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sako. the more things change, the more things stay the same. an adage that seems tailor made for race relations in america. after eight years of a black president, amid a swirl of demographic and social change, black americans still feel the bite of discrimination and prejudice. how best to respond? my guest today is paul beatty, whose prize winning novel sellout is a devised satire to unpick the black american experience. it is funny and provocative but is it also fundamentally bleak? paul beatty, welcome to hardtalk. let me start with a broad question. it seems to be optimism has always been seen as the default mood setting of american history. are you an optimist? iam not! i am not a pessimist either. reading the book, the sellout which has caused a storm and won the booker prize, some would read it and think, gosh, this man has a very bleak world view. i don t think it is that bleak really, in a weird way. i think hopefully within the energy, there is a kind of some ....
the more things change, the more things stay the same. an adage that seems tailor made for race relations in america. after eight years of a black president, amid a swirl of demographic and social change, black americans still feel the bite of discrimination and prejudice. how best to respond? my guest today is paul beatty, whose prize winning novel sellout is a devised satire to unpick the black american experience. it is funny and provocative but is it also fundamentally bleak? paul beatty, welcome to hardtalk. let me start with a broad question. it seems to be optimism has always been seen as the default mood setting of american history. are you an optimist? iam not! i am not a pessimist either. reading the book, the sellout which has caused a storm and won the booker prize, some would read it and think, gosh, this man has a very bleak world view. i don t think it is that bleak really, in a weird way. i think hopefully within the energy, there is a kind of something ....
it should be trouble free, friction free and as seamless as possible. in respect of the american presidency, it is more important than ever before to speak directly to the president about the plight of 50,000 undocumented irish. i disagree with the policies introduced by the american government and we will speak to the president and vice president. mr flanagan is talking to speaker ryan tomorrow. we hope that out of that we will have an outcome in respect of continued good relations with the united states. finally i have asked for a review of the situation insofar as preclea ra nce the situation insofar as preclea rance so the situation insofar as preclearance so far as far as dublin and shannon are concerned. and with that, both leaders had out stage right to continue their day s work. just tell you a little more about what both of the irish and british leaders said about donald trump s new restrictions on immigration, restrictions on people coming in from seven cou ....
touch with me on twitter. now on bbc news it s time for click. this week, meet our youngest reporter ever. when were you born? couple of years ago. just a couple of years ago. we give a games legend something to play with. thank you. and drop and give me 20. 0k, just drop. for decades, scientists all around the world have been trying to create a machine that can match our intelligence. and nowadays artificially intelligent algorithms can perform many tasks much better than us. for a long time scientists have been the use in games like chess, drafts and go as a benchmark for testing ai. and that s because all these games have a certain amount of unpredictability built into them. namely, their human opponents. but this week the ai community has been celebrating a big win after a poker playing algorithm called liberatus defeated four top human players in a 20 day match of heads up no limit texas hold ‘em poker. i ve been using poker as a benchmark for 12 years. now the b ....
the world have been trying to create a machine that can match our intelligence. and nowadays artificially intelligent algorithms can perform many tasks much better than us. for a long time scientists have been the use in games like chess, drafts and go as a benchmark for testing ai. and that s because all these games have a certain amount of unpredictability built into them. namely, their human opponents. but this week the ai community has been celebrating a big win after a poker playing algorithm called liberatus defeated four top human players in a 20 day match of heads up no limit texas hold ‘em poker. i ve been using poker as a benchmark for 12 years. now the best ai has surpassed the level of the best humans in the strategic reasoning under imperfect information. but even at this big win is only a little step towards creating a general artificial. intelligence one capable of sophisticated thought across a wide spectrum of areas, and solving problems just as well ....