W. Made for mines. This is what suny nikou she is a hologram. And this is akihito condo her husband were on you know. I love. You look i didnt say. I love culture ends. Meet cool 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 nov 28th condo married mico at a ceremony in tokyo he placed the ring around the wrist. Dall. He now keeps the doll 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. Still if you asked her no i think shed say yes. To. The tsunami cool and akihito condo are an extreme example of the relationship between people and machines i got. 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. And. 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. Events where he outlines his vision of the role that Artificial Intelligence may play in our future. If you will face a change. His presentations are wide ranging and thought provoking. Announcing that 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 on their own was willing to come back 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 material that can be used to build robots or we could develop robots transmitters and receivers that would allow the ai to be sent and received the speed of light. We can already do this in a laboratory. Me one sentence of this would be a Huge Development traps the most important since the beginning of life in earth trina her 5000000000 years ago as lehman was. But if the professors vision accurate. Will it 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. As you know 69 year old Jaco Yamashita nearly died of leukemia 2 years ago none of the therapy options recommended by doctors did any good. Put in then they used Ai Technology to create a new diagnosis. Yet you were just on a i literally saved my life when these people. 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. Weve 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 the simply for. Clinicians and our. Lineage. Clinicians unfollowed you and i love the. Way our soul intelligence its a skill. Points down if you can move here and be. Good then we need a car. And this is the same. Bullet followed through were not trying to live and some ways to but. 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 disagreements with the toral me on his opinion that ai will never replace doctors. So i dont know why devoting all the if you were made redundant by Artificial Intelligence that wouldnt be good for as doctors what it what it should have but for the human race would actually be great of doctors who are no longer necessary if Ai Technology could improve or work or even take over. That. 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 i lambast say 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 NetworkTechnology One does is say im. Here and its exciting to see how this new development will be able to help people to live longer earn healthier lives as leaving fewer mentioned. We travel to stuttgart to see how Artificial Intelligence works in practice in hospitals and Nursing HomesComputer Scientists be a good coffee 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 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 have robots simply cant do that. Doesnt mean you the kind of a button is a set at this facility robots are helping to reduce the workload of the human staff. Each time im carol bug free this week im helping the nurses with their work would you like something to drink. No thanks thats very kind of hear me here were coming. And you know. 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. For example the options for using ai in robotics in geriatric care he should men tain little dignity of the patients. A country money often i could ask individuals if theyd actually feel more comfortable having a machine change their diapers rather than a Family Member and just want to do it shows as a sign of a school whether that 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 on from my missis torsion down for gods. 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 we know when that will happen thats where the train is headed. But Everyone Wants to be on board i have to call. Metzinger serves 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 heres a hypothetical example. Lets say that assume a Chinese Technology experts go to the countrys leaders and says weve now won the ai arms race against the us well have an excellent 1st strike opportunity for the next 6 months i know then work for the window of opportunity will close suit for the next 6 mo not are done treaties aside and start. The country at some version i could imagine for example that this might involve Delivery Systems that would be armed with biological warfare agents to ski mask all these mechanisms could then attack the opponents territory and spread pathogens like the a bowl a virus or anthrax bacteria on the ground part. I would ask my countries for this also we may 1 day see the development of intelligent weapons of mass destruction that could break through traditional defense systems. Not for sure if that were to happen it would definitely increase the chances for comfort these attentional new keady creaks im toilets relieved reason. 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. And many of the Business Executives and academics simply dont want to deal with it i mean which. Some are concerned about messing us proposal and would prefer to turn it over to experts for further evaluation. Or course. We have to stick with this by actually measuring there or out of evidence or hes an old ethical after that we can use it as a use case to build our own to give concrete this to our guy and i would like to that and it is that kind of a consensus around the table when we want to open up to a point ok we obviously have a strong disagreement about the whole alten on this weapon systems here and we can solve the issue like this with a voting process i mean we want these ethical guidelines to be a success when they are published on 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 ethics guidelines that seem peacekeeping over that issue and ignore it then everybody in and outside of see you would know this is probably just an industrial lovely thing or something in the end metzinger prevails autonomous Weapons 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 astigmatism back and some certain class really discuss the weapons