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
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. It is cloud week on squawk alley. If you were betting against snowflake, wur oyoure out in t cold this morning. That stock up is 12 same for Cloud Security and authentication specialist okta were going to talk to the ceo to see if this thing may stabilize from here or go higher splunk, that is the sound of a cloud stock dropping 22 after missing Sales Guidance for the third quarterer in quarter in a row. All this happening as amazons cloud conference is in full swing. Salesforce announced the second Biggest Software acquisition ever and we started the week on squawk alley talking to ibm president Jim Whitehurst who came to big blue in what and is still thelargest Software Acquisition ever redhat driven by a hybrid cloud. Julia, investors are betting on further growth from already heady levels we can certainly see that in what is happening with snowflake this morning it is reapproaching the highs that so
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Past in casting their ballots and much bigger numbers than ever before. Im nicole flourish thanks for joining us french president and i know michael issues a call for unity after another deadly attack thats being treated as an act of islamist terror a knife monk killed 3 people at notre dame basilica in the Southern City of nice the suspect is a 21 year old tunisian man who entered france from italy its the 3rd attack in france in 2 months blamed on muslim extremists mike hall says the country will not give any ground to terrorists. A place of worship and the scene of tara candles laid outside the not true don church a nice tribute to the victims killed. Within its walls. What happened inside is now being pieced together by forensics teams frances top counterterrorism prosecutor said this had all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack and they have detained a suspect there are people who are more. When he was arrested he was carrying a document in the form of a paper from the italian red
A surge in patients with newly developed protocols. And how the u. S. Election could have policy consequences abroad abortion clinics in kenya say they fear more cuts in u. S. Funding could harm already vulnerable women. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today french president among your walmart says his country will stand firm against extremists this after more deaths from whats being called isnt the star a man armed with a knife killed 3 people inside the notre dame basilica and niece the suspect is a young tunisian man it is the 3rd deadly is almost attack in france in 2 months. A place of worship and the scene of terror candles laid outside the not church a nice attribute for the victims killed within its walls. What happened inside is now being pieced together by forensics teams frances top counterterrorism prosecutor said this had all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack and they have detained a suspect there are people who. When he was arrested he was carrying a document i