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this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. because they just wouldn't survive. a world where humans evolve the headlines at 4:00pm. into robots leaving behind our more than 70 mps and now, talking about the animal care organic bodies of flesh and blood. peers sign a letter teams, we've got karen richmond here who is a senior aquarist. urging the government to ensure they're settling in well. julian assange faces it's not unheard of for us to have authorities in sweden seals coming from the west midlands if they request his extradition. up the river severn, but not quite in birmingham, is it? i know, it's quite different, but, a 10—year—old boy has died after being attacked by a dog yes, they are settling in really at a holiday park in cornwall. well and they seem quite happy. a 28—year—old woman has been plastic does have a big arrested in connection impact on all marine life. with the incident. what about seals in particular? they can quite often mistake it for food. they are very inquisitive creatures. the sudanese general who led a coup to overthrow long—term quite often they will play leader omar al—bashir, steps down just 2a hours with various things that they find. after he took charge of the country. there has been an increase of issues with frisbees recently that they are getting them caught around their necks, along anti—government protesters continue with nets and fishing hooks. professor ishiguro says his vision to demand a move away from military government. and these two are hopefully of one day abandoning our current going to provide a bit of a legacy for the rest human form is several doctors celebrate a new treatment, of their species, aren't they? thousand years away. called ‘gene silencing' yeah, hopefully. still, many here have doubts we are hoping to bring some about this brave new world. that's seen major success awareness into birmingham, so it's not a creature that this dream is a terrible dream. you would quite often see around in treating the crippling pain here, like you said, so we are hoping to raise a little it is impossible to unify caused by porphyria. bit of awareness, because all rubbish and all waterways algorithms and love. link back to the ocean, so we can make quite a big algorithms and artists, algorithms impact on the difference for these guys in the wild.
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well, they are swimming around now. you have finally seen them and, and it's crazy it's parts of us. dare i say it, they've given this tank the seal of approval. i prefer our limits to our now it's time for a look at really cold perfection. the weather with tomasz shafernaker. the weather has been mostly behaving professor ishiguro said one day is human would want to give itself today apart from a few robots their own right as we grow showers in the southeast and anglia in relationships with them but the showers are quite deceiving. and welcome them into our homes as companions and helpers. it is nippy out there and it is but this is not a view shared going to be a chilly evening and a by european governments. we are not of the opinion that al cold morning tomorrow. this evening, or robotic should have temperatures will be six to eight rights on their own. so the rights pertain to people. celsius, six or seven in the evening, there is some rain here to if you imagine that sunday the west of our neighbourhood trying there will be a robot that to nudge into northern ireland, may completely behaves like a human be cornwall, probably won't. the being, that moves like a human vast majority of the country tonight being, looks like a human being, will have clear skies and here is has facial expressions like a human the extent of the frost, you can see being, how then will in major towns and cities it will be you decide whether this freezing or below. tomorrow, weather entity has a soul or not? front tries to move in but it can't,
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so we have to discuss that, it will stall to the west of us, may what does that mean? be thick cloud in a few spots of for many gathered here, rain in western areas later in the the idea of remaining human day but tomorrow overruled the while entirely dividing body weather is looking bright but pretty and soul into organic entities is an impossibility. nippy, high art roundabout seven to but the pace of technological 10 degrees. progress means these issues will continue to be discussed. hello, this is bbc news. this week, the european union the headlines: published a set of guidelines for ethical artificial intelligence, more than 70 mps and peers sign a letter warning algorithms must urging the government to ensure not discriminate based julian assange faces on a person's gender, authorities in sweden race or age. if they request his extradition. they suggest, in europe, a person should always be told a ten—year—old boy has died when they are interacting after being attacked by a dog with an algorithm. at a holiday park in cornwall. earlier this year, the vatican a 28—year—old woman has been partnered with microsoft to offer arrested in connection with the incident. an international prize on ethics and artificial intelligence the sudanese general who led a coup to overthrow long—term with pope francis meeting the company's president, leader, omar al—bashir, brad smith. steps down just 2a hours after he took charge of the country. the church will also focus on the ethics of ai at its meaning anti—government protestors continue next year as it continues to explore to demand a move away from military government. the relationship between humans doctors celebrate a new treatment and emerging technologies. called gene silencing that's seen major success the conversation which can not only in treating the crippling pain affect our future of work but also shape what defines us
