despite pushing hard to pull level against the number one side in the world. they trailed by one goal with one minute left but a late australian steal meant there would be no chance of getting the victory. great match but they lost 47—46. australia won the series as well. through the game you can look at some of the critical moments where we could have got ahead of australia but we have to look at the positives, the way that we picked ourselves up, we came out and showed them, the girls fought from the start to the end and we made them made changes and you've got to do that as a coach, challenge the coach as well as the team. sergio garcia led from start to finish at the dubai desert classic. the spaniard carded a bogey three final cut of 69 to finish on mountain and.

it's his first european tour title in more than three years. and £350,000. victory moves garcia back into the world's top ten. tyrrell hatton of england wasjoint third. that's all the sports from sportsday. coming up next on bbc news, it's click. for decades, scientists all around the world have been trying to create a machine that can match our intelligence. and nowadays artificially intelligent algorithms can perform many tasks much better than us. for a long time scientists have been using games like chess, draughts and go as a benchmark for testing ai.

and that's because all these games have a certain amount of unpredictability built into them. namely, their human opponents. but this week the ai community has been celebrating a big win after a poker playing algorithm called liberatus defeated four top human players in a 20—day match of heads up no—limit texas hold ‘em poker. i've been using poker as a benchmark for 12 years. now the best ai has surpassed the level of the best humans but even this big win is only a little step towards creating a general artificial intelligence. one capable of sophisticated thought across a wide spectrum of areas, and solving problems just as well as a human can. it's an incredible time. and it's very hard to forecast. you know, what can these things do? it's a hard thing to think

through, and has really incredible possibilities. but it's, i think it's impossible to forecast accurately. speech has been another big challenge for al researchers. personal assistants and chat bots are becoming more sophisticated, but they so far can't fool us into thinking that they're human. but what if you thought you were talking to another person? konichiwa. do you speak english? speaks japanese. would that make you more likely to trust it? and develop a relationship? well, two researchers at the london school of economics came up with an experiment to see if we would communicate better with al if its messages were delivered to us by a human. they call this computer human hybrid the echoborg. and to explore the concept, jane copestick found herself

becoming an echoborg herself. the echoborg was inspired by research from stanley milgram. he is the professor behind the controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s, to see if people would deliver electric shocks to others if instructed to by an authority figure. milgram also studied body perception, to determine if we hold preformed opinions of other people based on their looks. by using hidden earpieces, people could speak someone else‘s thoughts through their own body. the echoborg has updated this research for the 21st century, to see if people will react better to artificial intelligence. such as the messages from an online chat bot. if they are being delivered by a human. i'm in the first stages of testing this out by becoming an echoborg myself. i'm starting my speech shadowing practice. the first step in becoming a fully fledged echoborg. the professors have told me this process will take at least eight hours for me to get any good at it. i'm starting my first practice withjk rowling's harvard commencement speech.

members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers... by shadowing speech, i should be able to quickly repeat back the messages from a chat bot so people won't realise they aren't my own thoughts. it may seem something paradox, but there's horses in the cow... i did something and scuttled somewhere. now, to put it to the test, i'm meeting creator professor alex gillespie at the london school of economics. hello, how are you doing? great to see you, come in. and kevin corti, who called in on skype. so would that go round your neck? that goes around your neck. first step for echoborg. kevin is using a chat bot called rose, which is not preprogrammed. the most noticeable problem in becoming a convincing ai are the delays while rose thinks of a response to the question. where do you come from? i was born in san francisco. really? in the united states. when were you born? couple of years ago. just a couple of years ago? are you a chat bot?

i'm a human. i thought for a moment you might be a chat bot. republic of ireland and croatia and france. my mother's from ireland. really? a magical place full of rain and crazy people. she says. well... that was... interesting. weird. what you notice, they tend to be quite disconnected. it takes each sentence as a stand—alone sentence. some of them will speak like they are artificial intelligence, and some of them will pretend not to be. so this one's pretending not to be. but although last time i spoke to it, it said it was artificial intelligence. oh, it's confused. our final test for the echoborg was to bring it on stage in front of an audience of 700 people at the bbc future conference in australia. a question which a lot

