Im 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, dystopian. But on one thing, the futurists can agree what will matter most to the outcome isnt The Machines, its the humans. My guest, neil lawrence, is a professor of Machine Learning who says we face a choice. Either we use alas a tool or we will become a tool for al. So, which is more likely . Neil lawrence, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. Its a great pleasure to have you. Now, you are a computer scientist, but it seems to me, as youve journeyed deep into the potentiality of Artificial Intelligence, youve 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 weve seen with a lot of the art
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. Therell 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. Im 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, dystopia
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
A colombian commemorate the anniversary of large antigovernment demonstrations. U. S. President elect joe biden has once again chris sized the current president for did i guess victory. He branded donald trump of instruction to the transition during a worsening pandemic as totally irresponsible and debilitating the incoming need. It made the comments after meeting with state governors from both parties to discuss how to tackle the crime of virus pandemic once hes in power. Biden was asked what trumps actions displayed to the american people, and then through an incredible irresponsibility credibly damaging messages being sent to the rest world about how democracy functions. I think it is. Well, i dont know his motives, but i just think its totally irresponsible. Elevations life for us at the white house, very strong words there, but is it frustration is anger . Is that both . Do we think theres certainly a different tone from joe biden, who, over the last week has been saying, look the
A tell all memoir. Further damage the president. And the Venice Film Festival gets underway but might not be quite what you expect our film critic at the scene to tell us behind the. Im glad to have you with us at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protest against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigners. Angry that authorities will hold elections to the citys Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay government protests have been held across hong kong since last june i. And. Joins us from hong kong now phebe hundreds of people. Today against the push phoning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Im not that i at least have to lloyd have to tell it to Disperse Protesters hours ago and now some skeptics system nowadays and. Its on the street not leaving them like in months is that they dont want to protest against a decision off th