of will be in the milder zone. some significant snow to begin with in the mountains in the north east. on saturday there will be some sunny spells and temperatures up to about 12. warm christmas eve, back to you, i2. warm christmas eve, back to you, sophie. thanks, matt. and that s bbc news at ten. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. are the machines about to take over? that basic fear seems to underpin much of the discussion about artificial intelligence, and parallel developments such as synthetic biology. the latest wave of tech advances offers us extraordinary new possibilities, but do we flawed human beings have the will and the means to contain and control them? well, my guest is mustafa suleyman, ceo of inflection ai and the author of a challenging book on al and us. is that a doomed relationship? mustafa suleyman, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for havin
mustafa suleyman, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you here. now, you, in your career, are wrestling with the complex relationship between us humans and increasingly intelligent machines. it seems, if i ve got it right, that you re not so much worried about the machines you re worried about us, our wisdom. is that right? it s a great way of putting it. i mean, i think the great challenge we have is one of governance. containment means that we should always be in control of the technologies that we create. and we need to make sure that they are accountable to us as a species, they work for us over many, many decades and centuries, and they always do way, way, way more good than harm. with every new type of technology we have, there are new risks risks that, at the time we experience them, feel really scary. they re new. we don t understand them. they could be completely novel in ways that could be very harmful. but that s no reason t
mustafa suleyman, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you here. now, you, in your career, are wrestling with the complex relationship between us humans and increasingly intelligent machines. it seems, if i ve got it right, that you re not so much worried about the machines you re worried about us, our wisdom. is that right? it s a great way of putting it. i mean, i think the great challenge we have is one of governance. containment means that we should always be in control of the technologies that we create. and we need to make sure that they are accountable to us as a species, they work for us over many, many decades and centuries, and they always do way, way, way more good than harm. with every new type of technology we have, there are new risks risks that, at the time we experience them, feel really scary. they re new. we don t understand them. they could be completely novel in ways that could be very harmful. but that s no reason t
oscar pistorius, the former paralympic sprinterjailed for murdering his girlfriend, has been denied an early release from a prison in south africa. the parole board said he hadn t completed his minimum detention period. at 10pm, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, click. plenty on the menu this week. yeah, paul s with the robots that help blind people to pack and stack. and ai helps jamie oliver cook up some spanish. spanish dubbing. meanwhile, would you let lara cook you dinner? oh, the stench! that is absolutely overwhelming! it s leftovers again. i think i ll go for takeout. it seems that the whole world has been talking about artificial intelligence recently. it s chatgpt this and ai art that. you can have conversations with it, you can be creative with it and the recent release of gpt ll seems to be displaying levels of understanding of questions and images that are astounding the experts. this is the uk s national centre for
urged council members to thwart any russian attempts to abuse the position. the presidency is largely ceremonial, although it oversees the agenda. now on bbc news, it s click. plenty on the menu this week! yeah, paul s with the robots that help blind people to pack and stack. and ai helps jamie oliver cook up some spanish. spanish dubbing. meanwhile, would you let lara cook you dinner? oh, the stench! that is absolutely overwhelming! it s leftovers again. i think i ll go for take out. it seems that the whole world has been talking about artificial intelligence recently. it s chatgpt this and ai art that. you can have conversations with it, you can be creative with it, and the recent release of gpt ii seems to be displaying levels of understanding of questions and images that are astounding the experts. this is the uk s national centre for data science and artificial intelligence, the alan turing institute, named after the mathematician considered to be the father of compu