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AI: Looking to the future

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It’s been claimed artificial intelligence will be as revolutionary as mobile phones or the internet, but there are fears that developments in AI could come at the cost of jobs. We assess the pros and cons of this rapidly-evolving technology, with insight from Marc Raibert, Executive Director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute. We also consider the impact of generative AI on the arts, with Matt Bellamy from British rock band Muse teasing a potential future collaboration with a humanoid robot.

Presented and produced by Sam Clack. Image: Ameca robot at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, London. Credit: Sam Clack / BBC

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:14.9

It's the technology bill as being as revolutionary as the internet,

0:19.1

but there are fears that while artificial intelligence

0:21.5

could make our lives easier, it could come at the cost of many jobs around the world.

0:26.3

We've all kind of known that AI is coming for a lot of our jobs, but obviously when you combine

0:29.8

it with robotics, it's almost coming for a hell of a lot of jobs.

0:32.5

Developments in the AI space continue to dominate the headlines, and the amount of investment

0:37.1

being plowed into it

0:38.3

means that's unlikely to stop any time soon. But is AI an existential threat to humans or can it be

0:45.3

harnessed as a power for good? Right now we're on this crest of the wave of excitement. And I think

0:51.6

at the bottom of all this, if you can increase the productivity of the

0:55.1

world, the world will benefit. I'm Sam Clack, and on this edition of Business Daily, I'll be taking

0:59.9

you behind the headlines to hear from some of the leading figures in the field, as we consider

1:04.9

the pros and cons of a technology which could well shape our lives for many years to come.

1:10.9

More than 4,000 of the world's leading robotics and AI companies

1:15.1

and researchers are here at London's huge Excel Centre

1:18.3

for the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, or ICRA.

1:22.4

23 countries are represented here,

1:24.6

and there's a bewildering array of exhibits from humanoid robots to

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