that improve and that sometimes, learn to solve problems in ways that even we hadn't thought of. well, here at microsoft's future decoded event, ai is at the top of the agenda. these days, there are very real examples of how ai are starting to be able to do things that were once only the reserve of humans. it is learning to drive, to play games. it has learned to paint. it has learned to understand what we say. each ten year or so we seem to have a breakthrough moment where we take a piece of human ability and defeat it with machine. ‘96 it was chess, go, last year — and we all worry. what that is demonstrating is that our ais are extraordinarily good and superhuman in tasks that we can specify and understand. they can improve and self improve. the challenge is this whole idea of general intelligence or transfer across tasks and that proves much more challenging,

much more difficult. we think it will take many decades to unfathom that, and the old adage was, you cannot teach a machine to do something without programming, but if you have a learning capacity in the system that allows it to go beyond the performance that was originally given to the system. and it is certainly true that al is already replacing us in particularjobs. we will talk more about that later. but we thought we would start with an interesting phenomenon which is happening in certain parts of the developing world, where ai is actually creating jobs. see, in orderfor artificial intelligence to learn, it needs to have access to loads and loads of data. for example, self driving cars need access to images where all the objects in them are correctly tagged. that work is being done by humans. david lee sent this report, not from california, but from where the artificial intelligence journey really starts.

this is the kibera slum in nairobi, kenya. more than a million people live here. i am 10,000 miles and what feels like an entire universe away from the lush campuses of silicon valley. how are you? hello! the people i am here to meet are every bit as vital to the next wave of cutting edge tech as anyone you could meet in california. you have your brother living here? yes, my brother, my daughter and my mum. are they all supported by you? yes. they are supported by me. this is brenda, she's a 26—year—old single mother, who has lived in kibera her entire life. how does it feel to be creating the technology that is going to change the future? it feels so good. at least you get to do something unique from others. at least with my work that i am doing, i believe i work

for something that is going to help me. not even me in the future, but it will help someone in the future. every workday, brenda travels for around two hours to a building on the other side of nairobi. she is among a team of around 2,000 people who work in this building for samasource, an organisation that recruits people from the very poorest parts of the world. in some cases, that means those who are earning less than $2 a day. here, they earn around $9 a day and there are importantjob is to give artificial intelligence its intelligence. when artificial intelligence works, it sometimes feels like magic. but really, what it is is data, lots and lots of data. if you want a self driving car to know what a person is, you have to feed it loads of pictures of people. if you want it to know what tree is, it takes millions and millions of pictures of trees. that is what is called "training data", and it is here where that data is created.

so, depending on the instructions, we are going to basically tag, or annotate, items of interest. right. how is that? that's good. is that good? not quite right? not quite right. laughter. the item needs to be squarely inside that box. if we zoom in... turns out no pixel can be out of place, or unaccounted for. the sky and the street signs, the pedestrians and the lanes, everything needs tagging. once the work is done, a supervisor will check it is up to scratch. the quickest, sharpest annotators in the team will win prizes, such as shopping vouchers. samasource's clients include google, salesforce, ebay, yahoo and many others, working on everything from self driving cars to online shopping. one recent project from microsoft's bing search engine

helped it become better at identifying certain types of clothing. while most of their employees are of course in the developing world, the company's headquarters can be found in san francisco's mission district. when i first started this business ten years ago, very smart people in the tech world and in the world of big philanthropy said it was a wonderful idea, but it would never work. lila touts her company's record on quality and security, reasons why tech firms come to them. but of course, there is a very obvious reason why these tasks are outsourced to places where wages are rock bottom and people are desperate for work. some of your clients are the biggest, richest companies in the world. can they not afford to pay more than $9 a day for this work? we make a guarantee to every single worker at samasource that they are paid a living wage. if we were to pay people substantially more than that in some of the markets we are in,

we would throw everything off and it would have a potentially negative impact on the cost of housing, the cost of food, et cetera and the communities in which our workers live and thrive. so, for us, we are on average, increasing our workers household income by over 500%. it is too small for my big head. you know the way you remember you are good at something and it turns out you weren't? this is me discovering that with batting. luckily, indian cricket legend anil kumble was on hand to show how it ought to be done. the most important factor for any bastman is bat speed and how much twist at the time of impact and the quality of the shot itself, how close to this sweet spot here. bat speed, twist and how close you are to hitting the sweet spot are now measurable thanks to new artificial intelligence

technology, power bat. it is being developed by kumble's company, spektakom. at the heart of a system is a clever sticker on the back of the bat. this is a cluster of sensors, you have a bluetooth aerial, but also gyro sensor which measures the twist of the bat, the angle and the velocity as well. there is also a sensor for vibration so you can detect where the ball is hitting in approximation to that all—importa nt sweet spot. the sticker sends those measurements for the speed, the twist, the quality of the shot, and they are then combined to calculate the power. it is essentially the energy you get into the shot. the system aims to take fans watching the game up close to what's happening on the pitch. the first use is to enhance fan engagement.

