Peertopeer lending. There are some credit qualifications on both sides. The bank that provides the credit evaluation is out of the mix. Is that a good thing or a bad thing . Society started off with the barter system before. The first bank was formed i think it is great. System,on, the payment these are all innovations. If there is a market for it and they can do it efficiently and manage the credit risk, god bless them. It going to end in tears . With a set of problems emerging . Nothing is riskfree, particularly around money. Understand thee credit risks they are taking. What really matters is getting your capital back first. Spoken like a true banker. I have a lot more questions, but no more time. [applause] m. I. T. Researcher Andrew Mcafee talks about the new machine age. He spoke with david brooks for 20 minutes. Two very fun folks. Your services are no longer needed, meet the robot. We have Andrew Mcafee, who has one of the hottest books on the market right now. Colonist forooks
Peertopeer lending. There are some credit qualifications on both sides. The bank that provides the credit evaluation is out of the mix. Is that a good thing or a bad thing . Society started off with the barter system before. The first bank was formed i think it is great. Innovation, the payment system, these are all innovations. If there is a market for it and they can do it efficiently and manage the credit risk, god bless them. Is it going to end in tears . With a set of problems emerging . Nothing is riskfree, particularly around money. Again, if people understand the credit risks they are taking. What really matters is getting your capital back first. Spoken like a true banker. I have a lot more questions, but no more time. [applause] new yorkird annual 20as festival, this is minutes. We have two very fun folks. We have andrew mcafee, who has one of the hottest books on the market right now. With david brooks, columnist for the New York Times. At our opening dinner, david gave a ri
There are great quotes from now the cost talking about these mystical chess grandmasters. Once computers got better, we looked in the rearview window and said, this is just pattern matching. I had the chance to talk to gary and he was the world chess champion. Between intelligence. There are great quotes from now when he first became world champion, he played 32 simultaneous matches against the best chess playing computers and he won 320. 10 years later, ibm beat him in a pretty close match and now it is not even close. They asked how he would prepare for a match against a computer and he said, i would so head to head is completely boring. The machines have raced ahead except when we are able to combine human ability and digital ability and play these freestyle tournaments where any team comes together. And i get optimistic as a person again because it turns out that the right team will beat a grand master or a chess supercomputer or a grand master with a supercomputer. The right team
Book about economics and then somebody shows you what that actually means. Machines dont think. In the same way, there is a great pioneer of Artificial Intelligence that said airplanes dont flap their wings. We see cool stuff going on in nature and we build machines that get there. When i talk to these uber geeks and i say, are you building artificial brains, they generally say i have no idea how the brain works. I am solving an engineering problem. There are guys who are trying to reverse engineer the brain and put that in silicon. If they are successful, it will take them along time. The terminator or the matrix nightmare is not the one i find myself waking up screaming from. I would prefer machine to do it or set of rulebased checklists . Or i dont want that . I walk into a hospital and i have some kidney problem and i probably want the checklist. Im going on a date, i dont want the checklist. No, you do want the checklist. [laughter] social life at m. I. T. We should be skeptical a
Im going to give you another question to avoid. Lets start to where the crisis hit the fan. Bear stearns has been saved. Lehman brothers was the next one up. We can talk about whether they could or couldnt but in your mind, was that the right decision as when liam fell and well leave the discussion to go for a briefing with the spokesman, rear admiral john kirby. [captioning performed by National Captioning Institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org as you may recall and i talked about this before, a couple of weeks ago, secretary hagel led a task force to accelerate resupply efforts and the Central Government of iraq and baghdad. Secretary hagel will announce today that seven additional ations have committed to helping provide Kurdish Forces urgently needed arms and question. Operations have already begun. The secretary is grateful to each of these allies for working alongside the United States mi