Fiona, hello. Hi there, how are you . Im very well, thank you. And welcome back to newscast. Thank you. In previous episodes, we have had about 15 minutes. We have now got about a0 minutes, so. Good job the world is quite chaotic at the moment. There is plenty of Trouble Spots that we can look at. Before we go on a kind of tour around the world, ijust wanted to do a bit of your personal history. So what was happening in County Durham in the 80s when you were a teenager and he decided that russian was the thing that you wanted to get into . Well, that was the period that actually, it is the subject of a Netflix Series at the moment about the Cold War and the bomb where we had the War Scare with the Soviet Union. The 1980s, there were several but the most memorable, at least from my perspective was 1983, when you just could palpably feel the sort of tension internationally. Even as a kid, teenager, in school in County Durham, it is thanks to the bbc, which we were watching religiously e
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
We have a lot of work to do this hour, beginning with Vladimir Putin, who picked today of all days to abolish happiness in the world. Which was so unfortunate. Were going to get to that. And Big Joe Manchin breaking news, hes softening on the socalled Filibuster Rule. Hes embracing an idea that two of our guest have proposed. And he had a meeting with some democrats from texas who have come to washington to lobby him on the Voting Rights bills. Well have one of them join us. But heres what you missed. And this is big. Donald trump finally conceded tonight, he delivered the concession speech. He did. Yes. Not making this up. To sean hannity on that hour. Heres how it went. Its not the traditional form. First of all, sean hannity said to him, more than once, began questions with, if you were still president. And donald trump did not correct him. Donald trump went on okay. And said words. Im not going to say he answered the question, but he said words after the question mark. More than on
We have a lot of work to do this hour, beginning with Vladimir Putin, who picked today of all days to abolish happiness in the world. Which was so unfortunate. Were going to get to that. And Big Joe Manchin breaking news, hes softening on the socalled Filibuster Rule. Hes embracing an idea that two of our guest have proposed. And he had a meeting with some democrats from texas who have come to washington to lobby him on the Voting Rights bills. Well have one of them join us. But heres what you missed. And this is big. Donald trump finally conceded tonight, he delivered the concession speech. He did. Yes. Not making this up. To sean hannity on that hour. Heres how it went. Its not the traditional form. First of all, sean hannity said to him, more than once, began questions with, if you were still president. And donald trump did not correct him. Donald trump went on okay. And said words. Im not going to say he answered the question, but he said words after the question mark. More than on
We have a lot of work to do this hour, beginning with Vladimir Putin, who picked today of all days to abolish happiness in the world. Which was so unfortunate. Were going to get to that. And Big Joe Manchin breaking news, hes softening on the socalled Filibuster Rule. Hes embracing an idea that two of our guest have proposed. And he had a meeting with some democrats from texas who have come to washington to lobby him on the Voting Rights bills. Well have one of them join us. But heres what you missed. And this is big. Donald trump finally conceded tonight, he delivered the concession speech. He did. Yes. Not making this up. To sean hannity on that hour. Heres how it went. Its not the traditional form. First of all, sean hannity said to him, more than once, began questions with, if you were still president. And donald trump did not correct him. Donald trump went on okay. And said words. Im not going to say he answered the question, but he said words after the question mark. More than on