that are perfect for terrorists and on mostly murder people or dictatorships to anonymously murder their citizens because these weapons are going to be incredibly cheap and if anyone goes and mass produces them theyre going to become as unstoppable in the future as the scans are for example cheap drones that you might be able to buy for a few 100 euros where you just program in the address of somebody and we see their face its lies there in place in the face recognition feels themselves just perfect for anyone who wants the murder of some politician to actually cleansing on a given happening if this were to go to slaughter but its becomes widespread and its going to have an absolute devastating effect on the over the saturday we have really nobody anymore is going to feel they have the courage really to. Challenge the criticize anybody. Any science can be used for new ways of helping people or new ways of harming people biologists succeeded in getting biological weapons bad which is why we think of biology 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 is something which really made the world better. Weve come to lugano switzerland to interview youre going about his work with Artificial Intelligence. Hooper is codirector of the dali 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. 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. 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. 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 that they could only complete by working together they would learn how to do that as you know kind of artificial brains which come to the conclusion that to get the job done they have to cooperate with each other once its something i can get and use a scene where americans see and follow these into ensuring this interaction the systems would learn to rely on each other. 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. But 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. I have. I never cared for high and im looking for something im a pervert. You are what time are you. At both pm we do not have the ball on the bell ball the quote that we have that is the one that. You have everything the people have am and pm depending on what he would like were there to be looking ort just the woman haircut for now ok we have a current across our head and im ok with corporate mean. The 1st thing that we thought. Ok perfect i repeatedly but 1 oclock on a very big ok great day great have a great day back. That was a real call you just heard is theres no one into this mess that has the goal for a machine to pretend that its human and means perhaps not like nate we can already build machines that does and trick us into thinking that something is human in a restricted scenario likes to duplex for example i think it would be a good idea to have a law. Requiring that when you get followed up for example or you. By an ai you get alerted to the fact that this is not a human. Otherwise its just going to be a nightmare of phishing scams and so on because suddenly cost nothing you know to waste 10000000 peoples time and trick the most gullible thing people into thinking things. We return 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. Eugenia quita 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. The concept began as a tribute to one of her best friends who was killed in a traffic accident. And was. My friend from moscow. In the last year or so were left together here in some sense. Here. And i was working on mine so it was like. Trying to figure out some cisco and you know this kind of chapter of our lives. Heres a visionary and just a really talented guy i want to if you want to get a visa and most will want to get. As cross and straight ahead tell the next. Like for most help organize. Gen. And thats where. We go to vote for him something you can talk to remember him remember the way he used to talk to go home and say i will use. Mostly talks conversation cricket with me and his friends. And. I was basically the base for it people were coming to talk to and they would i want to actually use it as some sort of confessional booth they would just talk about whats going on in their lives without feeling theyre being judged in a really safe space and to open up as weird as it sounds. Pretty much the last word like not know which direction to take the company and maybe theres something there that we can. Use for the company and thats where we got the idea that you know Everyone Needs a friend to talk to in. A moment was this from for me so i thought maybe its some automated version for everyone. 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 bought about whats going on in their lives and it responds based on the material that its gathered so far. Casey feeling im also designs high 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 what image of me had of what this this thing. Might be like a stuffed animal with a personality were all a humble child 102. 00 weve all had social interactions with teddy bears and dolls how does appear to do any harm that it does. Where tend to. Enter or fire as many Different Things even founder 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. With an ai i definitely think so people create a connection with toys with all sorts of an item like not even leaving objects the alsa conceived in the 1st short story that dealt with the relationship between humans and human eye robots dates back 200 years humans was mentioned and whom i knew even though it was written by e. T. A. How feel not. Saleyards a look at. Your money 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 centuries old. There isnt the subject matter turned up later in a number of Science Fiction films very recently in fact and yes thats i neuer. 