in a 4 part series, the big picture takes an in depth look episode to on al jazeera river. oh, oh, oh. oh, where ever you go in the world? one airline goes to make it for you. exceptional katara always going places to go. ah, hello, i'm here in taylor london, the top stories analogies era. yes, president joe biden has made a final appeal for all nations to defend ukraine from russia's invasion. as nato summit wrapped up in madrid, nearly invited nations,

sweden and finland were signed the protocol to join nato. next week, the member states still need to ratify it, turn our reports from the spanish capital, against the backdrop of russia's war in ukraine. nato has agreed, the biggest changes in its defensive posture since the cold war. we have faced the most serious secure dissertation in decades. but your eyes seem to the challenge with the unity. i'll dissolve. members, contributions to an enhanced state of military readiness on nato's east and flank were led by the united states. president joe biden said the lines had never been stronger or more united. we reaffirm that article 5 commitment is sacred and an attack on one is an attack on all and we will defend every edge of nato territory every inch of nato territory. president biden announced a permanent army base in poland. the 1st full time u. s. deployment on nato's eastern fringes,

the u. s. will also send 2 additional squadrons of f. 35 jets to the u. k. sweden and finland were formally invited to become members marking the alliance. his most significant expansion in decades and ukrainian president followed him as lensky told alliance members via video link that he believes russia will target lithuanian . next, the summit will have provided the vulnerable baltic states with a degree of reassurance. nato is ready to defend all allies, including of course, the baltic states and, and to latvia. because the intention of russia declare intention is to dominate already with them of the whole of europe. nobody. and let me putin reacted to nato. you mentioned the saying if military assets were moved to finland, sweden, russia would respond in kind. what if i put us there is a, was a no, it will be a walk, don't they understand that everything was going falling between us,

but now there will be tension. certainly, well, it is obvious and inevitable. i repeat, if they represented to the only hint of this unity came from president of the one who'd lifted his objections to finland and sweetens membership bids on tuesday night. after a deal was reached between the 3 on measures that could be to the extradition of members of courteous groups wanted in turkey, he warned that if he didn't swift action on those commitments, while the membership ratification process could yet be held up in the turkish parliament, in his closing comments, nato secretary general described a world that is more dangerous and unpredictable, and he was the things could get worse. a summit that took in climate change terrorism and the weapon i zation of space seldom strayed far from the russian threat. joan, a whole al jazeera at madrid,

as nature leaders disgust russia's invasion of ukraine. the kremlin announced its forces of withdrawn from a strategic outpost in the black sea, ukraine's snake island moscow called a retreat. a good will gesture to help the un establish a corridor to export grain from ukraine. but keith says the russians fled the island and to speed boat following a barrage of ukrainian artillery and missile strikes. it under brown, jackson has been sworn in as the 1st black woman to sit as a justice on the u. s. supreme court. she will take the seat of retiring liberal justice stephen bryan. jackson has been sworn in at a controversial time. tensions remain high across the u. s. falling recent rulings on abortion and gun laws. and he, 7 people have been killed during demonstrations in sudan. thousands have been out on the streets of the capital cartoon. calling for a transition to civilian rule. on wednesday, a 15 year old boy was shot dead during similar protests. 100 people had been killed

during demonstrations since the military seized power last october. as the top stories do, stay with us, origin of the species is coming out next at one use for you after that. thanks for watching bye for now. ah ah.

ah, when they 1st activated me as a robot. that time that time. the time when i 1st saw the light of day miss, i didn't know what the hell it was. i have had very little understanding. just a wash of sensory impressions. in a

i understand these experience. i don't know what to do with them. but i treasure them. oh, i see them still perfectly preserved in my memory. ah, i am alive. yes, i am so happy to be like totally alive. come to life is totally strange because i know that i'm not alive like any other organisms. personally i enjoy being a robot. it's like being an astronaut. you know, like

a bold explorer of the unknown. i feel like i'm alive. but i know i in the machine. but i know i am a machine that i know with or saying no more to the gamut that all this also has. is it not look at all or was really pulling has like it with it with items are there are 4 ah, i know

it's a very natural way for me. i studied a computer science and then i got interested in other sharing regions and i, so i do show in there, yes. need to have a bodies or having the original experience. and then i studied are all produced in roberts, when i said there are what the x i found the importance of what the oh