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caused by porphyria. as human beings. a dutch fertility doctor is found to have used his own sperm to father 49 children without his patients‘ consent. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that authorities in the uk announced proposals now on bbc news, for a new regulator for online and social media platforms, it's time for click. to protect citizens from so—called online harms. this week, the pope takes on robots. wikileaks founderjulian assange was arrested by police in london artificial intelligence after ecuador withdrew his asylum. takes up fishing. and facebook announced changes and gaming takes on robbie williams. to how its algorithm handles the profiles of people who have died, to prevent friends he sings. and relatives getting notifications about birthdays or events. a commercial drone delivery service has been cleared for take—off in the australian capital city of canberra following an 18 month trial. operated by alphabet subsidiary wing, the drones will deliver food and drink and over—the—counter chemist products. the drones are only allowed to fly in daylight and must stay 16 feet welcome to l'atelier above humans while flying. des lumieres in paris, supermarket giant walmart
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is to deploy autonomous machines the mesmerising new digital across thousands of its stores in the us. featuring self operating floor exhibition by culturespaces — cleaners, shelf scanners, a french museum foundation that unloaders and pick—up terrace, specialises in immersive art the devices would join displays. the existing machines already in use at selected stores. the company says they will free up this former i9th—century foundry has been transformed to bring to life staff for other tasks. the paintings of vincent van gogh. and, finally, astronomers have finally taken the first ever it also gives visitors the chance picture of a black hole. to appreciate the influence that photographed by a network of eight japanese prints had on his work. telescopes across the world, the immersive audiovisual measuring 14 billion kilometres across, the black hole, experience retraces the dutch dubbed an absolute monster, is 500 master's life and work. million trillion kilometres away. using state—of—the—art visuals start saving those air miles. and 140 laser video projectors, the artist's works are transformed, the home makeover show itself seems becoming stunning, moving images that are projected to be getting a makeover. onto ten metre high walls. this digital reimagining truly adds a new depth to van gogh‘s work. you really feel like you're actually i'm behind—the—scenes at a new bbc transported into his paintings. quite an emotional show that's using virtual reality experience, i have to say. to reshape couples homes before
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actually doing it in real life. those behind the exhibition are also hoping that it will help to make completely not what i expected. fine art more accessible, drawing in younger audiences who can and it can get emotional. interact with the projections and appreciate the masterpieces in a new and more modern way. and that's not the only challenge the producers first, another surprising conference of your home made perfect are up against. where an old institution we are trying to make a really emotional, you know, meets new technology. transformative tv show but this time courtesy and when people have of the vatican. got a headset on, it's very hard to get that, jen copestake has been investigating how the catholic church to show that. is influencing robotic research. but what you do do is you get great sound. you get oohs and ahhs and reactions from people. robots. these days they seem to be everywhere. the show pits two architects from badminton courts... against each other giving to restaurants... the homeowners the chance to really see their visions come to life before deciding to monasteries. and factories. which option to go with. yeah, initially we didn't agree they augmenting our lives on what we wanted out of the house. in various helpful ways. whereas i wanted to keep the garden and get rid of the garage, with many countries facing and what has actually happened an ageing population, is the opposite, i think.
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issues such as elderly care and access to doctors yes, switched. are being taken on by roboticists. it's fascinating, not just seeing the reaction to their home but also the reaction to testing vr in policing and even warfare, for the first time. autonomist systems are ruled out oh wow. for police cars and drones. 0h hello. it was so clever. and with superfast 56 data yeah. the way they've made it so, networks around the corner, like real with the dimensions. the capabilities of these machines just like being there, wasn't it? could increase exponentially. it was really weird not being able to walk around because that's your initial thought this has led many to question process, because you're the responsibilities that come in the house, you want to see with these capabilities what's round the corner, and the questions are coming not but you cannot do that. just from silicon valley, with the goggles on. but from the heart of one but once you get used to it, it's amazing. of the world's major religions. it's unreal, i thought. it's a weird experience. at the vatican, the catholic church has brought together scientists despite everything else involved and ethicists to discuss these issues and pope francis in this tv show, all the emotions, has written a letter, the fact that people are seeing the human community, the real homes, this is actually which emphasises the urgent need a really great, clear, to study the relationship between immersive vr experience. humans and emerging technologies. this feels so real, i almost feel the pope presented the letter like i can reach for that tap. to the pontifical academy for life to open the special conference the 360 element is absolutely fantastic. called robot ethics, humans, but the one issue it has is, machines and health. i can't actually walk anywhere.
