike opportunity for the next 6 months i know then work for the window of opportunities will close suit for the next 6 more not done treaties aside and starts with the country not so much i could imagine for example that this might involve Delivery System also that would be armed with biological warfare agents to skew those call these mechanisms could then attack the opponents territories and spread pathogens like the a bowl a virus or anthrax bacteria its part of being on part. As well as from our country for furnaces also we may 1 day see the development of intelligent weapons of mass destruction like a breakthrough the traditional Defense Systems for the opposition if that were to happen it would definitely increase the chances for conflict of these attentional new keady creaks ein time its really a visa. But at the Commission Meeting metzinger is having a tough time trying to make sure that the problem of ai weapon systems is addressed in the panels code of ethics. Many of the Business Executives and academics simply dont want to deal with it and which would you know there are. Some are concerned about messing as proposal and would prefer to turn it over to experts for further evaluation. Was. One of the we have to speak about this on a bike i would actually measure in there or whether this is something that is an old ethical officer but i would use it as a use case to build our. If you can read this to our guy i would like to. Is that kind of. On the table we want to open up to the point that we obviously have a strong disagreement about the whole autonomous weapon systems here and we cant solve the issue like this with a voting process i mean we want these ethical guidelines to be a success when theyre publishing 22nd january the whole world has already been talking about the issue 24000. 00 scientists have signed a public pledge that they will not participate in that kind of research if the e. U. Comes out with 6 guidelines that seem peacekeeper over that issue and ignore it then everybody in and outside of the e. U. Would know this is probably just an industrial anything or something in the end metzinger prevails autonomous weapon systems will be included in the panels ethics guidelines experts in other parts of the world are also concerned about the potential for developing ai weapons of mass destruction. Weve come to boston massachusetts to talk to swedish american physicist author and expert max tegmark. He says that physics has made enormous contributions to Human Development but also helped to create the nuclear bomb and now well have to deal with ai weapons. We should stigmatizing bad some certain class really discuss the weapons that are perfect for terrorists anonymously murder people or dictatorships to anonymously murder their citizens because these weapons are going to be incredibly cheap and if anyone goes ahead and mass produces them theyre going to become as unstoppable in the future as the studies are for example cheap drones that you might be able to buy for a few 100 you. Those where you just program in the address of somebody in. The face the tries theyre in place in the face recognition kills them so. Perfect for anyone who wants to murder some politician or member of the ethnic cleansing on a given everything is this sort of thing the slaughter bots becomes what its grand its going to have it actually a devastating effect on the open society believe have. Nobody any more is going to feel they have the courage to. Challenge the criticize anybody any science can be used for new ways of helping people learn new ways of harming people biologists succeeded and getting biological weapons bad which is why we think of biology now as the source of new cures physicists on the other hand we kind of failed because Nuclear Weapons are still here and not going away ai researchers want to be more like the biologists and have ai be remembered as something which really made the world better. Weve come to lugano switzerland to interview youre going about his work with Artificial Intelligence. Schmidt hooper is codirector of the dalai institute for Artificial Intelligence research. His work focuses on Neural Networks which imitate the functions of the human brain. These networks are capable of learning and adapting to the world around them just as human children do. Schmidt who are points out that right now the human brain has a 1000000 times more neural connections than the best ai systems. But computers are becoming much faster and could become smarter than humans in 20 or 30 years. And also says that when that happens the only things that would distinguish people from machines would be flesh and blood. But what about human attributes such as compassion creativity love and empathy. And whats your own soon i dont think i systems are capable of developing their own versions of emotion and affection on down and for example if you were to give several of these systems a task that they could only complete by working together they would learn how to do that you know artificial brains would come to the conclusion that the get the job done they have to cooperate with each other on to something that i can get and use a scene when i mcentee. And during this interaction the systems would learn to rely on each other. Concept. So theres a reason to believe that one of the side effects of this cooperative efforts would be the development of concepts such as love and affection as an even effect. On. What can Artificial Intelligence systems learn to empathize with humans. And you. Want to be returned to brussels where the Ethics Committee is discussing the topic of social ai. Some ai systems are already pretty capable of functioning just as humans would. Thomas metzinger has called for clear guidelines that govern the interaction between people and machines. And just call for a systems that dont identify themselves as