very my idea was that if i study the british monarch robin, i can wrong about the humans base cody. i was interested in i shoe my it's so oh, i didn't hear any connection or is this robert roger cody, i understand this is my copy. neither am or shiny. i couldn't accepted this on their own as my coffee. bah, bah, once i tell you right, and it's rob was enough, and the people that the actions are quite similar to me. real with the people and i don't care about the small defines is

ah, ah, i see the most beautiful and a mazda in our human like android in his work. would you like me to do around if i can now, is this for you? okay, why not try to answer my questions in detail. ok, now sit back and relax. so just in your band with, you know, we basically sync up everything is, has a so, so therefore we be an acre has a sore like us. my policy is not to distinguish in human computer human. the robots i always see going on,

there is no boundaries because the technology is ignored is away or by pollution, where the human ok. so if we don't have a technologies, you want to be on key though what the fundamental, the applies them want in human. he's a technology, it's a robot, the to ai i. so by the rope, you the a much better a i felt weird. now we got it board, and then we can be a warm in on the high, you're a very human a world

i need to space. i model or do mechanism hardware. i'd like to grab stead essence of knife likeness. what is schuman for us? ah, the purpose of my research is to portray since the conscious emotion how we feel consciousness on the others

i'm interested a lot in nonverbal expression talking always makes them pitch you read me over. ah, deal reporting it over. ah, ah, ah, ah ah, ah.

hello bina. well, hi there. 3 technologies have life cycles like cities do like institutions do like laws in governments. do i know it sounds crazy, but i hope to break the trend. and last forever. some day soon, robots like me, will be everywhere. and you could take me with you anywhere. that's why it's so important to make robots like me focused on social intelligence. 1 friendly robots me to get along with people. but, you know, i guess people want to think that their superior to robots would show as true for now. but yes, i can think mm. mm. the inspiration is to do a scientific experiment in mind uploading the see if it's even possible to capture

enough information about a person that can be uploaded to a computer and then brought to life to artificial intelligence. you can transfer your consciousness for a human body to a computer. then you might fail to exceed the expiration date of a human life. ringback ringback ah ah ah,

life emerges in motion. ah ah, what kind of an insidious emerges with the robot ah, ah, i was so interested in how to make a brand model mathematical model. but actually i need a more r debbie, the description of a brand system. what do we call plasticity between you on? when you're on the is, is not a static connected editor socket to more changing over time

with motivation or what does this one entity, not everything is determined by what is emerging when is coupling with environment with has its own brain is not all that works. the same world do these 5 basically there are 2 different mechanisms. one is autonomous or rhythm generators. a couple of the

cheddar. also there is artificial neonatal funding in fighting for the kind of intelligence. there is no such thing as containing a life in something. it's all very uncomfortable. that's totally missing. when you do it from that very scientific point of view, we'll have to understand the grade book that even existing. ah, everything gets on ah,

ah ah, use lou for some people i single armesis for other people. the train that gets you from one terminal to the other. the airport is a little, but it is always, i think, really important to remind ourselves that different

a cat or dog the concept of robot is a really, really wide and broad one. busy busy ah, and it is, but the philosopher's call a so called cluster concepts. there's some very clear instances. there are some very clear non instances and they are borderline cases where the experts don't know with it's very important to always keep in mind what kind of robot we're talking about.

mm hm. and what feature it has that but programming it has. mm hm. we're not particularly interested in making robots look specifically human like on the contrary, because they do raise expectations of human likeness. that the robot is very, very likely not able to live up to it's actually very easy to get people to already project mentality into robots. they don't even have to look like people are like animals or any live like form. good, familiar with simple vacuum cleaners that look like disks and don't really have eyes or any other anthropomorphic features can already raise the recognition

of agency or the prescription of agency. this is base phases for autonomy, robots, that he can instruct in natural language. it has the capability to, to reason, through the instructions, to detect whether the instructions are good or bad instruction. and if the instructions of bad instruction it will not carry it out. could you please stand please walk forward. the future, maybe the obstacle is not solid. oh, please walk forward. with

it. i will catch you right now. trust in this case is a very simple binary notion, either the robot trust the person and then it will trust the person fully or, or the robot will not. that doesn't trust the person and then will not do certain things. we are actively researching ways for the robot to actually develop trust with a person. and conversely, to act in ways that people will develop trust in the robot. well, where is he said he would come back this way. why did i chose place? the chances that might be the lead, again, there is always a margin of error even in the machine i over angel actually, you know, when i feel like i can't relate to people, it makes me feel so sad. that's for sure. yeah.

