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
It pushes the companys valuation to 10 billion. We will hear from the ceo of aurora. With dizzying market rallies, ipos, couldnt we all use some calm . Of all talk to the coceo , valuation has doubled. U. S. Stocks climbing twoway record amid stimulus discussions. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york to break it all down. Walk us through the day. Abigail it turned out to be a bullish reversal at the end of the day. There were pretty steep declines for the major averages. Today, the vaccine was launched. Pfizers vaccine started distribution in the u. K. There were record highs by the afternoon, and nasdaq at another record high. Chewy. Com and gamestop. They put up a pretty strong quarter, they beat estimates. The sixth sales beat in a row. I am not sure what is weighing on them as of this moment. Active customers increased, including myself. The website allows you to order for your pets. The results certainly proved it. Gamestop put up a disappointing quarter, missing sales. The s
Dday was a pivotal Turning Point in world war ii. Dday was the beginning of the end and thats where we are today. Make no mistake, it was not the end. Months and months of hardfought battles occurred and it took diligence, courage, and strength to eventually achieve victory. Trace the North Korea Post has another word for it vday. Team fox coverage with analysis from dr. Marc siegel. John roberts at the white house. We begin with mike tobin live in portage, michigan. Good morning to you. What is happening at the pfizer plant today . You can see the trucks are back in place. After yesterdays historic days with the first boxes of vaccine leaving the docks the followup today is more boxes of vaccine when leaving the docks. Yesterday 189 boxes were shipped out of pfizer plant here in portage, michigan. That worked out to more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine are scheduled to be shipped out of here. Within hours of the first Shipment Leaving Up
Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
Require a near constant struggle to stay ahead of events and the real danger lies in getting complacent. Effective cybersecurity is an ongoing line of effort. The Threat Landscape is diverse, the best practices are changing, the information you get may not always be reliable. The task can seem overwhelming and the stakes are high. In this context, i have found myself thinking effective cybersecurity cannot move at, quote, the speed of government. By that i mean cybersecurity is a 21st century Public Policy program just not manageable by 20th century government means. Regulations, mandates and centralized action in general, these approaches are inadequate to match the pace of change. Congress needs to make sure that the governments role in detecting and responding to cyberattacks is clearly defined, that theyre focused first and foremost on the security of federal information networks. Today well hear from the department of Homeland Security and their cybersecurity work. How it is evolv