but the artificial intelligence revolution is changing that. you have warned me not to get too close. it does look a little bit hazardous. this robot dog hasn t been programmed to walk. it s learning by itself. it s called reinforcement learning. what we ve done here is, we ve given it this task to try to kind of stand up and move forward. when it does well, one of the computer scientists gives it the digital equivalent of a pat on the head. i can see it s doing better and better. it s strong. i try and put that in its way, and it s stronger than i am. yeah. have you trained it to make a beeline for me? uh-huh. i feel like i m battling the ai here, and the al s winning. in just a few hours, it s moving around by itself, even coping with the unexpected.
how do we understand ideas? how do we think? sounds great. but what happens if it ends up in the wrong hands? some people are scared, or think that the thought police is coming. ithink. you know, i think it s a fair reaction to this to say, like, this is scary. i don t want this to happen. that was kind of our reaction, too. like, the first thing that we thought when we got this working was like, this is fantastic. it s working! and then, like, oh, my god. this is working. are the thought police coming? uh, not yet. none of the current technologies that we have would be effective at actually, like, policing people s thoughts. the mind reading al was trained using early versions of openai s technology but openai is not as open as it was before microsoft invested. independent researchers no longer have transparent access to its latest tech and the data that trained it. there s less transparency than there was, and a lot of people aren t able to use chatgpt to do
picked up on is the increasing use of al to make really important decisions about people at work. decisions like who gets a job. decisions about how people do their work, who they do it with, where they do it, how quickly they have to do it. and then also, even decisions as significant as whether or not they lose or keep theirjob. in 2018, taxi driver alexandru joined uber. like most uber drivers, he s never actually met his boss. it s a job where we work alone. the only source of information would be your own experience and maybe chatting with other drivers. everything is done through his uber app. then, in the summer of 2021, alexandru got an email. it accused him of fraud. you are guilty or not guilty, there is no grey area in this.
experts to research al s safety and help the uk become a global ai superpower. ai can bring huge benefits for our economy, society and public services. but, of course, it needs to be developed safely, securely and fairly. there are no plans for new laws to control ai at the moment, but the government s published a white paper saying existing regulators will be responsible for policing it. intelligence is kind of the most desirable commodity that we are lacking. so, this will make people more productive, more creative. - and my view is that this may bring. a new kind of renaissance, a new era of enlightenment for humanity. but it has to be done right.
and wellness standards for data annotators. machines sifting through and analysing vast quantities of data is powering the accelerating pace of ai development. it s already led to computers acquiring their first real human skill language. we are at a criticaljuncture, in the sense that we now have machines that understand language, can manipulate language, and even pass for humans for a while with most people. and that was a milestone for al. having mastered language, al s now beginning to master other human skills, like reading emotions.