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Today in Focus

Black Box: episode 1 – The connectionists

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi delves into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:02.0

Hey, it's Mike.

0:05.0

Today in focus is off this week,

0:11.0

so instead we're bringing you Black box a series we made earlier this year.

0:16.5

At some point in the last decade humanity began to collide with a new kind of intelligence

0:22.1

and things are getting strange.

0:24.8

People are being accused of crimes by algorithms, falling in love with digital beings,

0:30.3

turning to machines for comfort in their worst moments and using AI to commit and hide from terrible crimes.

0:38.0

I wanted to capture this moment we're all living through. Our first messy collision with AI. I think what

0:46.6

I've found will surprise you. Today in focus will be back as normal on September 2nd.

0:52.4

Talk to you then. back as normal on September 2nd.

0:52.6

Talk to you then. might be the most important innovation ever, with literally billions being invested.

1:04.9

The problem is that AI needs the right data and a lot of speed and processing power.

1:09.9

So how do you compete without costs spiraling out of control?

1:14.0

Time to upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.

1:17.2

Oracle Cloud infrastructure,

1:19.0

OCI is a single platform for your infrastructure, database and application development

1:24.4

with AI embedded across at all. If you want OCI to help you do more and spend less

1:29.6

like Uber, the Premier League, and Oracle Red Bull Racing,

1:33.3

take a free test drive at Oracle.com.com slash Optimize.

1:37.0

Oracle.com slash Optimize. The first time Jeffrey Hinton ran into a scientific problem in the world that he couldn't explain.

1:50.0

He was very young. So I remember when I was about five, coming home from school on a bus.

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