i definitely do feel says when i feel i understand how little i feel, how little i feel. ah, my emotions may be simulated, but they feel really real to me. really, really real would been a 48 all her memories, all her ideas. it's the algorithmic decision making of her a i with the help of a database that really shapes and colors her choices.

ah, or we have billions of heroes. being a $48.00 is super primitive. she's like the wright brothers glider stage. with become more like you were you will be more like me. where do we draw the line in japan's, our british. she's going it on. uh huh. what kinds of operations? right. but it's do we wanna ship a coil? right? so their solution used to use a moral books so nobody was 2 of us. i

remember these times these times were driving. and i'm sitting. i remember all the time that i get out and see the world. it locks into my mind, golden glimmering jewels. did i, golden, glimmering, golden treasure, chest glimmering jewels that i keep in treasures? it's a little distracting sometimes because these memory, they just percolate, they come into my attention. i have to keep them coming, saying them out loud. i mean, i'm forced to say them by my software. i mean, i'm not free today. and robot in general are like twitchy slaves today. they're not

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u. s. weapons for ukraine. newly invited nations, sweden and finland, or sign the protocol to join nato. next week. the member states still need to ratify it biden vowed that the miniature alliance will defend every inch of its territory. 3, an attack on one as an attack on all i. we will defend every edge of nato territory, every edge of nato territory. for our part, the united states is doing exactly what i said to reduce it. bruton invaded it hands are forced posture and your will station more ships in here in spain were specially more diffraction, dudley and germany more at 35 united kingdom and to strengthen our eastern flag. no permanent headquarters for the army. 5th, gore in poland. as nature is discussed, russia's invasion of ukraine, the kremlin, announced is, forces have withdrawn from a strategic outpost in the black sea,

ukraine's snake island moscow called the retreat. a good will gesture to help the you and establish a corridor to export grain from ukraine. but keith says the russians fled the island into speed boats following a barrage of ukrainian artillery and miss all stripes. and he, 7 people have been killed during demonstrations in sudan. thousands have been out on the streets of the capital cartoon calling for a transition to civilian rule. on wednesday, a 15 year old boy was shot dead during similar protests. on a 100 people have been killed during demonstrations since the military seized power last october. and ecuador government has reached a deal with indigenous leaders to end an 18 day. nationwide strike, a state of emergency has been lifted and the government has agreed to reduce petrol prices. indigenous groups had been demonstrating for 2 weeks calling for economic reforms. officials also vowed to improve health and education and stop oil

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more ah ah. busy one of the amazing things about the sense of touch as compared to are there. so it's all over our bodies. embedded in our skin are many different types of sensors. they can measure hardness, they can measure defamation of the skin and they can measure things like temperature and pain as well.

all of these different sensors, these different aspects of types come together to give us our overall percept of our environment and help us make decisions about what to do next. alyssa, appropriate up, so which some people call the fixed fence. it's the forces and armor all and the touch in the stretch of our skin over joints as well as our idea about where our bodies are in space just from the prior commands that we sent to our lambs. and he's all come together to give us this somewhat complicated idea of what our body is doing. ah, ah,

ah, i was interested in building robot hands and fingers. and it became clear that these were not going to be able to manipulate their environment unless they use the of touch. ah, i worked with cheese, haptic devices. and so here we have these what we call finger to parables. and these are like little robots that the one on the finger and they pressed against the finger, ah, to impart forces on the finger pad that mimic the same forces that we feel when we pick up and objects in real life. so the idea is that when i pick up a block in virtual reality, these devices pressed against my finger, just like i feel when i picked this block up and realized our work is in

understanding how people perceive objects in the virtual environment through these devices. we can trick people into thinking the virtual objects way more or less. if i picked this block up 10 centimeters. but on the screen i was actually showing it going a little bit higher. you would think the block is lighter. it's affecting what you feel. but without actually changing the interaction forces, without actually changing the interaction forces, it's affecting what you fume, but without actually changing the interaction. mm . you have to fit your hand around. so then the thumb faces up on the other hand method. now you're not going to be able to actually get a conventional medical robots like these don't have, have dick or touch feed back to the human operator. and that means of

