In his new book christian says if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems what happens when ai itself becomes a problem . Computer science and poetry tackling the ethical and technological. His work has caught the attention of people like elon musk who said his book the human human was his night table reading. It questions whether its a replication of an epitope vias and how can we get a handle on technology before you lose control . He argues although with trained these decisions force eventually humans will need humans. Well be discussing a lot in the next hour and i want to ask your questions but if youre watching live with us please put your questions in the text chat on youtube so i can into end of the conversation today at the thank you brian welcome in thank you for joining us. Its why pleasure. Thank you for having me. This is not your first book of course could i want to ask the opening question and its not the type of question you ask an author bu
Brought to you by your television provider. Welcome to todays virtual program, from the Commonwealth Club of california. Im the clubs Vice President of media and your moderator for today. Wed like to thank our members, donors and supporters were making this and all of our programs possible. Were of course grateful and we welcome others joining us during these uncertain times. Today im pleased to be joined by brian christian, programmer and author of the new book the alignment problem, Machine Learning. Which was released last week. He discusses theoretical contributions documented in his bestselling book the most human humans and an outer of them to live by. Christians posing questions of if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself is the problem. Hes a professor of philosophy and poetry, tackling the ethical and technological implications of a advanced society becomes more relianton technology. His work intersects elon musk in h
Anthony zurcher in washington will explain. And well be getting more on the impact of brexit on the uk economy. Thats all coming up on outside source. Yesterday, the uk delivered new proposals for a brexit deal. Today were getting the eus reaction. First up, European Council president , donald tusk. The core obstacle to a brexit deal is this how can the uk leave the eus Single Market and Customs Union and avoid there being any checks on or close to the border between the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland . The current agreement that the Uk Parliament rejected repeatedly, includes the irish border backstop. It says that after brexit, the uk remains aligned to the eus Customs Union until a new trade deal is signed. But borisjohnson and many brexiteers want that gone these new plans are their alternative. The Brexit Steering Group at the European Parliament says. Heres its chair, guy verhofstadt. Well, we are very sceptical about this proposal. Because mainly, it is a repackaging o
Decline. Biggest drop since 2009. A real freeze that has hit the manufacturing economy. Thats right. The lowest ism reading this is a kind of this 340 versus last month survey sometimes market moves are inscrutable. Yesterday, markets were up clearly just challenged this idea that the u. S. Economy was resilient enough we are constandly talking about increasing recession fears. Suddenly this data point comes along. The consumer, in 2019, are we dependent on manufacturing to the extent we used to be no. Not even close it is a great swing factor it doesnt go down that much but it also accelerates that much. You take a look at treasury yields yesterday as soon as this number hit 0 years at 2. 089 . We were above 1. 7 on the 10year yesterday. That shows you the market is saying, okay, the fed is likely to give another cut in october not a sure thing probability right now. The october adp report will be released at 8 15 eastern. Reportedly added 120,000 private sector jobs last month johnso
Echols recalls his arrest, incarceration and eventual release for the murder of three 8yearold boys in 1993. Mr. Echols and two other men, jesse and Jason Baldwin dubbed the west memphis three, spent 17 years in prison. Mr. Echols discusses the case and his time spent on death row at town hall seattle. Its about an hour, ten. [applause] um, thank you guys for coming out tonight. Damien, thank you very much for coming all the way to seattle. Thank you for having me. Um, you have been through something that i think not that many people have been through, a sort of grind that feels like it might never end and sort of you wonder if one day will just run into the next. And i speak, of course, of the media tour youve been on for this book. [laughter] life after death. What is more mundane, prison or doing a book tour . [laughter] in some ways the book tours actually a little more stressful. [laughter] at least when youre in prison, youre not being stared at by 400 people. [laughter] um, can