Machine Learning
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Machines are about to get a lot smarter and machine learning will transform our lives. So says a report by the Royal Society in the UK, a fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists. Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence that's already being used to tag people in photos, to interpret voice commands and to help internet retailers to make recommendations.
Manuela Saragosa hears about a new technology that is set to revolutionise computing, developed by a UK company called Graphcore. Manuela talks to Graphcore's chief executive Nigel Toon, who is taking on the AI giants.
And Manuela hears how we are 'bleeding data' all the time. Dr Joanna Bryson from the University of Bath and professor Amanda Chessell, an IBM distinguished engineer and master inventor, explain how our data is being used.
Producer: Laurence Knight
(Photo: A robot pours popcorn from a cooking pot into a bowl at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI), University of Bremen, Germany. March 2017. Credit: Ingo Wagner/AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuela Saragossa. |
| 0:09.9 | Coming up, machines are about to get a lot smarter. |
| 0:13.5 | We'll hear about a new technology that's set to revolutionise computing. |
| 0:17.3 | A machine can have a complete understanding of all the diseases and all the symptoms, |
| 0:22.7 | who learn from everywhere and continue to learn and keep up to date better than perhaps a human |
| 0:27.5 | can driving a car. It will never take its eyes off the road. It will never be distracted. |
| 0:33.5 | It's called machine learning, but can we trust artificial intelligence to take decisions for us? |
| 0:40.0 | Technology is just as we build it. |
| 0:42.5 | So we always have that choice. |
| 0:44.8 | Part of the education process is around the engineers and the people who design these systems |
| 0:50.0 | to think a little bit more about the consequences of their use of technology. |
| 0:53.9 | That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:58.8 | Machine learning will transform our lives. |
| 1:01.9 | So says a report released today by the Royal Society, the UK National Academy of Science. |
| 1:07.0 | But don't feel bad if you've never heard of machine learning. |
| 1:10.2 | The Royal Society found that only 9% of those it polled were familiar with the term. Yet most of us are already in contact with it, because machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence that's already being used to tag people in photos, to interpret voice commands, by internet retailers to make recommendations, and by banks to spot |
| 1:29.4 | unusual activity on credit or debit card transactions. Soon, machines will also be able to help |
| 1:35.4 | diagnose illnesses, making doctors better at their job. Ali Parza, who is CEO of Babylon, |
| 1:41.3 | a digital healthcare company, explains how. |
| 1:48.5 | What we're giving the machine is a significant amount of data and knowledge, |
| 1:54.6 | and then its ability to interact with you so it can teach itself from the knowledge that it has already been given, as if it went to university, |
| 1:57.6 | and learn from every interaction from you how to become, how to diagnose you, how to |
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