mr macron remains ahead in the polls. now on bbc news, hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. iran s rocky relations with the west have cost a host of individuals their freedom. the islamic republic has imprisoned citizens from the us, britain and a number of other countries for spying. now, the charges may be trumped up, but tehran s determination to use western prisoners for political purposes is very real. my guest is the australian academic, kylie moore gilbert, who was released from an iranianjail in 2020 after 804 days behind bars. is it possible to heal after such a shattering ordeal? kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels like it was a very leng
academic, kylie moore gilbert, who was released from an iranianjail in 2020 after 804 days behind bars. is it possible to heal after such a shattering ordeal? kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels like it was a very lengthy, especially vivid nightmare that ijust dreamt one night when i was asleep and have woken up the next day, and i still have those memories of that nightmare lingering with me. but because i m in the same familiarspaces, back at my home that i was in before i went to iran, sometimes i have to pinch myself and remind myself that i ve actually gone through that terrible ordeal and that experience in real life. you did say a little while ago, you said when you first re
he attended at downing street injune 2020 had breached the rules. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. iran s rocky relations with the west have cost a host of individuals their freedom. the islamic republic has imprisoned citizens from the us, britain and a number of other countries for spying. now, the charges may be trumped up, but tehran s determination to use western prisoners for political purposes is very real. my guest is the australian academic, kylie moore gilbert, who was released from an iranianjail in 2020 after 804 days behind bars. is it possible to heal after such a shattering ordeal? kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels l
to use western prisoners for political purposes is very real. my guest is the australian academic, kylie moore gilbert, who was released from an iranianjail in 2020 after 804 days behind bars. is it possible to heal after such a shattering ordeal? kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels like it was a very lengthy, especially vivid nightmare that ijust dreamt one night when i was asleep and have woken up the next day, and i still have those memories of that nightmare lingering with me. but because i m in the same familiarspaces, back at my home that i was in before i went to iran, sometimes i have to pinch myself and remind myself that i ve actually gone through that terrible ordeal and
entirely written by a human, so what s going on? today, we re dedicating the whole programme to these questions. with me are madhumita murgia, artificial intelligence editor at the financial times, sky news science and technology editor, tom clarke, eliz mizon, from independent media cooperative the bristol cable, as well as jackson ryan, science editor at cnet. welcome to you all. and i think we should start with the basics. madhu, if i could bring you in, from the financial times, explain what we mean by aland why, particularly in terms of the role ofjournalism it has, why it s getting so much coverage now. well, so, ai is artificial intelligence and, i mean, supposedly it s a mechanical computer version of human intelligence, or at least that s the hope, right? but today, what we have is, it s basically a powerful statistical system, a computer software, which finds patterns in large amounts of data. but what this means is that it can, you know, find diagnoses from pictur