Artificial Intelligence

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Artificial Intelligence

Brian Cox and Robin Ince return for a new series of their award winning science/comedy show. Tonight the infinite monkey's are joined on stage by comedian Jo Brand, neuroscientist Anil Seth, and robotics expert Alan Winfield to discuss Artificial Intelligence. How close are we to creating a truly intelligent machine, how do we define intelligence anyway, and what are the moral and ethical issues that the development of intelligent machines might bring?

Producer: Alexandra Feachem.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robin Ents.
0:01.4	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:02.4	And welcome to the podcast version of The Infant Monkey Cage,
0:05.3	which contains extra material that wasn't considered good enough
0:08.2	for the radio. Enjoy it.
0:10.1	Hello, I'm Robin Ents. And I'm Brian Cox.
0:12.0	Now, one of the questions I am most commonly asked is,
0:15.2	is Professor Brian Cox actually a replicant?
0:20.2	I've seen things you wouldn't believe.
0:22.9	Chemists on fire in a Ford Orion.
0:26.9	Proton beams colliding in the dark
0:29.0	under the shores of Lake Geneva.
0:30.8	All those moments will be lost.
0:33.4	Well, actually, it won't be.
0:34.4	It'll probably be on eye play and relentless speeds on BBC 4.
0:37.0	But time to die. Your hair.
0:40.7	Because it has gone great.
0:41.8	And no one believes that you'd be...
0:43.4	People actually think you'd die your hair gray
0:45.6	to make yourself appear more human.
0:47.6	Yeah.
0:49.6	Authority.
	...

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