Now on bbc news. Click is at the Hay Literary Festival in wales. We speak to the writer of the book, peter 2. 0, a memoir about Motor Neurone Disease and combining his humanity with al. This week, the giant coming to a city near you. A Giant Leap for disability, and willing rides on giant screens. Thrilling rides. Hay, it is one of my favourite fests. Weve been coming to the Hay Literary Festival for quite a few years now, each time meeting amazing people who have written on fascinating topics. Every so often someone has stolen the show and stopped our world spinning. Can you see it . No, sorry. The town of Hay On Wye has more Book Shops than you can throw a thriller at, and they are usually packed with festivalgoers. And, after an enforced year online in 2020, the organisers are taking tentative steps back into town. As are we. Welcome to click at hay, 2021. Ok, i said tentative steps. Anyway, today we are going to be talking about al, which of course is very big, artificial insemination. Next year, then, i promise but in the meantime, some of hay 21s events are being streamed from the cinema around the back of richard booth� s beautiful book shop. Later, we will bring you one of the most inspiring stories from the festival. First, i want to tell you a tall tale from the emerald isle, a very tall tale. Its one of the most famous stories ever written. It is actually called travels into several remote nations of the world, in four parts, by lemuel gulliver, first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships. But you probably know it better as gullivers travels. Well, well, what have we got here . 300 years after the book was written, im following in the footsteps of its author jonathan swift to the place that inspired him to write the novel in the first place. This is Belvedere House in county westmeath, bang in the centre of ireland. So, the story goes that jonathan swift was standing about here looking across the lake where there is actually a place called lilliput, and he thought, well, those people in the distance are really small, and the rest is history. I said, why isnt there a giant gulliver here in Belvedere House . Paddy dunning is a Music Manager and proprietor of several museums. He has rubbed shoulders with the likes of u2, Rem And Dame Shirley Bassey and now he wants to make some icons of his own. We designed a beautiful statue in wood, larch wood, and build a Viewing Tower from the hat, and inside would be a Heritage Centre and museum dedicated, not just to jonathan swift but to the writers of the county. So that was where it started. It didnt end there, though, did it . So we came up with what is the concept now, which is a statue that has a matrix skin, and now we havejust launched the giant project, which is the search for 21 sites, to build 21 giants around the world. People of the world, welcome to the giant. The giant will be an interactive Visitor Attraction Centre around a huge, human shaped Moving Structure with cafes, restaurants, shops and a museum to boot, literally at the boot. The project is currently being masterminded at paddys residential recording studio, grouse lodge, and its caught the attention of eric fraad, opera director, Music Producer Movie maker and all round creative, who wanted to make sure that the statue could represent absolutely anybody. One of the possibilities was that it is a gigantic statue, and it is androgynous and therefore, with the leds, not projected, but revealed upon it, it makes it much more spectacular and transformable rather than a static image. What kind of shape did you end up going for . Essentially it is an amalgamation of the facial shape ofa man, woman and child. The Human Eye, it cheats. The Human Eye fills in so much thats not there. If you give it a hint, it will fill in an awful lot and that is part of what is. Is it big enough, do you think . Bear in mind this is only a small scale concept model. It will be covered with millions and millions of pixels of addressable leds. That is all fed to controllers, and the more control you have over the leds, the greater spectral variations you can have with colour, with intensity. We managed to get this big, Massive Movement up to the sky, the winning pose, so thats a big, Massive Movement. These are 60 80 foot long, and set up with great tones. If the giant is on the ground on top of the museum, you would need an acre. Interestingly, somebody. In New York has been on, and they can do it on airspace, land that is really interesting. I what does that mean . Airspace means that they would put. It on top of an existing building. L because of covid a lot of the cities are looking at, how are they going to get tourism back . How are they going to get people back into their countries . What is the draw going to be . We do think that the technology that weve got will be the future of statues, and there wont be just an image of one person. We think that images will change as society changes. In fact, the image that paddy thinks will draw most attention is the image of you. Part of the Visitor Experience will involve getting your whole body scanned and then thrown up onto the statue for all to see. The worlds most awe inspiring