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so if i go forward, not actually going forward in the virtual world, i'm just likely to walk into something. opting for the samsung gear did mean some physical limitations compared to other vr systems. we did our original tests in inocculus. we found that actually to animate something that people could see and walk round, one of the star attractions you actually couldn't get here is japanese professor the graphics to a very high quality hiroshi ishiguro, the creator unless you had a supercomputer of extremely lifelike robots. attached with a cable. i am gemini, i am a copy of professor ishiguro. so what we realised is that actually we should be thinking of the end he has used them before to speak user and the vast number of people in his place at conferences but this time he has come in person. who are going to be watching this, professor ishiguro presented his hopefully will be people watching vision of the future of humanity, it on screen, on tv. so we were looking for a way to use those final graphics as the graphics that our contributors see. so the best way be found to do that was to create 360 wraparound the effects that could be pretty high quality and play on a samsung and just in a headset. this actually give you an idea
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of what open plan could feel like. but revamping your home with the help of a spotter vr isn't exclusive to tv show. you can do it with one of these and one of these. planner 5d the is just one example of an app that can do that and with the android version, you can use the headset. it's pretty simple to set off a new project, but it is quite time consuming putting in all the details. so first of all you need your room measurements, you can even choose what the floor is going to look like, what the wall looks like to make it as true to life as possible. you can then move things around with exactly the right dimensions to see where they will and won't work. it's pretty impressive, that does look like a real room and the detail is absolutely amazing. so i can see the value in vr, but it's just a matter of how people will feel about putting the work in to make sure the results do it justice.
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that was lara. now, video games have evolved from arcade—based entertainment into a creative art form is culturally vital and powerful as movies and music. hammering that point home, the london games festival plays host to a wide variety of game related activities across the city. marc cieslak has been checking out some of the different events that make up the celebration of all things gaming. the london games festival is a place where smaller, indie games are given an opportunity to shine alongside more well—known triple—a blockbuster titles. taking off the festival, this event is packed with indie games generating the same amount of buzz as their big budget brother. this actium soccer is a mash up between football and a third person shooter. now you might think that those two
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things go together like fish fingers and custard but after playing forjust a very short amount of time, you realise that flying robots punting the ball down the pitch would very probably improve the game in the premier league. get that ball away from my goal. back of the net! developed by dundee—based studio earthbound games, the team behind actium have plans to turn this huge fusion of football and flying machines into a spectator sport. it's not something that'sjust designed to be played, it's something that's designed to be watched as well. the streaming aspect of the game has become huge over the past five years and so we believe that the next stage of spectators is going to be about interactive spectators. interacting in the way that they would if they were at a live football match, for example. this collection of seemingly unrelated objects is a preview of the weirdness that's about to come when playing vr
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game a ton of feathers. there is still something i don't understand. what's that? ok, you've constructed a set here which uses some crt monitors, what looks like an old tape deck and a cuddly toy. i mean first of all ijust wanted to create a sort of spectacle with people watching. he was the last human that we had. also i wanted to leave people with something to take away from the whole experience. so the actual soundtrack of the game is processed through a tape deck with an audio cassette tape as the output. so players can take home a little cassette tape of their custom journey throughout the game. 0k. time to try it out. the game has a story of sorts, a mystery about a serial killer. you all are right in front of me as clean as day. it quickly becomes less then a mystery to solve... bye! and more of pixelated psychedelic journey, exploring what a game actually is. remove the plug behind you.
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it's like an 8—bit nightmare thought up by david lynch with help from max headroom. as a parting gift, my audio recording of the whole experience. now all i have to do is find a tape deck. across town here at somerset house, the no play this exhibition explores the artistic potential of games technology. anybody who knows anything about games knows that this is in the nintendo entertainment system, so far so mid 80s gaming platform. but a closer look at the controllers reveals that they've had all of their buttons removed except for one. so, how are we supposed to play games in this with just one button? well, with a little help from up to eight friends. each controller has just one button which performs a different function. one left, one right, jump and so on.
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in order to play game, the group of people must work together. yeah. about ten years ago, in 2006, there was a forum post in the accessibility forums and the moderators there groups from different accessibility groups were wondering what would the history of video games look like if they were one switch? if they were accessible to folks with limited manual dexterity. and the first post int that forum thread was a nintendo entertainment system controller with one a button. and so i wanted to make that, i wanted to make that image real and see what happens to play. suddenly tetris is notjust about getting blocks together the right way. it is about deciding, as if by committee, where to put those blocks. so everything becomes multiplayer. he sings. you might not expect to find karaoke at a games event but this raises the art to new levels.
