alexjones to pay $965 million to the families of the victims of the sandy hook massacre. and in china, where the country s ruling communist party gathers for its annual congress, we ll look at whose likely to become xijinping s second in command. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 11 in the evening in london, where the government is battling new economic uncertainty. prime minister liz truss has told mps her strategy of cutting tax will not change. but she s also said she won t cut spending either, suggesting the government will have to borrow more. that s raised concern even among her own mps. some want her to rethink tax cuts to reassure the markets. our political editor, chris mason, reports. reporter: have you wrecked the economy, prime minister? - there are plenty of questions for liz truss at the moment, but that one gets to the crux of things. spiralling prices, interest rates climbing, the market
and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we re going to do everything we can, as fast as we can, to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. i want to bring you some news that s just come through in the last hour from the us, where a usjury in connecticut has ruled that the conspiracy theorist alexjones must payjust shy of $1 billion in damages to the families of those killed in the 2012 sandy hook mass shooting. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attacked in 2012. a little earlier, our correspondent gary 0 donoghue told me why alexjones has been held accountable. really, from when it actually happened, alexjones, on his info wars channels, reachi
Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex games, and smart robots capable of assisting people that need care are just some among the successful examples of machine intelligence. This kind of progress might entice us to envision a society populated by autonomous robots capable of performing the same tasks humans do in the near future. This prospect seems limited only by the power and complexity of current computational devices, which is improving fast. However, there are several significant obstacles on this path. General intelligence involves situational reasoning, taking perspectives, choosing goals, and an ability to deal with ambiguous information. We observe that all of these characteristics are connected to the ability of identifying and exploiting new affordances-opportunities (or impediments) on the path of an agent to achieve its goals. A general example of an affordan
grown brain cells in a lab that have learned how to play a basic video game. they say that their so called mini brain can sense and respond to its environment. the team also claims to have created the first sentient lab grown brain. other experts describe the work as exciting but say that calling the brain cells sentient was going too far. here s our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. these little white blobs are clumps of brain cells that have been grown in a lab. researchers connected cells similar to these to a computer. under the microscope, you can see the tiny wires that sent electrical impulses in and out. it learnt to play a 1970s game called pong, in the rectangle on the screen. the lab grown brain moves a white line to try and stop the dot getting past. right now, we have the chance for drug discovering, disease modelling, understanding intelligence. the next stage could
game called pong, in the rectangle on the screen. the lab grown brain moves a white line to try and stop the dot getting past. right now, we have the chance for drug discovering, disease modelling, understanding intelligence. the next stage could open up options such as cybersecurity management, or more autonomous devices. finally, perhaps we could even lead to sentient and fully autonomous robots that can act and change in the real world. the researches grew a clump of 800,000 brain cells from a mixture of mouse neurons and human stem cells. the plan is to see if more of these mini brains become worse at playing the game after they ve been dosed with alcohol, just like a human player would. mini brains are also being grown in a uk lab in order to study brain development. it s taken researchers six weeks to grow these mini brains. you can see the electrical activity