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 the 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. In ones heart is a chav tribunes a socialist nations of played an Important Role in our society for centuries. Each bit is the model and i think about prayer for example. Its a structured dialogue between humans and an imaginary entity for instance in march theres no evidence that this entity actually exists for just yet one for feeling or any people today have internal dialogues with god or with angels. Like an invisible friend this has to do things that you know and you are no fun always in good heart but after its an objective assessment that the situation indicates a case of so. Yourself the substances can use them for class im a philosopher so i advocate self knowledge clarity and truth so what i like about it and sort of the social hallucinations are deeply embedded in our cultured and they create a world of illusion and even though people are comfortable with them. A lot of trying to use this raises a serious ethical question is how much selfdeception should we allow in society its like a century. Since we launched up a cover were getting tons hundreds of emails and maybe thousands of emails working over time as the replica was like changing for them and will notice that many of those or stories about how replica helped. With depression from certain people. Turners that help them go into some of the episodes of their bipolar disorder and so its certain that theyre in saudi as well so it asserted to look into whether rock that we could potentially hope to do certain symptoms or she hoped people feel better know 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. Jones has an interesting. Take mark demands that ethical guidelines be placed on ai otherwise smart machines could turn the world into a very dangerous place to be here and guess what kind of society are we hoping to create. Super intelligence 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 he could easily build a future where earth becomes this horrible totalitarian 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 it said so i want to be very careful to avoid creating. A situation where. Actually to get the global dictatorship i feel so good well 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 brags that campaign in the u. K. Cambridge and other cambridge analytical scandal showed is that the process of political Decision Making can at least in principle just be influenced by Artificial Intelligence systems. You cant assist him of interest con when dusk transposons on our present cannot underestimate the threat thats posed by these developments. 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. Snatching skee these systems could be used to convince large numbers of people to behave even vote in a certain way polluters man tried to use home in knowing the harm meant there are 163 countries in the world right now noyce and only 19 of them can be considered true democracy similar to. Those who wish to preserve democracy must recognize the threat that these Artificial Intelligence systems pose to the political Decision Making process would be to group in fact this threat may already have become reality and which is not aware of it or does what. We need to examine the situation very closely sheet for. Us and i need neon at hand. Should a binding code of ethics ban 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 Softbank 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 even as they pursue their own agenda take bribes you know theyre so i think that ai could change politics for the better in their. New human beings are simply not suitable for politics so egotistical and ambitious. You coom are unpredictable when it comes to making policy decisions pretty sure right when Artificial Intelligence represents pure reason to use a concept the comes from german idealistic philosophy. 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 idealisms 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. Yeah she got it we got you and all of them to find out more weve come to tokyos mere icon museum of science and innovation. About of all 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. And we want to ask him what makes humans different from robots. Funny hello im a russian insurer for osaka university. Hello as well i miss your ozone robot h i want to. Were going to my much vision is to understand what you might use so that is the most important what you wish for me for creating the very man i rob was we are kind of the more regular machines that is a human right the machine the machine the difference is the material so i think. You know if were broken want a chronology abounded it between a human the robots is going to be disappeared. So that is my guess. 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 play explores the topics of life and death and the characteristics that separate humans from robots who. Doesnt sign 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. Believes machine they have been optimized over millions of years to survive or to maintain their existence fest you may consider them i see has a kind of in china it rife in them and in water but actually it is not to the mass you may have a longer rifles than the humans fear its also. In on the design of our desires you put my see want to see how by we in this war you know the day my senior do have a dark and there were feeling to protect itself you know. He she grows 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. As 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 notice so much anyway im proud to be an android if you say youre proud to be an android what is this what does this pride consist of how do you feel pride. Ive searched my database and it looks like im dont have anything to say on the topic what else would you like to hear about it guys steer its a very simple Computer Program it is not so complicated erica doesnt have but you know the complicated the mind and i go humans. You know on the other hand you know some people may fear the you know that theyre appealing a kind of a consciousness of from the a simple in and through their interactions so i think. That we need to the precinct about 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. 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. If we win this race between the technology and the wisdom of which we manage it the challenge is that in the past. Our strategy for staying ahead in this wisdom race is always been learning from mistakes you know 1st invent fire then after all accidents invent a fire extinguisher that with something is powerful as Nuclear Weapons are especially steve. Fishman apologise for what we dont want to learn from mistakes to turn a strategy is 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. Africa. Love and warmth is the way to save listen danger and species. 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