during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. we will cue it. we re now really 13 days outside these mid-terms. control of congress clearly hangs in the balance. we re in the homestretch, people fighting for the votes and have this record breaking early turnout. what does it mean? we re going to go to one of the national experts who s been exactly in this position 13 days out. michael steele, look around left, right, center. he s here in one second. michael stands by. over 12 million people have now voted. that smashes the turnout totals at this point in 2018, which was the first election since trump became president. you remember how energized people were then. i can only tell you what s happening as it happens. i can t predict. but right now as of tonight we re seeing huge intensity in these mid-terms. we re also seeing reaction in isthese big debates, pennsylvania senate, new questions for fetterman and the democrats,
the same again? what we were seeing was the emergence of something called generative ai, and although this was only a tiny part of artificial intelligence as a whole, it got us all talking about the possibilities and the risks. to the evening, when we re watching our favourite streaming service and it s recommending what to watch. but suddenly, people were interested and fear seemed to transcend excitement. and next week, world leaders are going to be meeting at bletchley park, the world famous computing site, for the ai summit, to discuss all of the issues that al has kicked up. so, we thought we d give you a reminder of some of those issues, plus some of the benefits of letting computers learn from billions trillions of pieces of data. we start with ben derico in chicago, and then marc cieslak s in scotland. ai art has taken a massive leap recently. i mean, this one sold for over $400,000 at an auction at christie s in 2018. with image generators like dall e and stable di
in a dramatic final. morning, all. heavy overnight rain continues to push its way steadily north and east. it will linger for much of the day across southern and eastern scotland accompanied by gail with gusts of winds. elsewhere it is a blustery sunday afternoon, sunny spells and scattered showers, but some of those will be heavy in bunbury. all of those details coming up bunbury. all of those details coming up shortly. heavy and thundery. it s sunday october 29. our main story: the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has warned that the war with hamas will be long and difficult after his ground troops entered gaza, supported by heavy air strikes. israel has told residents of gaza city to leave what it calls the battlefield , claiming more humanitarian aid will be available further south. israel says it is targeting hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the uk government, following the attacks of october 7 that killed 1,400 people and saw mo
images, pictures of things that have never actually existed. and then came text. at the back end of 2022, ai chatbot chatgpt emerged and within a few months people were in a frenzy. werejobs, education, love letters ever going to be the same again? what we were seeing was the emergence of something called generative ai, and although this was only a tiny part of artificial intelligence as a whole, it got us all talking about the possibilities and the risks. and for years we ve been talking about how ai can enhance our lives, from the moment we wake up in the morning and our smartphone recognises our faces to the evening when we re watching our favourite streaming service and it s recommending what to watch. but suddenly people were interested and fear seemed to transcend excitement. and next week, world leaders are going to be meeting at bletchley park, the world famous computing site, for the ai summit, to discuss all of the issues that al has kicked up. so we thought we d gi