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
Headwinds for the consumer and continued layoffs and Economic Uncertainty and the lack of additional stimulus from congress so can this consumer remain resilient. Pete, throw anything at the consumer and it seems like he or she will continue to spend it does seem that way its amazing mel by the way, its good to see you. When you break it down its about a couple of Different Things and stimulus is out there and by the time they get into two or just after the elections i think well start toy so more stimulus if we dont see it sooner than that, that will help, but anybody thats got ecommerce exposure and they have it on the Positive Side like target, like walmart and home depot, lowes and so many others and they have the digital side and retail is doing very, very well. If they dont, then many of those are definitely struggling and i dont know how many of those will survive and you have to have the ecommerce arm if you want to compete in this environment. Curbside pickup doesnt cut it for
There are many reasons. And there are many alternatives to. Make up your own mind. Made for minds. A president saying hes better and markets on the rise. Moves from the hospital back to the white house marcus prefer to disregard that so far the us president hasnt been healed from closing 19 also coming up she earned her a name for herself by going after big tax europes top antitrust official tells us why her work isnt done and pare for some eggs from the web the chinese farmers are increasingly turning to online streaming to sell the products. Im Chris Culliver welcome to the program u. S. Stocks rose to their highest level in a month on monday with Investor Confidence growing over the possibility of a new fiscal stimulus to the markets also appeared to be called by news that u. S. President. Was leaving hospital following treatment for coverage 19 positive Economic Data from the Service Sector also helped asian trading on tuesday also bounced back. Lets get more from our markets corre
Eggs from the web chinese farmers are increasingly turning to online streaming to sell the product. And. The European Unions technology rules are stuck in the stone age thats the verdict of the woman behind the blocks latest effort to tame big tech you Competition Commission or mockery divest has long been a thorn in the side of the likes of apple and facebook now she says her proposals will lay down the law for those Companies Finally creating a Single Market for Digital Services. She said down with a reporter to no tomorrow. Thank you so much for joining us today commissioner its the pressure now digitalisation is of course a very important topic in europe and with your Digital Services act do you would like to see a range of rules imposed on Big Tech Companies like facebook and google and apple rules like making them share their data with smaller rivals what is it that you think that theyre doing that is so wrong. Well the last time when our democracies sort of say things you can do
Canceled the results altogether its unclear what happens next but having toppled its president twice before his ston is no stranger to political chaos. Following the story for us in moscow is bureau chief in your ear shadow europe why are these protests happening right now. Well sara these parliamentary elections took place 10 years after the country submitted to a partially parliamentary system of government and its not the 1st time that there has been a violent political overthrow this time 16 parties participated in parliamentary elections only 4 managed to get seats in the parliament the current president is known for his reserved political style but his popularity and the parity of his government has declined most recently due to the pandemic gets done the country has one of the highest death rates a kostabi cobbett 19 in the world and current teen has lost congress down a 5th of its budget the president was accused of inaction some even called for him to be impeached yury what do