The AI Revolution
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How will Artificial Intelligence shape our lives, and what should we do now to prepare for it?
AI is all around us in our everyday lives. It's used to make decisions about employment, loans, credit cards and even what we read and listen to. So what are the implications of this revolutionary technology?
David Aaronovitch hears from experts in the field including:
David Baker, contributing editor to Wired magazine
Cathy O'Neil, former data scientist
Pippa Malmgren, founder of H Robotics
Regina Barzilay, computer scientist at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David O'ronovich. |
| 0:03.3 | This week I'm exploring the world of artificial intelligence, asking how it will shape our lives |
| 0:09.3 | and what we should do now to prepare for its impact. |
| 0:20.1 | Today we launch an intelligent synthetic life form, a full-size serving man. |
| 0:28.5 | Our serving man has a small computer in his cranium. |
| 0:33.0 | The unveiling of an artificially intelligent robot in the story Super To Toys Last All Summer Long, by the science fiction writer Brian Aldis, who died this week. |
| 0:44.0 | Now, that future is here, and it's set to alter the way we live. |
| 0:48.7 | I can't think of an advance in human history that will have such an impact as artificial intelligence |
| 0:55.8 | since, for example, the invention of the printing press. |
| 0:59.1 | Some people are pretty worried about AI in the longer term. |
| 1:03.7 | I believe that the rise of powerful AI will be either the best thing or the worst ever to happen to humanity. |
| 1:11.6 | Eminent authorities such as the physicist Stephen Hawking and Tesla's Elon Musk |
| 1:17.6 | are concerned that highly intelligent machines will eventually come into conflict with human beings. |
| 1:23.6 | But eventually is still a way away, and AI is now all around us in our everyday lives. |
| 1:31.9 | Things are happening fast. |
| 1:34.1 | Step inside the briefing room to find out what AI actually is, how it will shape our world, |
| 1:39.6 | and how we should prepare for those changes now. |
| 1:48.7 | Thank you. and how we should prepare for those changes now. First of all, what actually is artificial intelligence? |
| 1:53.7 | I invited David Baker into the briefing room to explain. |
| 1:57.5 | He's a contributing editor at the Technology magazine Wired. |
| 2:06.0 | AI or artificial intelligence is our attempt to make computers think in the same way that we humans think. |
| 2:15.3 | We're used to computers processing numbers in a kind of rigid way. |
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