and they are having an impact on people s hell. several hospitals here in palermo are seeing a rise in the number of patients that are being admitted because of health problems caused by the heat. 20 cities in italy are under a red alert warning, and that number is going to go up to 23 cities on wednesday. now, this heatwave could continue for the next ten days in some parts of the country, and that s why the authorities here are urging people to be extremely careful. just south, in mainland greece, the extreme climate has exacerbated wildfires. firefighting planes are battling flames as many towns across the country are being evacuated. the eu is sending more planes from france and italy to help. strong winds have been reported in the region, making it difficult for firefighters to extinguish the blaze. in one area, police arrested a man suspected of starting a fire. azadeh moshiri has more from the city of kouvaras. several fires have made their way through mainland greece.
summers, but not this hot, especially if you take into account the fact that these consecutive heatwaves have come very suddenly. and they are having an impact on people s hell. several hospitals here in palermo are seeing a rise in the number of patients that are being admitted because of health problems caused by the heat. 20 cities in italy are under a red alert warning, and that number is going to go up to 23 cities on wednesday. now, this heatwave could continue for the next ten days in some parts of the country, and that s why the authorities here are urging people to be extremely careful. just south, in mainland greece, the extreme climate has exacerbated wildfires. firefighting planes are battling flames, as many towns across the country are being evacuated. the eu is sending more planes from france and italy to help. strong winds have been reported in the region, making it difficult for firefighters to extinguish the blaze. in one area, police arrested a man suspecte
welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. artificial intelligence, or a.i., is an incredibly powerful technology which may change many aspects of our lives. the ceo of google s parent company, alphabet, which has invested heavily in it, recently said ai s impact could be more profound than electricity or even fire. but many worry about what that impact might turn out to be. could ai one day replace humans? and if so how might that happen? we ve already seen some service-based and manufacturing jobs turn to ai in a big way. but what about other industries? can ai replace journalists or news anchors? perhaps it already has. because what you just saw and heard a moment ago was not actually me. this is me, anderson cooper. and i am an ai-generated anderson cooper. that wasn t my real voice, and i never spoke the words you just heard. we asked a young student in california to create a fully end to end ai version of me. looks like me, sounds like me, and it didn t
appropriately, from the artificial intelligence summit at bletchley park. the other big story this week, though, has been the quite eye popping testimony at the public inquiry into how the government handled various phases of the covid epidemic. and, i mean, it has massively, massively taken me back to those scary, uncertain days in early spring 2020. and i spent a lot of those days sat in this very studio and the person sat across from me and being very reassuring at all times was laura k, who s back in the studio. not in the studio. no, i m not. but i m logistically distanced today, not socially distanced. and i m very pleased to hear that i was reassuring back in those early days of march 2020. you were one of the only people i saw! well, i m pleased. well, it was very nice. we were a tiny little band of people, carrying on, trying to do ourjobs as everybody wondered what on earth was going on. and it s been a very strange experience watching this, hasn t it? because i was
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