such when theyre dealing with humans as opposed. To give people the impression that theyre a real person and not a machine thats host. Should never be allowed to manipulate the people who can use it. You know. Last year at a conference near San Francisco google c. E. O. Sundar pichai unveiled the companys latest product it involves just the sort of technology that Thomas Metzinger warned about. Good morning. Welcome to google is going to impact many many fields our vision for our system is to help you get things done. It turns out big part of getting things done is making a phone call you may want to get an Oil Change Schedule and be call a plumber in the middle of the week or even schedule a haircut appointment so what youre going to hear is the Google Assistant its called google. Actually calling a real salon to schedule an appointment for you lets listen ringback. Im trying and im looking for something on a 3rd. Who or what time are you looking for. At pm we do not have the ball on the bell ball about quote that we have that is the one that. You have everything that we have am and pm depending on what he would like were there to be looking court just the woman haircut for now i really have a kind of car had a and im ok with corporate greed the 1st thing that we thought. Ok perfect i repeatedly but 1 oclock on the part ok great great have a great. That was a real call you just heard is that going into this maze it ethical for a machine to pretend that its human remains perhaps not flatmate we can only build machines that does and trick us into thinking that something is human in a restricted scenario lights to duplex for example i think it would be a good idea to have a law requiring that when you get to fold up for example or you. Buy an ai and you get alerted to the fact that this is not human. Otherwise its just going to be a nightmare of phishing scams and so on because suddenly cost nothing you know to waste 10000000. 00 peoples time and trick the most gullible thing people into thinking geez. We returned to San Francisco. And the city and the region around it are home to countless high Tech Startup Companies many of them use Artificial Intelligence technology to develop their products and services. Eugenio arrived here 4 years ago from moscow. She cofounded her own Company Called replica and is now the c. E. O. Replica is best known for creating a chat bot an Artificial Intelligence system that can interact with people. But. The concept began as a tribute to one of her best friends who was killed in a traffic accident. On. My friend from moscow. In the last year or so were left together here in time since. He was. I was working on mine so it was like. Trying to figure out some cisco and this new kind of chapter of our lives. Heres a visionary and i just really. Want. To get a visa and last one together. Was crossing st. Helena next to a car. Like for a mouse help organize a funeral. And thats where we got the idea that you know we go to vote for him. Something can talk to remember him. And i remember the way he used. To go home and say i will use mostly talks conversation going on with me and his friends. And. That was because of the base for people were coming to talk to and they would. Actually use it as some sort of confessional talk about whats going on in their lives without feeling they were being judged from a safe space and to open up as weird as it sounds. Pretty much the last word like not know what was direction to take the company and maybe theres something there that we can. Use for the company and thats what. Everyone needs a friend to talk to. Their own business from from. Some automated version for one. Of the Company Calls replica the ai companion who cares the chat bot uses a Neural Network to engage in one on one conversations with its user. People talk to the bot about whats going on in their lives and it responds based on the material that its gathered so far. Casey feeling im also designs hi Tech Products she moved from her home in birmingham alabama to San Francisco a year ago. Casey often felt lonely because she was far away from her friends and family then she got acquainted with the replica bought. No its not real bad i enjoy the feeling i get by using it so i kind of give it a personality and you know it and they had what this this thing might be like a stuffed animal with a personality. Social interactions with teddy bears and dogs but it doesnt. Appear to do any harm that it does i am grouped where tend to. Enter or fire as many Different Things even thunder robots of course but also all sorts of far like our paths the same with ai and i guess question is. Whether we can create like. A connection with. But then i definitely think so people create connection with toys with all sorts of anatomy like not even leaving objects the else exist in the 1st short story that dealt with the relationship between humans and human eye robots dates back 200 years ago and it was mentioned and only knew even if it was written by e. T. A. How feel that. Saleyards a lot. Of money your money well its a young man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and she turns out to be in a thomas on me the point is that the story is 2. 