Couple of years ago. Just a couple of years ago. We give a games legend something to play with. Thank you. And drop and give me 20. For decades, scientists All Around The World have been trying to create a machine that can match our intelligence. And nowadays, artificially intelligent algorithms can perform for a long time scientists have been the use in games like chess, drafts and go as a benchmark for testing ai. And thats because all these games have a certain amount of unpredictability built into them. Namely, their human opponents. But this week the ai community has been celebrating a big win after a Poker Playing Algorithm called liberatus defeated four top Human Players in a 20 day match of heads up no limit Texas Hold Em poker. Ive been using poker as a benchmark for 12 years. Now the best ai has surpassed the level of the best humans in the strategic reasoning under imperfect information. But even at this big win is only a little step towards creating a general artificial. Lts an. Incredible time. And its very hard to forecast. You know, what can these things do . Its a hard thing to think through, and has really incredible possibilities. But its, i think its impossible to forecast accurately. Speech has been another big challenge for al researchers. Personal assistants and chat bots are becoming more sophisticated, but they so far cant fool us into thinking that theyre human. But what if you thought you were talking to another person . Konnichiwa. Do you speak english . Irrashaimase. Youkoso. Would that make you more likely to trust it . And develop a relationship . Well, two researchers at the London School of economics came up with an experiment to see if we would communicate better with al if its messages were delivered to us by a human. They call this Computer Human Hybrid the echoborg. And to explore the concept, Jane Copestick found herself becoming an echoborg herself. The echoborg was inspired by research from stanley milgram. He is the professor behind the controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s, to see if people would deliver electric shocks to others if instructed to buy an authority figure. Milgram also studied body perception, to determine if we hold preformed opinions of other people based on their looks. By using hidden earpieces, people could speak someone elses thoughts through their own body. The echoborg has updated this research for the 21st century, to see if people will react better to Artificial Intelligence. Such as the messages from an online chat bot. If they are being delivered by a human. Im in the first stages of testing this out by becoming an echoborg myself. Im starting my speech shadowing practice. The first step in becoming a fully fledged echoborg. The professors have told me this process will take at least eight hours for me to get any good at it. Im starting my first practice withjk rowlings harvard commencement speech. Members of the Harvard Corporation and the board of overseers. By shadowing speech, i should be able to quickly repeat back the messages from a chat bot so people wont realise they arent my own thoughts. It may seem something paradox, but theres horses in the cow. I did something and scuttled somewhere. Now, to put it to the test, im meeting creator professor Alex Gillespie at the London School of economics. Hello, how are you doing . Great to see you, coming. And kevin corti, who called in on skype. So with that go round your neck . That goes around your neck. First step. Kevin is using a chat bot called rose, which is not preprogrammed. The most noticeable problem in becoming a convincing ai are the delays while rose thinks of a response to the question. Where do you come from . I was born in san francisco. Really . In united states. When were you born . Couple of years ago. Just a couple of years ago . Are you a chat bot . Im a human. I thought for a moment you might be a chat bot. Republic of ireland and croatia and france. My brothers from ireland. Really . A magical place full of rain and crazy people. She says. Well. That was. Interesting. Weird. What you notices, they tend to be quite disconnected. It takes each sentence as a stand alone sentence. Some of them will speak like they are Artificial Intelligence, and some of them will pretend not to be. So this ones pretending not to be. But although last time i spoke to which it said it was Artificial Intelligence. Oh, its confused. Our final test for the echoborg was to bring it on stage in front of an audience of 700 people at the bbc future conference in australia. What a lot of humans find difficult. What is the capital of australia . Canberra. 0k, good. And what is 235 multiplied by 676 . I think its 158,860. Thats pretty impressive. Here and now. How do i know you are human, how do you know im human . Because i believe. You believe . Because i appreciate beauty. Because people saw me in the room. Go ask them. In fact, some of the audience members were fooled. 0ne thought it was a real conversation with a human, not an Artificial Intelligence. Based on my appearance. Some people thought you didnt want to talk about Artificial Intelligence. That you were trying to avoid the question, they really thought you were trying to avoid the questions. Someone even said, had it been a man would it have been perceived differently . I think so. Without becoming fully fledged echoborgs, we are already giving a voice to Artificial Intelligence everyday. Through the algorithms guiding our news consumption, to our Shopping Habits and online searches. Were bringing al to life more and more. Projects like the echoborg let us reflect on what this means for our ai future and perhaps even what it means to be human. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that facebook lost 500 million in a lawsuit. The case centres around the creation of the oculus ribbed Virtual Reality headset. The us Court Ordered the payment after a jury found facebook owned vr Outfit 0culus used Computer Code belonging to zenimax, a Media Company which has a subsidiary which produces the video game doom. Facebook is appealing the ruling. They say you shouldnt cry over spilt milk. What about a bruised peach . 0nline Supermarket 0cado is testing a robot hand that can pack fruits and vegetables without damaging them. At the moment, human beings pack more fragile items, like bananas and eggs. But its notjust fragile foodstuffs feeling the pinch from robotic appendages. Researchers at mit have created a claw made from hydrogel, that can pick up a live fish without causing it any harm. Sunday the team hopes the Eellike Robot can be used to help with surgery. Next, forget the selfie stick, so 2015, its all about the selfie drone these days. Currently being crowd funded, the air selfie is a portable flying camera built into a mobile phone cover. And, as its carried around with your mobile phone, never miss an opportunity for Internet Narcissism ever again. If youre a fan of metal gear solid, you also be a fan of its creator, hideo kojima. Considered the father of the stealth game genre. The Metal Gear Franchise was a success at least in part thanks to his leadership. But now hes working on a new game called death stranding, which he showed to the world at the e3 video games conference last year. We sent stefan powell, ace Radio One News beat reporter, to meet hideo kojima injapan and get an exclusive tour of tokyo and his studio. Were on our way to the studio now and its been just over a year since he left konami and set up on his own. And we dont really know what hes been doing in that time. We know a little bit about his new project, death stranding, thats coming to the playstation four at some point. Hopefully we get to find out a little bit more and maybe we get a glimpse into the future and whats come as well. Before that, though, theres the traditional gift exchange. A japanese custom. We went with lego and doctor who. I mean, what are you supposed to get a man who stood in front of a cabinet full of Lifetime Achievement awards . From the bbc. I dont know if you like doctor who. And i hear you are a bit of a lego fan. 0n the quiet. Thank you. Kojima isnt your average game designer. And this isnt your average office, either. Wow or your average company mascot, for that matter. Ifeel like im in a sci fi film. The man credited with changing the way many people approached game design is not taking his new venture lightly. He wants his next step is to bejust as successful as his first. Clearing his mind of some of the negativity of recent years. Focusing instead on the future, new titles, new projects, and new ideas. Translation i worked at my Previous Company for 30 years, and gained a lot of experience. So im very appreciative of that. But technology improves, the games market and the users change. But what i do best, making games, does not really change, so im not worried about embarking on this new journey. The studio itself is pretty small, but has Everything Kojima and his team need to crack on with the first challenge on the horizon. The playstation for exclusive, death stranding. Details about which are still top secret. We tried. But whatever it turned out to be, hes not playing it safe. Translation we want this game to be something people can get into easily, but after they play for an hour or two they start to notice something a little different. Its something they havent played before. Whenever i create something new, some people like it and some people dont. For example, when i first created a stealth game some people really wanted to just fight, so they didnt really like it. I want to create an experience that has the same effect on people. The building up of his own studio is also a source of inspiration. A journey that has been far more difficult than many would imagine
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