It is now more than a decade since you wrote sapiens. It was a worldwide hit, and in essence, it was a very sort of positive explanation of how we humans have come to sort of dominate this planet. It was about our ability to cooperate, to tell shared stories, to give ourselves common purpose. I just wonder whether in the last decade, youve lost some of that optimism. I think our shared stories and our ability to cooperate, both as a species, but also on the national level, is collapsing in more and more places. I see it now in my home country of israel, which is really on the verge maybe of a constitutional crisis or even a civil war. Maybe what we need to understand specifically about democracies is that democracy, in essence, is a conversation. You know, dictatorship, there is one person dictates everything. Democracy is trying to reach some agreement through conversation, and conversation is not always possible. For most of history, large scale conversation was just technically impo
It was a worldwide hit, and in essence, it was a very sort of positive explanation of how we humans have come to sort of dominate this planet. It was about our ability to cooperate, to tell shared stories, to give ourselves common purpose. Ijust wonder whether in the last decade, youve lost some of that optimism. I think our shared stories and our ability to cooperate, both as a species, but also on the national level, is collapsing in more and more places. I see it now in my home country of israel, which is really on the verge maybe of a constitutional crisis or even a civil war. Maybe what we need to understand specifically about democracies is that democracy, in essence, is a conversation. You know, dictatorship, there is one person dictates everything. Democracy is trying to reach some agreement through conversation, and conversation is not always possible. For most of history, large scale conversation was just technically impossible. You had small scale democracies, like in city s
historic presidential debate, the ground has shifted the rematch between president joe biden and former president donald trump. are correspondence or follo following the high anxiety within the biden camp right now in the celebrations within the trump team. first, let s get our lead science. she s reporting on the president s rocky performance and his attempts to rebound knocked down, you get back out. president joe biden in north carolina, attempting a major reset after his debate against former president donald trump. one democratic lawmakers telling cnn, biden s performance was a disaster. i know i m not a young man i don t. tibet debate as well as i used well, i know what i do know i know how to tell the truth on the campaign trail, the president fiery and his attacks against his rival donald trump was charged democracy, i will defend it a stark contrast from biden s showing at cnn s presidential until debate, which has sent biden s advisers scrambling behind the scen
the same again? what we were seeing was the emergence of something called generative ai, and although this was only a tiny part of artificial intelligence as a whole, it got us all talking about the possibilities and the risks. to the evening, when we re watching our favourite streaming service and it s recommending what to watch. but suddenly, people were interested and fear seemed to transcend excitement. and next week, world leaders are going to be meeting at bletchley park, the world famous computing site, for the ai summit, to discuss all of the issues that al has kicked up. so, we thought we d give you a reminder of some of those issues, plus some of the benefits of letting computers learn from billions trillions of pieces of data. we start with ben derico in chicago, and then marc cieslak s in scotland. ai art has taken a massive leap recently. i mean, this one sold for over $400,000 at an auction at christie s in 2018. with image generators like dall e and stable di
in a dramatic final. morning, all. heavy overnight rain continues to push its way steadily north and east. it will linger for much of the day across southern and eastern scotland accompanied by gail with gusts of winds. elsewhere it is a blustery sunday afternoon, sunny spells and scattered showers, but some of those will be heavy in bunbury. all of those details coming up bunbury. all of those details coming up shortly. heavy and thundery. it s sunday october 29. our main story: the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has warned that the war with hamas will be long and difficult after his ground troops entered gaza, supported by heavy air strikes. israel has told residents of gaza city to leave what it calls the battlefield , claiming more humanitarian aid will be available further south. israel says it is targeting hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the uk government, following the attacks of october 7 that killed 1,400 people and saw mo