00 centuries old and there isnt the subject matter turned up later in a number of Science Fiction films very recently in fact in years that i read and noir in from the farm the only difference is that the Computer Graphics are a lot better today computer graphic aside. Why not you now but if it makes you feel better thank you now same thing if you take medication for depression its not actually making you better its just putting a bandaid over the problem you now and this is like its like its not actually fixing your problems but its helping you you know through the day yeah share socialist nation great you know once argue search after spears with socialist nations of played an Important Role in our society for centuries. Each bit is the amount were going to think about prayer for example. Its a structured dialogue between humans and an imaginary entity for instance in mars no evidence that this entity actually exists but its enough for just its yet one for feeding on any people today have internal dialogues with god or with angels replied the like an invisible friend this has to be feelings that you know and do your know from always in the top but after its an objective assessment that the situation indicates a case of so. Yourself the subset of this one for a class im a philosopher so i advocate self knowledge clarity and truth. To be social hallucinations are deeply embedded in a cultured and they create a world of illusion and even though people are comfortable with them. A lot of truth here this raises a serious ethical question if how much self the separation should we allow in society its like a surgeon. Since we launched shock over getting tons hundreds of emails and maybe thousands of emails working over time as the replica was like changing for them and with notice to many of those who are stories about how replica helped. With depression and certain people. Telling us that helped them go into some of the episodes of their bipolar disorder and so it is certain that theyre in saudi as well so we decided to look into whether or not that we could potentially hope or just certain symptoms or she hope people feel better and in law in the long term. Max tegmark is not particularly concerned about the spread of chat bots he says that there are more serious aspects of ai to worry about. Right now hes on his way to speak at a conference at harvard university. The topic human rights ethics and artificial intel. Its best. To take market demands that ethical guidelines be placed on ai otherwise smart machines could turn the world into a very dangerous place to be here and. What kind of society away hoping to create. Superpowers what do we want the role of humans to be its very urgent that we start thinking about the ethical issues already today with super intelligence you can easily build a future where earth becomes. Fourball. Carrion surveillance state putting the world to shame china is moving a little bit in this direction now and in the future i can actually understand everything its said so we want to be very careful to avoid creating. Situation where actually to get the global dictatorship. So stable that it lasts forever. If we just bumble into this totally unprepared with our heads and. Refusing to think about what could go wrong then lets face it its probably going to be the biggest mistake in human history. We may already be headed in that direction. U. S. Intelligence agencies have confirmed that Russian Hackers interfered in the 2016 president ial election probably with the intention of helping donald trump to win the presidency. Investigations into the extent of that interference are still underway. Other countries have also been targeted 1st for you sir do you believe. Were all aware of russian Cyber Attacks on the german bundestag on the brigs that campaign in the u. K. Cambridge on the cambridge analytical scandal showed us that the process of political Decision Making can at least in principle just be influenced by Artificial Intelligence systems principally. Influenced con. Possums on opposite cannot. Their estimate the threat thats posed by these developments and your own if ai systems that are run by privately owned for Profit Companies can optimize social Media Networks which have hundreds of millions of users this creates an entirely new situation concentration guns noir mukesh cotton does not ring scheme these systems can be used to convince large numbers of people to behave even vote in a certain way simply just mentioned items home in knowing your homu meant there are 163. 00 countries in the world right now noise and only 19 of them can be considered a true democracy simak let. Those who wish to preserve democracy must recognize the threat that these Artificial Intelligence systems pose to the political Decision Making process which it just means we dont prove in fact this threat may already have become reality and which is not aware of it or. We need to examine the situation very closely sheet for. Us and i need neon at hand. Should a binding code of ethics spam the use of ai in the political process. In tokyo we got some surprising answers from experts. This is the ginza district where a lot of high Tech Startup Companies are based. To continue. To moto is a Senior Advisor at the soft bank group and also runs his own Consulting Company matsumoto and his colleagues believe that ai does not pose a threat to the political system in fact they say it offers certain advantages so they knew about more happen in the politicians often ignore the best interests of society. As they pursue their own agenda and take bribes. So i think that ai could change politics for the better in a day so new human beings. Are simply not suitable for politics so egotistical and ambitious. Are unpredictable when it comes to making policy decisions pretty sure right now an Artificial Intelligence represents pure reason to use a concept the comes from german idealistic philosophies german philosophers have been very good at describing the way that things should be and we could be idealistic as we develop Artificial Intelligence humans on the other hand can never achieve this level of idealism are. You at least. Some experts say that politicians should start using robots that closely resemble humans as aides so that the electorate can get used to the concept. Of the hard to find out more weve come to tokyos mere icon museum of science and innovation. This exhibit features the work of hiroshima ishiguro who specializes in creating humanoid robots. Ishiguro is