A herdsman there has been infected with the quote bubonic plague yes that bubonic plague the one that you read about in history books that was referred to as the black death the one that killed more people than any other pandemic in the entire history of the world that herdsman he was hurting his animals and apparently he was infected by a bacteria that they were carrying or the fleas that surround them were now if youre thinking well that sounds like a remote case an outlier if you will and then theres another mongolia now lets go there which is right next door 15 Year Old Girl has also been infected with the black plague how she apparently came in contact with a marmotte kind of like a big rodent that was hunted by her dog. And heres Something Else according to the c. D. C. Isco surprise you every year in the United States 7 people are infected with the black plague who knew right so why does this matter you know why it matters it matters because it shows that plagues or pandemics ar
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But these machines and in some sense, do. They have an explicit internal model welcome to hardtalk, of what their objective im stephen sackur. What is the most serious existential is and they can figure out how to achieve it. Threat facing humanity . So there might have the goal of winning a game of chess well, many of us might point and they can figure out how to do that and beat humans at it. To nuclear war or climate change. Learning what about that word, learning where does that fit . So these days, following actually but some of the greatest minds a recommendation by alan turing in the tech sector are looking in 1950, we built many of the ai in a very different direction. Artificial intelligence, system, not by programming them warned the physicist explicitly, but by training them. Stephen hawking, could spell the end of the human race. So we have general purpose learning algorithms that take examples my guest tonight is stuart russell, from the real world and then a globally reno
Ill ill be back at one oclock. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur, what is the most serious existential threat facing humanity . Well, many of us mightve point to nuclear ball of climate change. But some of the greatest minds in the tech sector are looking in a very different direction. Artificial intelligence won the Physicist Stephen Hawking could spell the end of the human race. I guess to stuart russell, a globally renowned my Computer Scientist and advisor to the uk government and you and for top right now ai is being developed asa top right now ai is being developed as a tool to enhance human capability. Is it fanciful to imagine the machines taking over . Stuart russell, think welcome to hardtalk. You have spent a career at the forefront of ideas on Artificial Intelligence. Can you give me a working definition . Very stra ig htforwa rdly working definition . Very straightforwardly it means making machines intelligent. And what that means is tra
A staggering new figure from the uns Refugee Agency the number of displaced people worldwide has reached a record high of more than 70000000 we asked the beat us high commissioner for refugees whats behind the increase and what the International Community can do to reverse this trend. On my heart thank you so much for your Company Everyone dutch prosecutors have named 4 suspects in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight m h 75 years ago the International Team heading the investigation announced that one ukrainian and 3 russian men will face murder charges for their alleged involvement and shooting down the plane in july 2014 flight m h 17 was hit by a russian made missile while flying over ukraine all 298 people on board were killed most were from the netherlands. 5 years of inquiry have let the International Joint Investigation Team to these 4 men igor gerken soju bensky or like pull out tough and lonely child janko investigators believe theyre responsible for the death of 298 people