Neil lawrence, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you. Now, you are a computer scientist, but it seems to me, as you ve journeyed deep into the potentiality of artificial intelligence, you ve also thought a great deal about human intelligence and what is so very special and unique about us humans. Can you try to put that into words? yeah, i think, for me, what we ve seen with a lot of the artificial intelligence debate has been a sort of naturally narcissistic in tendency to think about our intelligence. And what i think it does is offers the opportunity to introspect about our intelligence, to stand in a different place, to look at a different type of information processing, that that s done by a computer, and use our understanding of that, which we built and created, so we understand it, to look back and think about what s special about us. Is intelligence the right word to use when it comes to discussing what machines can do in this
Pandemic that has already claimed more than 225,000 american lives. We are 00 mere eight days away we are a mere eight days a away from a president ial election. Donald trump announced his nomination of judge barrett even before we could fully mourn the death of the great Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. And Senate Republicans then rushed this nomination to the senate floor. In doing so, they violated the rule that their leader, Mitch Mcconnell, imposed in 2016 which kept Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court after president obama nominated him in february of that year to fill the vacancy that arose with the death of justice antonin scalia. That rule was clear. That rule was concise. That rule was definitive. The senate would not consider a nomination to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court during a president ial election year. Many of my republican colleagues echoed leader mcconnells pledge. In fact, my colleague, senator Lindsey Graham, who chairs the judiciary committee, admonished us to
Over the counting of mailin ballots continues. The Supreme Court is allowing pennsylvania and North Carolina for now to count ballots received after election day, but the high court could still hear the pennsylvania case after the election and it could decide who wins the presidey. Nc we will speak to mother jones ari berman. Then we look at big techs role in the election as Senate Republicans accuse social Media Companies of favoring democrats. But is that true . If anything,e see ma sorts of thnology platforms throughout the past four years supporting the trump agenda and a conservative agenda. Millions plunged into pandemic poverty, the senate has adjourned before passing another stimulus bill. We will look at the spike in hunger across United States. These families are basically living like on a ticking time bomb when this starts up again, how theyre going to pay their rent. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im am
Over the counting of mailin ballots continues. The Supreme Court is allowing pennsylvania and North Carolina for now to count ballots received after election day, but the high court could still hear the pennsylvania case after the election and it could decide who wins the presidey. Nc we will speak to mother jones ari berman. Then we look at big techs role in the election as Senate Republicans accuse social Media Companies of favoring democrats. But is that true . If anything,e see many sorts of Technology Platforms throughout the past four years supporting the trump agenda and a conservative agenda. Millions plunged into pandemic poverty, the senate has adjourned before passing another stimulus bill. We will look at the spike in hunger across United States. These families are basically living like on a ticking time bomb when this starts up again, how theyre going to pay their rent. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. I
Over the counting of mailin ballots continues. The Supreme Court is allowing pennsylvania and North Carolina for now to count ballots received after election day, but the high court could still hear the pennsylvania case after the election and it could decide who wins the presidey. Nc we will speak to mother jones ari berman. Then we look at big techs role in the election as Senate Republicans accuse social Media Companies of favoring democrats. But is that true . If anything,e see many sorts of Technology Platforms throughout the past four years supporting the trump agenda and a conservative agenda. Millions plunged into pandemic poverty, the senate has adjourned before passing another stimulus bill. We will look at the spike in hunger across United States. These families are basically living like on a ticking time bomb when this starts up again, how theyre going to pay their rent. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. I