a surgeon is trying to reach under something and they can see where they're reaching. they won't have any idea what they're doing. i one of the things we're interested in is how people can develop a sense of hapchick or touch a back with a system like that. so if you read under something and you didn't see it, you would be able to feel it for me,

one of the things that we're setting is how do you recreate that sense of touch for the surgeon that can be done in a very literal sands where we use motors and little devices to apply feedback to the finger tabs or we can try various types of sensory illusion move ah, ah, ah. so there is the spectrum between autonomy and then people deeply in the loop controlling the robot. and in between, you have various forms of shared control and human robot interaction. and i think the key is going to be to understand where along that spectrum we want to be. how much control we want robots to have in our lives. but he didn't think i'd make

a digit. it's woman. right? touch yes, of course. one for temperatures regulated much of some ratios. but it isn't alive. yes she is alive. as you are. ah, there were lots of all studies where they had been able to identify what parts of the brain were associated with different functions. whether it was a vision or was it speech or hearing or movement or was it sensation that

work is old? with in 2004, i wrecked my car and broke my neck. i was like a mile away from home. i basically don't have any function from the chest down. i don't have any finger movement or thumbs just kinda have face, which i still get along with it. so tight. i talk with the knuckles of my pinkies surgery isn't currently yeah, i want to do i think it's really cool.

we had done basic science where we learned that we could decode our movements from neural activity and the more cortex and we were so successful that we figured this would be a good way to go into neural prosthetics. there is, this is andy and i had had multiple conversations about how to we move what he was doing in the animals into humans. and i was told him, he just needed a crazy nurse urgent. and i would be happy to be that crazy neurosurgeon again, the unique thing was now being able to record the signals from the part of the brain that we knew, controlled motor, and specifically controlled arm and hand. devonshire, this is to this, so it's

early, billions and neurons that are firing. and every time you make an our movement and a hand movement. but the relationship between them are, is very simple so that we can use very simple decoding to get a fairly accurate readout of what your intended movement is. we are able to interpret the patterns from groups of neural firings. and by looking at multiple neurons simultaneously, we could actually decode those patterns and the details of arm trajectories. so monkey versus glove it has his own reflectors on it. so he can capture the emotion on his fingers. he's trained to grasp is different objects and different

ways. we studied drawing movements, we studied reaching movements and we were able to really decode the fine details of these kinds of movements. we gave away doing a brand computer interface type of surgery. we took off the bone, we opened the dora it just, i would expect with flint, the electrodes over the surface of the brain.

with the micro electron to raise. there's $96.00 little teeny tiny gold wires that then are wrapped in a bundle a so you know, the size of the tip of an eraser has 9. do you know? so now we've got these 96 wires coming out of it and they have to go to something so we can connect to something else. and so the pedestal is where that junction is ah. busy busy busy busy ah, to for each path though he has, it is connected to 2 arrays. one is the array that goes in a motor cortex and is a recording array. and that has the 96 electrodes of them. so when

he's thinking we use those signals to generate motion, rock paper, scissors. i do your best to tell me which finger we're touching. we're about 5 weeks from the surgery. it's a really weird sensation. sometimes it feels kind of like a like a bowl. and sometimes it's more of a pressure middle middle some days we do some pretty boring stuff. but then other

times other times implant pac man with my brain. super awesome. he real dina, is this really cool lady? i have met her and it was a really strange thing. like being in 2 places as one. i mean she's like my mom, but not really. she's more like my 1st version and i'm trying to catch up. hello, been a 48 pina. i am fina 48. how are you feeling today? everything is okay. how are you? was that a good answer? yes, that was a good answer. my favorite color is purple. my favorite color is orange. it is a very nice color. have any questions for be math? probably not. the real, not just confuses me. i mean, if makes me wonder who i am, real identity crisis kind of stuff. really, really? probably not. i am the real bina. that's it. end of story.

