A few years ago, McKinsey had estimated that about half of worker hours worldwide were spent on tasks that could be automated. Now its raising the figure to as high as 60-70%.
Of all of our lives. in the last 2a hours, google unveiled plans to introduce ai into its search engine. the software will automatically craft answers to open ended questions. this follows a wave of recent announcements from rival tech firms about their own advancements with al, which many believe could quickly revolutionise the way we all live and work. such rapid technological advancement brings new challenges and questions over how best to regulate. is the ai boom an opportunity to be seized on, a chance for economic growth and fresh thinking? could it, at the same time, be a risk to parts of life we all hold dear? the european parliament was today debating new eu legislation to restrict ai, following the lead of other countries, including china. here in the uk, the government s taken a different approach. we ll discuss all of this in a moment. first, here s kate. it has been described as the ai arms race, a new wave of genus of artificial intelligence, which can produce pictures or