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
It was the sunshine for the trick monarch. This. Sequence. Starts to see. Is it really 5 minutes before 12 for a trade deal both sides say near days are left to secure an agreement but they remain far apart now the u. K. Has wrapped up a disagreement with ireland over trade could that help unlock a deal in brussels. And other crypto currencies are surging as investors seek safe haven from inflation but is that stable and what does it mean for crypto as a payment method. And does vaccinate. Its began against coburn 1000. 00 we need the German Companies keeping the doses safe at all to low temperatures. Blood welcome to the show m c beardsley in berlin. U. K. And the e. U. Have settled a dispute over how trading can take place on the island of ireland issue was the focus of british led it legislation that would have breached parts of the brics divorce deal signed last year following talks with the e. U. U. K. Will now remove the controversial clauses in its internal market bill the wider
Apple reports, by the way, apples plan for new faster chips behind that. And you see it there call it snowflake soar since its ceo raking it in every month jim cramer says hes worth every penny, carl. Thats a lot of pennies well talk about that, guys. We mentioned, jim, all the stuff thats coming at us in the coming weeks or the coming days, rather including some investing meetings, crm, adobe, disney and starbucks. A lot of companies that are doing incredibly well and we should also be thinking not just here but worldwide i think its kind of shocking to see that other than the banks in europe, almost everything is doing well all over the place, including these companies which are very international companies. But i think disney has a great story to tell when it comes to plus adobe has a great story to tell when it comes to all the things theyre doing and starbucks it looks like were getting comments saying, look, theyre doing better than we thought and thats also international. All th
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