Otherwise, temperatures generally in the high teens to low 20s for scotland and northern ireland, and about 20 to 23 widely across england and wales. It then starts to get a bit warmer for scotland and northern ireland as we start to get a southerly drift, so temperatures more widely will reach the 20s as we go through the weekend. There ll still be a lot of dry and sunny weather for england and wales. Just an outside chance of a shower working in to the coast of southern england. Our temperatures, well, coming up to about 22 in glasgow, so feeling quite a bit warmer here. And a fine weekend, sunday looks good as well. Could see 25 across parts of eastern england, but then some showers around next week. Welcome to hardtalk. I m stephen sackur. Wherever you live, however you live, artificial intelligence, machine learning, is going to change your life in the next few years. Will it be for the better? well, there are tech visionaries with very different views some benign, others, dysto
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
Election. Well get the latest from Trump Campaign attorney jenna ellis. Joe biden set to unveil a plan for the economy. Will it include canceling debt, more lockdowns . What about the green agenda items . Well have a live report from wilmington coming right up. That and so much more on making money. Charles another strong session for the stock market, folks and the underlying force is really optimism. Wall street breathed a sigh of relief when the blue wave did materialize and the assumption that the gop holds the senate. The vaccine news allowed investors looked beyond the dark winter to a springtime of renewal that begins sort of in march well see normalcy built into the market right now. The notion was reinforced on moderna, they have a vaccines 95 more effective than pfizers. As a result of the burst of optimism, weve seen money pouring into equity funds by the way is a rare occurrence, particularly domestic funds. Individual investor bullishness surged and were greeted now with bi
Distributed, how will be it done. All of this at a time were hearing about four 45 minutes from now president elect biden and Kamala Harris will detail their own economic plan. What theyre calling their Building Back better plan. I dont know what that means but they have got a lot of union heads there as well as the chairman of gm, the chairman of microsoft, the head of target. Again, virtually, if not in person. So well be monitoring that. When that comes up about an hour 45 minutes from now. Meantime more on this excitement around moderna and what it poses to offer right here. Jackie deangelis own that. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. The vaccine news certainly fueling the markets today. 94. 5 efficacy. That is what moderna is saying. We had excitement from pfizer and biontech last week. The market is saying we would expected or less efficacy. This is a really important number. People are wondering what happens next. How do i actually get the virus, excuse me, the vacci
Stocks stumbled out of gate. This is blowoff of november to remember. Reversal that may have been sparked by record homebuilder sent meant. Some think the market is too optimistic and toppy. They say it has gone full bull. Is it time to buy or sell. Of course those ceos of facebook and twitter, they are more contrite this time around in latest capitol hill hearing. Republicans and Democratic Senators are both admonishing them for abuse of power. Well continue with a life report, get reaction from tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn. All that and so much more on making money. Charles a little bit after trap door as the market opens for trading today. The s p 500 now though, remember yesterday hit new alltime highs. So the selling really is natural considering that it has been 12 trading days in november where the s p is up almost 11 . The dow is up more than 13 . In fact there is sort of a growing feeling the market is ahead of itself. That is the conclusion which bank of america in its