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
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Up to deliver vaccines to remote areas. We start on wall street where the Stock Market Rally continues with the s p 500 and nasdaq closing at new record highs. Americas Top Companies are reporting better than expected results. The senate is inching towards passing President Biden s 1. 9 trillion stimulus package. And theres been another fall in the number of americans filing forjobless benefits a sign the Labour Market is stabilising. There are still huge problems facing the worlds biggest economy but investors believe the flow of cheap money from the Federal Reserve will keep on coming. The biggest problem isjust that we have 20 million americans who are still in some state of receiving Unemployment Insurance benefit so we still have a really long way to go on the labour front and that take quite a bit of time to resolve. But gdp and output may recover faster but it will take more time to employ that many americans. I think it means that for market, we now believe that for market, we
Help battle the pandemic. For bothhe death toll italy and france reaches the highest level since april. Setting a precedent. Joe biden confirms support for the good friday agreement in his first call with Boris Johnson. His transition presses on, despite President Trump contesting the election. Welcome to the show. 6 00 a. M. In london. Breaking news in amsterdam. Ceo remainsing, the cautious on the outlook as we go through those covid numbers. 270 million. We are looking at an outcome of a strategy review. We will get that on november 30. Good morning. Good to see mr. Biden committed to something that i grew up with, the good friday agreement. Annmarie certainly is. We are still waiting for President Donald Trump to accept those results, manus. A slew of legal issues going on in the United States. Breaking m row abv amro breaking. You are excited today about what is going on in china tech. Almost 260 billion of market value over two days in a frantic of a frantic selloff wiped out. Ma