Bonus: The Engineers - Intelligent Machines

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This is a bonus episode for The Documentary of The Engineers: Intelligent Machines. This year, we speak to a panel of three engineers at the forefront of the 'Machine Learning: AI' revolution with an enthusiastic live audience.

Intelligent machines are remaking our world. The speed of their improvement is accelerating fast and every day there are more things they can do better than us. There are risks, but the opportunities for human society are enormous.

‘Machine Learning: AI’ is the technological revolution of our era. Three engineers at the forefront of that revolution come to London to join Caroline Steel and a public audience at the Great Hall of Imperial College:

Regina Barzilay from MIT created a major breakthrough in detecting early stage breast cancer. She also led the team that used machine learning to discover Halicin, the first new antibiotic in 30 years.

David Silver is Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. He led the AlphaGo team that built the AI to defeat the world’s best human player of Go.

Paolo Pirjanian founded Embodied, and is a pioneer in developing emotionally intelligent robots to aid child development.

Producer: Charlie Taylor (Image: 3D hologram AI brain displayed by digital circuit and semiconductor. Credit: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, this is the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Caroline Steele
0:05.7	and welcome to this bonus episode of the Engineer's intelligent machines.
0:10.4	This year we went to the Science Specialist University Imperial College London
0:15.2	to focus on the technical revolution defining our era, artificial intelligence.
0:21.2	To help me I was joined by a panel of three world leaders in the field and a large enthusiastic audience
0:28.1	in Imperial's Great Hall.
0:29.2	Thank you very much.
0:35.0	intelligent machines are remaking our world.
0:38.0	Intelligent machines are remaking our world.
0:41.0	The speed of their improvement is accelerating fast and every day
0:44.9	there are more things that they can do better than us. Already a computer can
0:50.1	defeat the world's greatest player at our most complex strategy game.
0:54.6	The first movie written entirely by AI has just been released and AI may have discovered
1:00.2	our first antibiotic in three decades.
1:03.0	Together with our partners Royal Commission 1851,
1:07.0	we've brought together three engineers at the cutting edge of this field
1:10.0	to discuss their work and what it means for us humans.
1:14.0	Paolo Pyjonian is Armenian, but he was born in Iran
1:18.0	and started his career working on Mars Rovers for NASA.
1:21.0	He's now founder and CEO of Embodied, which is a company that builds emotionally
1:25.5	intelligent robots to help with child development.
1:29.4	David Silver is from the UK where he's principal research scientist at the AI research lab
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