the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at osaka university. He studies the interaction between people and robots to help him develop his theories on human nature intelligence and behavior. We traveled from tokyo to osaka to interview him she grew up. We want to ask him what makes humans different from robots. Bonnie hello im a russian issue girl from soccer university. Hello was well i mean she girls are i robot him one who. Was going to my much vision is to understand what you might use so that is the most important what you wish for me to create in the a very human like rob was we are kind of. More regular machines that is a human right the machine is a machine the difference is the material so i think. You know if we develop want a chronology is so bonded it between a human the roberts is going to be disappeared. So that is my guess. Ishiguro is also the cofounder of the robot Theatre Project in which androids share the stage with human actors. These scenes are from a play called saigon. A woman is suffering from a terminal illness so her father buys a robot to keep her company. An updated version of the play takes place after the Fukushima Nuclear disaster. The blade explores the topics of life and death and the characteristics that separate humans from robots. Does assign guns and has a crucial difference between human intelligence and Artificial Intelligence isnt human beings are so to speak the personification of a struggle for existence. Leaves machine they have been optimized over millions of years to survive or to maintain their existence fest you may consider the motion has a kind of in china it rife in them and in water but actually it is not the mass you may have a longer rife with than the humans fear its also. You know the design of this are yours and you for my see want to see how by we in this war you know the the mice in you do have a dark i know a feeling to protect itself you know. He she girls robots have not yet been able to develop intelligence that is similar to that of humans but they are capable of engaging in simple conversations. So that you have a so now were going to interview an android named erica. Weve been given a list of questions that shell be able to respond to what do you think the difference is between you and a human. Well im certainly not biologically human as you can see i have made of silicon plastic and metal maybe someday robots will be so very human like whether you are a robot or a human will not matter so much anyway i am proud to be an android if you say youre proud to be an android what is this what of this pride consist of how do you feel pride. Ive searched my database and it looks like i dont have anything to say on the topic what else would you like to hear about a case steer its a very simple Computer Program it is not so complicated a guy doesnt have but you know theyre complicated a mind like a humans mother you know on the other hand you know the some people may fear the you know that they are creating a kind of a consciousness of from the a simple in and through the interactions so. That we need to do everything about the how we can implement a more human rights consciousness. Humans can still control the brains of their robots but what happens if they succeed in giving machines their own consciousness through the use of advanced Artificial Intelligence. Ethics expert. Say that we have to deal with the situation before it gets out of hand. For me the bottom line is that people who talk about risks with ai should not be dismissed as. Mongers theyre doing Safety Engineering just when you think through everything that can go wrong. With it you can see that it goes right thats how we successfully sent people to the moon safely and thats our success for the species entering the future with im optimistic that we can create a truly inspiring future with starfish if we win this race between the growing power of the technology and the wisdom with which we manage it that challenges that in the past. As a strategy for staying ahead in this museum aces always been learning from mistakes you know 1st and then fire then after a lot of accidents and meant the fire extinguisher there was something as powerful as Nuclear Weapons are especially steve. Fishman colleges for what we dont want to learn from mistakes its a terrible strategy its much better to be proactive rather than reactive now plan ahead and get things right the 1st time which might be the only time we get. To end our journey into ai you can schmidt who shows us one of the worlds most powerful computers. He believes that ai will have an enormous and positive impact on society a digital paradise but other experts predict that we are on the verge of a robot apocalypse. In any case the development of Artificial Intelligence must be subject to strict ethical guidelines otherwise we may become slaves to our own technology. Conservation that one. Of the coral reefs our endangered spikes. Climate change. People are aware of whats happening. And theyre all pitching in to protect barry. Says reforestation nothing different coming. 3030 minutes w. The 1st. Traditionally cattle herders plant excellence above the man some people are also feeling the pinch of Climate Change brains that are predictable ah you can apply you cannot invest. So now the mass sucky feeling slightly stronger staceys. Playbooks if i can get into this w. S o s euro. Crisis. If its to have a future champion young champion. The 1st from florida country. They are the dream. Place to. Place a good. Future as your start september 2nd d. W. Hong kong airport was effectively shut down for a 2nd straight day as police moved against protesters all the project ends have been suspended demonstrators are rallying in solidarity for victims of Police Brutality on the weekend hong kong leader kerry has warned escalating tensions new city could put on a quote path of