of humans find difficult... what is the capital of australia? canberra. 0k, good. and what is 235 multiplied by 676? i think it's 158,860. that's pretty impressive. here and now. how do i know you are human, how do you know i'm human? because i believe. you believe? because i appreciate beauty. because people saw me in the room. go ask them. in fact, some of the audience members were fooled. one thought it was a real conversation with a human, not an artificial intelligence. based on my appearance. some people thought you didn't want to talk about artificial intelligence. that you were trying to avoid the question, they really thought you were trying to avoid the questions. someone even said, had it been

a man would it have been perceived differently? i think so. without becoming fully fledged echoborgs, we are already giving a voice to artificial intelligence every day. through the algorithms guiding our news consumption, to our shopping habits and online searches. we're bringing al to life more and more. projects like the echoborg let us reflect on what this means for our ai future and perhaps even what it means to be human. where are the gadgets?

playtime was never like this in my day. i've been taking a look at some of the latest toys hoping to light up the faces of children and grown—ups. and, inevitably, a few of them could be found at london's toy fair. this looks like a drone in a cage and that's because it is. it's also a proof of concept for a toy that's going to be available later this year. its inventor here is wearing this glove, which means you can control it via gestures. let's take a look at what it can do. it all looks pretty simple, but i know you've been studying robotics for 15 years, so there's quite a bit more to this than meets the eye, isn't there? yes, absolutely. once the science of gestures has been codified, and that's what we've been able to do, as you can imagine, we can bring all sorts of robotic toys out, and consumer devices. the brain itself is in the glove, in the circuitry and electronics. and the algorithms embedded in the glove. the drone is merely a conduit to the gestures being

recorded on the hand. there was also a clear trend towards giving kids a deeper level of control when it comes to toy gadgets. this is a robot that aims to help kids learn to code. they can operate it manually through the app, or set up sequences of the functions they'd like it to carry out. it looks pretty raw when you've got all these leads and buttons, so it really is giving kids a chance to develop something. i also recently got my hands on a drone that kids can programme, spending time tweaking code at a computer or using drag and drop blocks. ijust had a play around with some of the drone‘s functions. so maybe that shows who the real kid is. first of all i press w, which should get the drone up and running. this is a spot of that well—known activity, drone bowling. back a bit.

we need to go down. down... other way round. no, no, back. oh yeah! yes, the skittles are down here on the floor. and i've done it! it's notjust about flying, though, you may want to do a bit of driving. last year we learned quite how much of an appetite there was for augmented reality in gaming. how about adding a robot to the mix? and give the big kids a chance for some play, too. there is the enemy. if i can turn around quickly enough. trying to turn around. i'm going to shoot. that's it. and i've hit.

this gaming robot, much like virtual avatars, becomes stronger as you use it. it's also customisable and upgradable, with the ability to add wheels or even take on another robot in the room. or if you want to get yourself moving, how about a personal training robot? this prototype has limited functionality, but still managed to put me through my paces. not that it fought too hard when i decided i'd had enough. that's it for this week. this was the shorter version of

click. you can see the longer version online. thanks fer watching: it isa it is a chilly one tonight. tomorrow morning really nippy too, frost developing, some mist and fog, later on, rain. in the short—term, pretty quiet, turning cold, you can pick out some mist patches developing through the night into the early hours of monday. these are the city centre temperatures come in rural areas it will be colder. the rain coming out of the west as it often does, a weather front linking this big area of low pressures that means

rainfor big area of low pressures that means rain for the west country and wales, eventually northern ireland too, in the east of the uk it will stay dry throughout the afternoon so dry in london, norwich, and wet for example in london and belfast. monday evening by rush hour the rain will spill into the midlands, maybe even snow across the upland areas of northern britain. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 7pm — nhs under pressure — the number of people waiting more than 18 weeks for hospital treatment in england has doubled since 2012 — bbc research shows. passengers from country subjected to america's travel ban sees the chance to fly to the us as judges refused to fly to the us as judges refused to reverse the suspension of the controversial order. ministers pledge more affordable homes will be built in england —

aimed at tackling the high cost of renting. also in the next hour — wales get off to a flying start in the six nations. they're top of the table after beating italy in rome — we'll have full details of this and today's other action in sportsday at 7.30pm. and in meet the author — jim naughtie talks to sophie kinsella about her new book.