selfie. You can look up and you will become the giant. You are calling this the worlds biggest selfie. It is the worlds biggest selfie there is nothing like it on the planet. Its so big, its going to be gigantic. Poor foolish little people. Look what youve done. With goliath ambitions, the giant company hopes to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and plans to roll out the first five by The End of this year. One thing is for sure. The scope of that task will be enormous. When i first heard about this project, i thought it was nuts. But then i got here and i saw the Scale Model of the head, and i started to understand how it could work, and the technology needed to bring this to life is proven. It is just coloured leds. So maybe the main question is whether people will want it, but we are living in the century of the selfie, so who knows . I have a feeling they will. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that huawei launched this self developed Operating System Harmony os in an attempt to challenge Googles Dominance in smartphone software. Bill gates and the eu announced a push for 1 Billion to accelerate clean tech and ebay updated its terms of Service Meaning that sellers can no longer use paypal. And a cyber attack hit the worlds largest meat supplier. Computer networks atjbs were hacked, temporarily shutting down some operations in australia, canada and the us. The Ransomware Attack could lead to shortages of Meat Or Raise prices for consumers. A drone has found itself crashing into the Lava Flow of a volcano. It happened in the South West of iceland were drone Pilot Gerry helms tried capturing the volcano which has been erupting since march. And finally a not at all creepy robot which copies you. Scientist at Columbia University in New York used deep learning to teach the robot, a there, to mimic the expressions are people around it, it can express anger, disgust, fear, joy, Sadness And Surprise and the aim of the technology is to build trust between humans and robotic workers and caregivers in real world applications such as hospitals, schools and homes. Of course, the machines are not softening us up before they become our robotic overlords the Hay Festival is steeped in tradition. It is a place where people come to exchange their screens for good old fashioned books. But, the pandemic has forced even the most conventional to adapt, and this appearance has proved no gimmick. I am a transitioning cyborg. This is Peter Scott Morgan who has Motor Neurone Disease, but hes also a doctor of robotics and he calls himself the worlds first human cyborg. Peter was diagnosed with als in 2015 and decided to use technology to overcome the extreme difficulty that he knew that he would face. He said that he chose to thrive rather than die. There have been two sides to his transformation, the physical and the virtual and in a minute, Stephen Fry will talk to one side about the other. First, nick has been looking at how peter 2. 0 has been realised. Today im in the scottish capital, edinburgh, a city with a rich history of storytelling, where Novel Ideas Come To Life And The Art Of Discourse has been mastered. Im here to meet engineers putting personality into synthetic hearts. Voice is part of what we are, part of our soul, the way we communicate, betrays where we are from, emotions, motives, everything. Doctor Matthew Aylett and his team have been banking Peters Voice so that he can continue to talk when it is gone. He had to have his vocal track removed, so before that happened we recorded him extensively and we were able to recreate his voice in a Speech Synthesis System so that he can now type in text and it will speak exactly the way that he spoke. Text to Speech Technology has been around for a while. All remember microsoft sam, right . Peter provided far more than the average Voice Sample recording. 15 Hours Worth of material. In order to make a voice you take the audio and you use a system to learn how the sounds in The Voice relate to the words that are being spoken. Once you have that model built you can put a new set of words in and it will produce a new output with that voice. To convey sentiment for specific scenarios, peter captured himself speaking in four different styles. The tone of voice is very important. The tone of voice is very important tone of voice is very. He also tirelessly recorded 3000 stock phrases, which he can quickly drop into conversation. A little knowledge may be a dangerous thing but it is not half as bad as a lot of ignorance. 0k. Doesnt want an automatic voice that talks for him, he wants an automatic voice that he can control. The whole idea of Human Sensitive Ai is to work as a Partnership And Peter has got a great phrase. He describes it as a jazz combo. It is the idea of two systems working together to produce something which is greater than the sum of their parts. And create they have, they have taught peter 2. 