Rise of the Robots: 3. Where is my mind?
BBC Inside Science
BBC
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
From Skynet and the Terminator franchise, through Wargames and Ava in Ex Machina, artificial intelligences pervade our cinematic experiences. But AIs are already in the real world, answering our questions on our phones and making diagnoses about our health. Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for AI, when fiction becomes reality, and we create thinking machines.
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| 0:36.0 | Hello You, this is the final part of Rise of the Robots, not the usual inside science, but we think you might like it anyway. |
| 0:42.0 | In this episode we get stuck into artificial |
| 0:45.5 | intelligence and consciousness and easy things like that. It's called Where Is My Mind? |
| 0:51.7 | Which is a quote from? Life. Don't talk to me about life. |
| 1:04.0 | Hey, pepper. |
| 1:06.0 | Human? |
| 1:07.0 | Human? |
| 1:08.0 | Human? |
| 1:09.0 | Did you just ask me if I was a human? |
| 1:11.0 | Are you a robot? Yes, I'm a human. Are you a robot? Yes, I'm a humanoid robot. Pepper? Human? Are you human? Of |
| 1:21.1 | course not, but that shouldn't keep us from chatting. |
| 1:24.0 | Would you step out for a few moments, Rachel? |
| 1:27.0 | She's a replicant, isn't she? |
| 1:31.0 | I'm impressed. |
| 1:32.0 | How many questions does it usually take to Spah? |
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