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we've taken the click live show on the road, to the beautiful setting of bikaner house, new delhi. new delhi! thank you for having us! are you well? cheering and applause and it's here that we wowed audiences with the coolest tech we have seen on our travels. we've painted colours in the air, tickled their ears, took them to the future, and to the distant past. this is hampi, once the capital of the vijayanagara dynasty, and by the 16th century, it was the second—largest mediaeval—era city in the world. since 1565, it's lain in ruins, but over recent years this unesco world heritage site has been 3d—scanned by several different organisations. not only does this mean that what's still there can be digitally preserved, but it's also meant that historians have been able to reconstruct a virtual model of how it would've looked in his heyday. so, we're now going to take a walk—through of the temple site.
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to do that, we also need a projector, which is going to shine down onto the model, and a camera up there which is going to watch for the routes that i want to describe. and this is how i'm going to show it where i want to go. once you've described your route it takes you on a virtual tour, and while you enjoy the scenery on the screen, you can see exactly where you are on the model too. if you digitally preserving this you are keeping it forfuture generations, to be able to really see what used to be existing. the laser pointer and footprints are just the first experiment into how others might experience this kind of virtual tour. it's crying out for a virtual reality set up, obviously. and this technique will also be useful to explore sites other than those from times gone by. this kind of whole technique i think would go very well where you're looking at visualisations of new architectures, new buildings, where you also have people who are exploring things. so seeing a physical form and a virtual form together,
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it will really help people to be able to visualise things and also maybe change, digitally you can change anything, so that is the excitement. visara technologies is one of many start—ups that are being spun out of the 23 indian institutes of technology, universities which span the country, providing a tech education for tens of thousands of young indians, and provide incubators to allow their research to be turned into small businesses after graduation. one of the visions of iit was to create world—class engineers and world class projects, and perform world—class research, and it has certainly had some global success stories. these include sundar pichai, the ceo of google, and more recently, binny ba nsal. he's the co—founder of flipkart, a massive online shopping site launched in 2007, six years before amazon arrived in the country. it's considered one of india's most successful start—ups. and when walmart recently bought most of the company, the deal made binny a billionaire. and whilst in delhi,
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i couldn't resist grabbing a few minutes with the man himself to get a snapshot of the indian tech industry. we have a lot bigger market, lot bigger economy, we have a lot more people on the internet. ten years back we had 15—20 million people on the internet, now we have more than 350—400 million people connected. that has created a huge market for indian entrepreneurs now, to really dream big and execute, which wasn't the case before. what do you think india is really good at? i think one thing india is really good at is producing global leaders. if you look at companies like pepsi, google, microsoft, a lot of the ceos today are indian.
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and that kind of gives me hope that one day not so much in the future we'll have the next google or microsoft coming out of india, because indian entrepreneurs and their leaders i think can scale businesses globally much better than maybe their chinese counterparts. what do you think india is not good at? we tend to take shortcuts to problems because so many other things are broken, so that is something that also needs a mindset change. artificial intelligence, good or bad for india? great because it can solve healthcare at scale, it can solve education at scale, it can solve so many of these societal issues at scale. i canjust imagine that happening. bad because it is going to take away a large number of jobs, so that becomes... but i think that is a problem we'll define and can be solved
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with the right intentions and the right solutions. so i'm more optimistic than pessimistic about al. thank you for your time. thank you. back at the live show, when we weren't creating the world's greatest selfie, or playing the world's best game — designed by click, patent pending incidentally — we spoke to the pioneers of india's burgeoning space industry, and asked the question on the minds of over one billion people — can a self—driving car survive india's traffic? over the past few years, we've been developing the technology, as you can see the vehicle can see without radars, then we've developed software to deal with the unsecured and chaotic traffic and environment conditions in india. it is a very hard problem and so far we have done some tests, but it would take us a lot more time to go into the indian cities and deal with the chaotic traffic
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and peak traffic hours in india. see? not quite as crazy as you first thought. one of the big themes that came out of click live in india was the power of artificial intelligence and its impact on people's work, especially on theirjobs. one company hoping to ride the ai boom is imerit. and its founder, radha basu, explained how i won'tjust replace humans, it needs a humid workforce to train the algorithms in the first place by clearly annotating training images like these. could you explain to everyone here what imerit does? in order for al algorithms to work, they have to be trained. it's like computer programming. if you just put a computer there and say work it doesn't work. so you have to programme it. that's called training ai. what we do is train aland enrich the data so that our clients can get the best results out of their ai algorithms.
