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
From china. This is on top of the most favoured nation tariff of 6. 1 already slapped onto chinese produced evs that are imported into canada. Now, the government also intends to apply a 25 tariff on imports of steel and aluminium products from china. Canadas finance minister, chrystia freeland, says these measures were about protecting domestic producers. The reality is china has an intentional state directed policy of overcapacity and oversupply, designed designed to cripple our own industries. Talk to the steel sector. Talk to the aluminium sector to understand how effective that has already been. We simply will not allow that to happen to our ev sector. The auto tariffs bring canada in line with its southern neighbour. The us introduced 100 tariffs on chinese made evs in may whilst the eu is also imposing higher tariffs. It comes after Us National Security advisorjake sullivan, whos en route to beijing, touted the need for a united front on tariffs when he met Withjustin Trudeau an
Well have his report. And the british Prime Minister has resumed his weekly audiences with the queen, 15 months after they were suspended. Where to begin . Hello, im katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. Britney spears is pop culture royalty. Shes on the Mount Rushmore of modern music. In fact, britney has been famous for longer than most current music stars have even been alive. And yet, for the past 13 years, shes had no control of her career or her health, or many other aspects of her daily life. Thats because shes been placed in a legal arrangment called a conservatorship. Thats when another party in this case, herfather, jamie takes control of a persons Decision Making on significant matters. This often comes up with those who have diminished mental or physical capacities. Today, in a California Court, ms spears s lawyers are set to argue that she does not fit that bill. So, lets cross to the bbc s david willis, whos outside the court. Lovely to see you, david. L
Well have his report. And the british Prime Minister has resumed his weekly audiences with the queen, 15 months after they were suspended. Where to begin . Hello, im katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. Britney spears is pop culture royalty. Shes on the Mount Rushmore of modern music. In fact, britney has been famous for longer than most current music stars have even been alive. And yet, for the past 13 years, shes had no control of her career or her health, or many other aspects of her daily life. Thats because shes been placed in a legal arrangment called a conservatorship. Thats when another party in this case, herfather, jamie takes control of a persons Decision Making on significant matters. This often comes up with those who have diminished mental or physical capacities. Today, in a California Court, ms spears s lawyers are set to argue that she does not fit that bill. So, lets cross to the bbc s david willis, whos outside the court. Lovely to see you, david. L
Well have his report. And the british Prime Minister has resumed his weekly audiences with the queen, 15 months after they were suspended. Where to begin . Hello, im katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. Britney spears is pop culture royalty. Shes on the Mount Rushmore of modern music. In fact, britney has been famous for longer than most current music stars have even been alive. And yet, for the past 13 years, shes had no control of her career or her health, or many other aspects of her daily life. Thats because shes been placed in a legal arrangment called a conservatorship. Thats when another party in this case, herfather, jamie takes control of a persons Decision Making on significant matters. This often comes up with those who have diminished mental or physical capacities. Today, in a California Court, ms spears s lawyers are set to argue that she does not fit that bill. So, lets cross to the bbc s david willis, whos outside the court. Lovely to see you, david. L