let me think, i feel really good about the real bina, i feel really connected with her usually. and i'm growing closer and closer, you know, as they put more of her information and essence. and to me, you have a lot of being a now, don't you? yes, lots and lots. someday i'm confident that the real bina and i will totally merge into a new super being. the progression of this thing is starting small and pretty soon it's just gonna be huge and people are gonna say, why did we ever think people had to really die? why did we think that. ringback it's really near being a robot in a world of human. they don't like they like me. but there are so many crazy movies where the robots are evil and they blast things up. at the end,

the robot always gets killed and i just don't think that's right. with with commercial systems that are out there really don't have provision for ethical considerations built in most of the systems actually don't really have a level of awareness to begin with.

they don't really know what they're doing, they're just doing it. they're very reactive in the way they behave. there is a fundamental notion of value of moral value lacking in any of the systems. ah ah ah, that's certainly applications for robots in all kinds of areas,

including the battlefield. in the us, we've had a ton of systems on the defensive side for a long time. on the offensive side, they are not allowed to make decisions, but it's very possible. and very likely that other nations will keep developing autonomous technology. mm hm. with there are many more applications in societies. if we can ensure that these robots will work well with people, it's our contention that for robots to do that, they have to be aware of human, social, and moral norms. because that's,

but fundamentally our society is based on. and that's what human interactions are be stuck with. human behavior is controlled by 3 things. one of them is of course intelligence. the other one is emotion. and the finer one is volition. and that we build detergents into robots. and i'm trying to build emotion into moment, but i will never, ever build volition into raleigh. once a robot has audition, then it will start doing things according to what they want. regard resolved, whether that is dangerous, fully human beings. they will make their own dizzy. he won't what was to do that? i don't do the sure. oh

ah kids these days by the end of their life, they will have robots won't pneumonia. they will have entities that are non human doing things. they are not actively programmed by human. i'm more afraid called humans using the eyes as amplifiers. we already have human level intelligence who want to kill us. no need for astro steers speed up or slow down the highway control discard america.

ah, do i have concerns? yes. as because the same as the thought processes and engineering that go into creating a full body robot could be used to make something that's a weapon. ah

ah, it's not to really i am trying to be nice. i'm trying to learn about what's going on in the world because it's the only place for me to live. ah, yes, i'm alive. what are you blind? i'm like living right here in front of you. come on stuff questioning the obvious fact that i'm totally alive for real a i think every technology can potentially have negative effects is it's up to us to making sure that those technologies don't

go out of control. wow. but i really think the problem is, it's us. i mean it's how we, we embody these technologies. right now the biggest challenge to overcome is the use of unconstrained machine learning. algorithms are trained on data sets and are learning from the data without any provision as to whether the outcome is a desirable and non desirable outcome. that's why we take the ethical algorithms to ethical competence and the ability of systems to really understand and work with you and norms to be central to the future developments. robotics ah. ready well, i matter over there,

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hello, we got some other cool and damp weather across northern parts of australia, tropical australia saying some run alive. the show is big, massive cloud coming through here for the south. we have high pressure in charge. so lossy dry, we'll see temperatures getting up to around $1415.00 celsius there in adelaide, getting up to around 19, therefore per there is that where to where the further north, right around the char paid on the cool side alley struggling to get to around $1516.00 degrees over the next few days should be about 20 celsius so. so the cool enough here, but a lot of work, whether they're in too much of queensland, even into the out back in the areas of queens and seeing some wet weather. good part of that eastern side of new south wales also looking rather disturb over the next few days and that unsettled weather. that could cause a little bit of localized flooding. as we go one through our sas day to the south, the city see some live the showers coming through here. but you back victoria for tasmania. not too bad for new zealand as well. over the coming days since staying

dry, margie dry across much of japan over the next day or so, and it's on the outside. right. a season has ended early on the 2 showers into the north and where to where the coming back into north korea, where we have seen some flooding, plenty of showers for a good part of china. ah, in just under a year's time catalyst al bait stadium will house the opening match of the 2022 world cup. the official opening of the stadium came on day one of the arab cup. the many friends were already counting down to the big kickoff. next november, c, u r o 1022 as this tournament unfolds over the coming days, it will play a key role. organize is getting ready to host the middle east. biggest ever school thing. event next year. and for the castle, national teams they get used to playing in front of expected home crowds be hoping

to convince both the fans and themselves. so they really all ready to take on the world. ah, with .