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
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Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Katty im katty can washington and this is bbc world news america. Unpopular restrictions in several countries. Bbc investigation finds some arab states have been deporting muslims back to china. Amy Coney Barrett, President Trumps choice to be the next Supreme Court judge was grilled by senators today. She pushedk on democrats who see her as a conservative activist. And, a surprise to 00 a. M. Knock at the door. One you would not mind getting dragged out of bed to answer. Katty welcome to world news america on pbs. Many countries are imposing more extreme measures to fight the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Its a worrying trend in a region that hoped the worst was behind it. The Czech Republic has a new threeweek state of emergency and schools are shut down. The dutch Pr
Company ipo in a year, if approved by President Trump. Is this ride hailer. Eeking to shore up cash haidi lets look at how we are setting up for the final trading session of the week in asia. After a pretty lackluster session, we had u. S. Stocks passing some of those parsing some of those losses, still dropping for a second day but finding support after bouncing off the 50 Day Moving Average on the s p. S p futures seeing a little positivity on the u. S. Fridays session, about 0. 2 higher. Tax leading the client is apple, facebook and peppe microsoft are weighing on declines. We saw a Little Movement in treasuries as well. In asia, the nikkei 225 is seeing an upside, 0. 1 when it comes to futures trading in chicago at the moment. Dollar weakness yen strength will be an issue, the. We have the yen appreciated to the strongest level in six months across broad dollar weakness. The u. S. Dollar index falling for a fifth straight session. We are also keeping watch on the dollar and how it
We are looking ahead to the fed minutes out on wednesday. Lets change the board and look at the currencies and we will check in on some of the commodities. The u. S. Dollar index currently flat. You have the euro gaining just four basis points. A stronger euro over eight straight weeks. That is beneficial for emergingmarket currencies. The yen, 76. Rsus some gains for the aussie versus the safe haven yen. Gold had its first weekly drop since early june. Gold firmly in focus. Down 3 10 of 1 . 42 for wti. Over in the u. S. , 17 basis points on the 10 year. Lets get to the first word news. Good morning south korea is warning of a new mass Coronavirus Infection after reporting its highest number of cases since early march. The latest infections are being linked to a church in seoul. Tokyo confirmed new cases. Young adults in their 20s the largest group, almost 18,000 people are infected in the capital. New data show the japanese economy continuing to stumble amid falling Global Demand and