0 how to sing. And you will be in a world of your imagination this is brilliant. How did you manage that, then . Again, it is about communication, not just about the words you say. They have taken things even further by combining his synthetic voice with a virtual avatar, which is a work in progress. It is amazing what technology can do these days. So, where does the ai start, and Peter Stop . There is a path of least resistance. If the ai says stuff in a certain way it is easy to say letsjust do that, then, but then how do you get the Balance Right . The real key is for the alto be personalised for peter, rather thanjust being a default system. You are watching click at Hay Festival. That was nick, so what can peter 2. 0 do . That is what Stephen Fry asked at this years Hay Festival, and this was the answer. And if one day i start sounding like a Classic American Newscaster it is because i can, and it seemed like an interesting idea to try. And it is still the real me. Here are some highlights from Peters Session at the festival. Stephen, it is absolutely wonderful to be talking with you. Thanks so much for inviting me. It is going to be fun. I think it is, its going to be fun and fascinating. First things first, you have described yourself as a transitioning cyborg. How do you define a cyborg . Cyborg is a fancy word for part human, part machine. In my case, what has never been done before is that the most important Machine Parts of me will be ai, not mechanics, and that all potentially gets a bit weird. Not least because i am planning to use more and more ai, to look at everything from speaking to controlling things to moving about. I think that it is fair to say that we could describe yourjourney to becoming the worlds first ever cyborg, real cyborg, outside science fiction, begins with, how can i put it, a wonky foot. My very first symptom was as you so accurately categorised, a wonky foot, but it then took a year to get a diagnosis. There is no test for mnd, there is no nausea, no pain, and usually, your brain stays as sharp as ever, and the terminal bit turns out to be negotiable. With that said, it has been dubbed the worlds cruellest disease which inevitably sucks the joy out of life, but i found that the key to imagine total paralysis is to imagine that youre in a luxury spa hotel, and they insist that you put your feet up and dont move a muscle. At one point you write. About the fork in the road which we try to get at how humanity, | not just for you, but the Word Human involves alongside ai, and for you as a Living Embodiment of ai, this is something you feel passionately about. Way back in the early 80s, i was preparing my dissertation for what turned out to be the first Robotics Phd in the uk. Based on this and against the advice of both my professor and my publisher, i ended my first Robotics Textbook with these words if the path of enhanced human is followed, then it will be possible for mankind and robots to remain on the same evolutionary branch rather than humanity watch the Robot Split away. In this way, mankind will one day be able to replace its all to vulnerable bodies with more permanent mechanisms and use the supercomputer as intelligence amplifiers. That was 1984. Ever since, ive advocated for Making Ai our partner rather than rival. Can you make any predictions as to how our daily lives might actually play out, how they might look . L especially for those with disabilities or at extreme old age. We are at the early dawn of escaping the fear of becoming powerless and trapped in an inadequate body. Some people are pessimistic about al and humanity, but i have to say, from my perspective, from everything i know, i feel incredibly excited about our future. I understand that you have a world first that you have chosen to reveal here and now, to me, and to our audience. Hello, i am peter 2. 0. Welcome to the future. Now, if there is one thing i know about lj rich its that she loves her thrills. Here she is on a Vr Roller Coaster from a few years ago so when we found out that legoland had a new Flying Theatre Ride, well, there was one person we could send to find out how it works. Like many of us i often dreamt of flying as a child. I think that is why i love Thrill Rides and theme parks. Such the harness, forget your daily worries and simply escape into the sky for a few beautiful minutes. This is the newly opened flight of the Sky Lion at legoland, the worlds first Flying Theatre Ride and im lucky enough to be in before it opens to the public. The only person on one of seven Gondola Spread across three floors. The ultimate in social distancing. It is a wonderful, complex mix of creativity and technology. Behind the scenes, the Maintenance Team kindly put the ride into manual. When the ride starts the Gondola Rotates towards and into a 20 metre high screen. Here is a Close Up of the motorised mechanics in action, which are surprisingly quiet. There are three for each axis allowing for a 30 Degrees Swing and 23 degrees pitch, and degrees of left to right. And during the ride, fragrant mist is sprayed on Board Canisters so that we can smell Sea Air Baby Lava Dragon burps. It is clear how much the video, Lighting And Music add to the atmosphere. The sight, the sound, smell, the movement, to be as overwhelming as it is, and to know how the technology works, but even knowing how it works, it works on my body, physically, in a way that is quite astounding. Inside the control room, the Ride Operator monitors the