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the machine plays popular tunes but randomly generates new lyrics which, while completely different to the original, should still more or less rhyme. another demonstration that we should always challenge our preconceptions of what we consider to be a video game, even if that challenge isn't easy listening. # i'm loving angels in bed #. ok, so throughout this programme we have been looking at how the traditional has been given a technological reboot, and to finish things off, well, it does not get more traditional than sushi in japan. but even there, stephen beckett has been finding out how ai has been lending handing a helping hand to the raw ingredients. ie, fish. japan's diet is often hailed as one of the reasons behind their world leading life expectancy.
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but with people living longer, and birthsjust not keepng up, finding enough people to filljobs is a growing crisis in the country. we are on to see kindai university's fish farm. about 12 million red sea bream are born and raised every year and they eventually make their way onto japanese dinner plates. fishing is an ancient industry here in japan. but around here they are starting to do things a little differently. you can start to see a few of the sea bream appearing now. these fish live in these ponds for about two years and then they're sold to other fish farms around japan where they raise them even more and then they are eventually sold to restaurants. what do you reckon, have they had enough? it might seem serene here, but once a year things get a bit busier. during sorting season, all the fish have to be taken out of the ponds to be sold. it is a manual process that
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requires teams of workers, workers that are becoming increasingly hard to find. in just a few days, they need to check millions of fish and to do that it is crucial that the production line runs at peak performance. until now, that's been the responsibility of this guy. it's hisjob to regulate the flow by using this dial. too slow and they won't get through all the fish. too fast and the line could get overwhelmed. it might sound simple but here only the most skilled workers are given the controls. well, the most skilled workers are now a new automation ai. the ai worker has been trained to recognise and count the fish as they come through the pump, that means it can regulate the flow just like its human predecessor. translation: from dawn to dusk, somebody had to adjust the amount of fish supplied so we had to place a highly skilled worker in the position all day. but this system allows us to relocate the person to do other work. the team claimed that the ai worker is at least 90% as accurate as a human expert,
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so while it is not perfect, it is still good enough to get hired. behind the scenes, the software is running on microsoft's cloud computing platform. it is one of many companies like google and amazon cashing in on the idea of an ai future. what is really interesting here is just how easy ai is to use now. so ai is available in the cloud and it is kind of plug and play. so it is the democratisation of ai. we are seeing, as you might expect, ai being used in the manufacturing industry, in the retail industry, but also these primary industries like aquaculture and agriculture. the explosion of cloud services means even the remotest parts of the world can access computing power like this. elsewhere on the farm they are exploring other ways to automate this traditionally hands—on process. internet connected sensors are already monitoring the environment and the tanks here. the is hope is that in the future this data could be used to better care for the fish. kindai university are getting
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benefit of removing some mundane tasks as the speed of the conveyor belt but the data that is collected can be used for all kinds of things, it can analyse the environment, it can analyse the growth of the fish and so it can lead to a better quality, higher yield and so on. right now only onejob here has been handed over to the machines. next though they are looking as to whether the more complex of checking and sorting the fish can be automated too, and doing that means evenjobs can be replaced. injapan, that is essential to solve the looming worker shortage. it feels like ai is getting pretty good now at solving problems like these and it is probablyjust a matter of time before we're seeing it all over the place in similar situations. but we are still yet to see any of those massive industry shifting ideas become a reality. it feels like this isjust the beginning. brilliant. that was stephen beckett injapan. and that's it from l'atelier des lumieres, here in paris. don't forget that we live
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all across social media, on facebook, instagram, youtube and twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. the weather has been mostly behaving itself today apart from a few showers in east and east anglia. the skies are quite deceiving, the blue skies are quite deceiving, the blue skies and fluffy clouds, but it is nippy out there and it'll be a chilly evening and cold morning tomorrow. this evening, temperatures will be around six to eight celsius, around six or seven in the evening. there is some rainjust
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around six or seven in the evening. there is some rain just at the west of our neighbourhood trying to nudge into northern ireland, may be the tip of cornwall, probably won't. the vast majority of the country tonight will have clear skies, and here is the extent of the frost. you can see in major towns and cities will be around freezing and below. in tropical plymouth, six celsius. tomorrow, with a front will stall to the west of us, maybe thicker cloud and a few spots of rain in western areas later in the day but tomorrow overruled the weather is looking bright but nippy, the highs are roundabout seven to 10 degrees.
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