everybody talks about timing of the shot. this was powerfully hit. this was sweetly timed. what does that all mean in real—time numbers, in real—time data? the amateur version of power bat communicates directly to a mobile phone via bluetooth, but because you can't carry a mobile in professional games, with the pro set—up, all data runs to a device hidden behind the stumps. this is how the professional system works. the data comes from a tag on the back of a bat and then comes to stumpy, the stump box buried underground. you can see this antenna, this bit will be poking out from the top of the pitch. the data is sent down the cable to the cloud where an algorithm does its work. and this is where microsoft's expertise in artificial intelligence takes the field. we found that we can apply

technology to a very traditional sport, cricket, and actually enhance the user engagement and the player and the coach insight into what's actually happening at the cricket bat. tech now can help both the coaches and the players achieve a new level of performance. the pro power bat might end up being used by umpires, especially if the broadcasters now using it in the indian professional league call out bad on—field umpiring decisions. the mobile app is more about cricket fans and amateur players getting closer to emulating their heroes. for the fan out there who wants to look up to his hero, what is the benchmark for him to achieve? can you emulate him? can you be as close to power that he can deliver, can you do that? that is something you can do. at the end of the day, in a polite arrangement, anil let me bowl him out.

yes, it was fake but i got him first ball. it felt great. watch this for a second. see, all you needed was just one ball. that is it for the shortcut of click this week. the full version is up on iplayer. watch it right now and don't forget we are all over social media. we live on facebook and on twitter @bbcclick and instagram at @bbcclick and we have a you tube channel too. youtube.com/....guess what — bbc click. anyway, thanks for watching and we will see you soon. hello.

rain for a few of you out there today but for others, a pleasant sunday for this stage in november. reasonably mild. a few areas of low pressure driving the weather at the moment. this big stormy low across the central mediterranean, this is the remnants of hurricane 0scar pushing to the east of iceland, and this one in the bay of biscay creeping towards us slowly. in between main weather systems, not a huge amount of significant rain. a few heavy bursts in northern england. still some damp weather stretching from the wash, lincolnshire, down to the south—west and southern parts of wales. either side of it, brighter weather continues. the wind is still a key feature across northern scotland but not as strong as it was with gusts up to 50 mph this afternoon. a few showers in the western isles but much of scotland and northern ireland this afternoon should have a very pleasant one indeed with lots of sunshine to come and the winds lighter than yesterday. still a few heavy showers in north—west england and turning wetter to the west, wales, devon and cornwall this afternoon with further splashes of drizzle through the midlands, towards lincolnshire and south yorkshire not

out of the question. east anglia and the south—east will stay dry, temperatures in the teens. it stays mild enough into the evening as well. as we go into another evening of fireworks displays, most of you will be dry, the chance of some rain in parts of wales and the winds easing just a little bit. wetter weather towards the west of wales in particular, devon and cornwall. some patchy rain moving across england and the south of scotland during the first half of the night. more general wet weather into northern ireland and the far west of scotland as we start monday morning. temperatures are little lower than the past couple of nights but still holding up well clear of a frost. into monday, our main focus is an area of low pressure across the bay of biscay creeping ever closer. warm fronts across northern and western scotland, northern ireland, will bring some early rain. that will gradually ease off. brightening conditions, still some patchy rain across western areas during the day. the odd isolated shower across eastern parts of england but for many in wales, england, eastern scotland, a dry day on monday. some spells of hazy sunshine, highs around 15 or 16. the wind picks up a little into tuesday, again,

a few showers running away northwards across scotland and england but it is into northern ireland, wales, south—west england where we will see more persistent and heavy rain gradually working in. temperatures widely into the teens, 17 or 18 in the south—east corner, continuing with the mild theme with the rest of the week but still with a bit of wet weather at times. this is bbc news. the headlines... the businessman, aaron banks, insists all donations he made to the leave campaign complied with electoral law and says his critics are trying to undermine brexit. we know the electoral commission has a bias in this. the chairman has called it a collection of nonsense. everybody is biased against you. it is 52 versus 48. tributes are paid to the former cabinet secretary and head

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