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so you have a huge human workforce training ai. we've some examples of the kinds of things that your workers do that we'll put up on the screen. these are some examples of that your humans are doing to create this training data, yeah. that's correct. we're called humans in the loop. humans in the loop of ai. so it could be as simple as taking different cars in a parking lot, doing bounding boxes around them, knowing which cars have damage, so being able to look at automatically picking that up and sending that back like an insurance investigator would do. this is where we've probably done the most work. we've done more than 15 million images for self—driving autonomous cars. we work with a variety of car manufacturers. and, if you look at this, it's called bounding boxes and polygons. but it's at a pixel level. so it's dense pixel segmentation. so think, for example,
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there are a few toes onto the crosswalk. how do you know whether that belongs to a cat, to a small child? there's a wad of paper on the street, do you know if it's a rock or a wad of paper? so when we do this pixel segmentation, it's very complex and you can have up to 50—70 different things you're marking. just to be clear then, you're training the ai, this is a person, this is a car, and then it goes away and learns from that? so when the car looks at the street scene, we have trained the ai algorithms so that the computer can learn from it. for the first time, we have technologies in al that can be used for crucial societal applications, particularly like healthcare. there are... in the amount of data, healthcare is about a third of the data. and the ability that we have, as you can see there, this is our work, where you can actually go in and look at cancer
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cells, and we actually annotate them in these images and use this to train the ai algorithms. and if you think about this in a broad societal sense, this can be taken to a large number of people who do not have access to this kind of care, and you can do pre—screening for cancer cells. what's really important is the type of person that you employee? so that, i think, is the core, i would say, the core contribution of imerit. imerit has about 1,500 people, we're hiring 200—300 people per quarter. so ai is creating jobs. wow. 50% of the workforce, for a technology services company,
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50% of the workforce are women. yes! applause and 80% of the workforce are coming from low—income backgrounds. they could be young muslim women. we have one centre that's called the centre of excellence for computer vision, that's for image processing. and that centre is all young muslim women in a very poor community. and that's it for now from india. thank you so much for watching and don't forget, we live on facebook and on twitter @bbcclick, where you can see loads of extra backstage photos and fun. but for now, and from this wonderful audience, it's goodbye and we'll see you soon! it was so let's earlier today.
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further west, sunshine and showers, but it has been cloudy across the atla ntic but it has been cloudy across the atlantic for the last few days, but there is now a clear gap of high—pressure building its way in from... this means we're going to see plenty of dry weather over the next few days the nights will be decidedly chilly and there is still the potential of some wind and rain across parts of the north. here is the rain we had across the south revere today, clearing away, most places and the day on a dry night. it stays dry with clear and starry
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skies overhead. in towns and cities, it is going to feel decidedly chilly. in the countryside, some places will get to chilly and some places will get to chilly and some places might even get to —— will get to freezing and some places might even get below freezing. tomorrow is looking like a lovely day foremost. maybe the odd shower. northwest scotland's, most places will be dry, temperatures might be a bit higher than they were today. high—pressure tries to hold firm as we get on into tuesday, but we see something of a change towards the northwest. frontal systems approach in bringing outbreaks of rain and cloud, so another chilly start for most of us. we hold onto some spells of sunshine through the day, for western scotla nd through the day, for western scotland and northern ireland, outbreaks of rain and strengthening
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wind as well. temperatures, trying the air in from the southwest at this stage, so the temperatures will start to go upwards. a bit of a split during tuesday night, southern areas will have the coldest of the weather. further north, more cloud and outbreaks of rain but it will be militantly and outbreaks of rain but it will be milita ntly —— relatively and outbreaks of rain but it will be militantly —— relatively mild. breezy conditions, some rain at times. further south, turning warmer. this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 8pm. jeremy corbyn says he would back another referendum on brexit — if labour party members vote for it at conference. i'm their elected leader of this party, elected as the leader to bring greater democracy to this party. there will be clear votes in conference. i don't know what will come out of all the meetings going on. following eu leaders‘
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