gondolas precise movements, and theo is one of those responsible for working out how exactly it is moving and when. 0n the computer, first, we would understand where those peaks and drops are, and we would programme that in, and we would essentially go for a ride, and we would film that ride and also speak whilst we were riding it, and we had a Big Digital Meter on the ride, so that we could say, at two minutes ten, we need to bring this movement back, or we need to exaggerate that big drop, at three minutes ten, we are going to bring that forward. The Video Creators also need to have intimate knowledge of how the ride moves. One of the things that we start with is the ride envelope, three degrees forward and back, L Pitch and roll, stuff like that, i so all of those Mechanical Engineering things that are built into the way that we work with our camera, even though ithe ride envelope, you can trick| the brain into why, because even though the seat only i moves a little bit down, if we then continue the camera further down, then slow down the way that the Seat Moves down and speed i up the camera, you have the sensel that youre going much faster than you may actually be, or you may be going at a steeper | rate of descent than you actuallyj iare, so it is understanding the. Mechanical Engineering Side of it and then kind of how we actually trick the brain. Outside, the sculptures hold 1. 76 million lego bricks, they are hybrid lego animals that move when you access them through the app, and augmented reality contactless safari, and post covid the Parks Director is optimistic that most of us will eventually return. The last year has been challenging with the pandemic. Weve had measures in place such a social distancing, so we have had to reduce the number of people coming into The Park in the first place. We collaborate with competitors on something like this. It is important that we as an industry can get guests through the door again for the longer term recovery. Just time for one more view. That was lj rich having the time of her life. We have enjoyed being back in hay and hopefully next year we will be back for the full shebang, dont forget, you can get us on facebook, instagram and twitter, bbcclick, thank you for watching and we will see you soon. Hello there. It is looking pretty mixed this weekend. I think england and wales doing the best with the sunshine through today, tomorrow it is scotland and Northern Ireland. But vast improvement across the South East of England Today after yesterdays wash out, thanks to this area of low pressure which is clearing away eastwards. High pressure bringing the dry and weather, but were looking at this new weather now pushing into western part of the country. Its going to bring in clouds to Western Scotland, Northern Ireland and then into West Wales and the South West of england. There will be some showery bursts of rain, the Art Heavy Shower mixed in. Further east, though, it is a fine afternoon to come with plenty of sunshine and those temperatures reaching highs of 23 or 2a degrees in the South East, close to the high teens, low 20s elsewhere. So as we head through this evening and overnight, that Weather Front in the west slowly pushes its way eastwards. There will be a bit of a clearance behind it for Western Scotland and Northern Ireland, the skies were turn cloudier for the rest of scotland and into much of england and wales, some showery bursts of rain. Though the South East should stay dry with clear spells. There are those temperatures overnight. Ten to 13 degrees. It is actually quite mild. So, for sunday, then, it is a reverse fortunes. We now have the Weather Front lying across parts of england and wales, whereas scotland and Northern Ireland will be better with the sunshine. Some brightness getting into the far west of england and wales later in the day, but some of showers could turn out to be heavy across central and eastern parts of england into the afternoon. So, with more cloud around flowing in and wales and a little bit cool at 18 to 21 degrees, high Teens Celsius across scotland and Northern Ireland. Now, that Weather Front will be fizzling but lying across eastern parts of the country into monday. The new Weather Front trying to push into the far North West could bring a bit of cloud here, but much of the country should be dry with some spells of sunshine, variable amounts of cloud, and because we have that Weather Front holding on across the eastern side of the country, it is likely to generate a few showers into the afternoon. Some of these could turn out to be heavy and perhaps a thundery. Temperature wise, highs of 20 to 22 degrees, but feeling pleasant where you are in any sunshine further west. Now, as we run the Pressure Sequence through the week, you can see lower pressure always affecting the North West corner of the country, higher pressure towards the south and east. It does mean we will have the North West South East split throughout the week, the best of the Sunshine And Warmth will be across southern and eastern areas. Always a bit more cloud in the North West, with occasional showers and a stronger breeze. This is bbc news. 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