a memoir about motor neurone disease and combining his humanity with al. this week, the giant coming to a city near you. a giant leap for disability, and willing rides on giant screens. hay, it is one of my favourite fests. we've been coming to the hay literary festival for quite a few years now, each time meeting amazing people who have written on fascinating topics. every so often someone

has stolen the show and stop our world spinning. can you see it? no, sorry. the town of hay on wye has more book shops than you can throw a thriller at, and the are usually packed with festivalgoers. and, after an enforced year online in 2020, the organisers are taking tentative steps back into town. as are we. welcome to click at hay, 2021. ok, i said tentative steps. anyway today we are going to be talking about al, which of course is very big, artificial insemination. next year, then, i promise! but in the meantime, some of hay 21's events are being streamed from the cinema round the back of richard

booth�*s municipal book shop. later, we will bring you one of the most inspiring stories from the festival. first, i want to tell you a tall tale from the emerald isle, a very tall tale. it's one of the most famous stories ever written. it is actually called travels into several nations of the world, in four parts, by lemuel gulliver, first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships. but you probably know it better as gulliver's travels. well, well, what have we got here? 300 years after the book was written, i'm following in the footsteps of its author, jonathan swift to the place that inspired him to write the novel in the first place. this is belvedere house in county westmeath, bang in the centre of ireland. so, the story goes that jonathan swift was standing

about here looking across the lake where there was actually a place called lilliput, and he thought, "well, those people in the distance are really small," and the rest is history. i said why isn't there a giant gulliver here in belvedere house? paddy dunning is a music manager and proprietor of several museums. he has rubbed shoulders with the likes of u2, rem and dame shirley bassey and now he wants to make some icons of his own. we designed a beautiful statue in wood, larch wood, and build a viewing tower from the house, and inside would be a heritage centre and museum dedicated, not just to jonathan swift but to the writers of the county. so that was where it started. it didn't end there, though, did it? so we came up with what is the concept now, which is a statue that has a matrix skin, and now we have just launched the giant project, which is the search for 21 sites, to build 21 giants around the world.

people of the world, welcome to the giant. the giant will be an interactive visitor attraction centre around a huge, human—shaped moving structure with cafes, restaurants, shops and a museum to boot, literally at the boot. the project is currently being masterminded at paddy's residential recording studio, grouse lodge, and it's caught the attention of eric fraad, opera director, music producer movie—maker and all round creative, he wanted to make sure that the statue could represent absolutely anybody. one of the possibilities was that it is a gigantic statue, and it is androgynous and therefore, with the leds, not projected, but revealed upon it, it makes it much more spectacular and transformable rather than a static image. what kind of shape did

you end up going for? essentially it is an amalgamation of the facial shape ofa man, ora male child. the human eye, it cheats. the human eye fills in so much that's not there. if you give it a hint, it will fill in an awful lot and that is part of what is. is it big enough, do you think? bear in mind this is only a small scale concept model. it will be covered with millions and millions of pixels of addressable leds. that is all fed to controllers, and the more control you have over the leds, the greater spectral variations you can have with colour, with intensity. we managed to get this big,

massive movement up to the sky, the winning poles, so that's a big, massive movement. these are 60—80 foot long, and set up with great tones. if the giant is on the ground on top of the museum, - you would need an acre. interestingly, somebody. in new york has been on, and they can do it on airspace, land that is really interesting. i what does that mean? airspace means that they would put it on top - of an existing building. because of covid a lot - of the cities are looking at, how are they going to get tourism back? - how are they going to get people back| into their countries? what is the draw going to be? we do think that the technology that we've got will be the future of statues, and there won't be just an image of one person. we think that images will change as society changes.

in fact, the image that paddy thinks will draw most attention is the image of you. part of the visitor experience will involve getting your whole body scanned and then thrown up onto the statue for all to see. the world's most awe—inspiring selfie. you can look up and you will become the giant. you are calling this the world's biggest selfie. it is the world's biggest selfie! there is nothing like it on the planet. it's so big, it's going to be gigantic. poor foolish little people. look what you've done. with goliath ambitions, the giant company hopes to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and plans to roll out the first five by the end of this year. one thing is for sure. the scope of that task will be enormous. when i first heard about this project, i thought it was nuts.

but then i got here and i saw the scale model of the head, and i started to understand how it could work, and the technology needed to bring this to life is proven. it is just coloured leds. so maybe the main question is whether people will want it, but we are living in the century of the selfie, so who knows? i have a feeling they will. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that huawei wants this self developed operating system harmony os in an attempt to challenge google�*s dominance in smartphone software. bill gates announced a push for $1 billion to accelerate green tech and ebay updated its terms of service meaning that sellers can no longer use paypal. and a cyber attack hit the world's largest meat supplier. computer networks at gbs were hacked, temporarily shutting down operations in australia, canada and the us. the ransomware attack could lead to shortages of meat or raise prices for consumers.

adrian has found itself crashing into the lava flow of a volcano. it happened in the south—west of iceland were drone by the gerry adams tried capturing the volcano which has been erupting since march. and finally i'm not at all creepy robot which copies you. scientist at columbia university in new york used deep learning to teach the robot, a there, to mimic the expressions are people around it, it can express anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise and the aim of the technology is to build trust between humans and robotic workers and caregivers in real—world applications such as hospitals, schools and homes. of course, the machines are not softening us

up before they become our robotic overlords! the hay festival is steeped in tradition. it is a place where people come to exchange their screens for good old —fashioned books. but, the pandemic has forced even the most kin —— conventional to adapt, and this appearance has proved no gimmick. i am the transitioning cyborg. this is peter scott morgan who has motor neurone disease, but he's also a doctor of robotics and he calls himself the world's first human cyborg. peter, who was diagnosed with als in 2015 decided to use technology to overcome the extreme difficulty is that he knew that he would face. he said that he chose to thrive rather than die or stop there have been two sides to his transformation, the physical and the virtual and in a minute, stephen fry will talk to one side

about the other. first, nick has been looking at how peter 2.0 has been realised. today i'm in the scottish capital, edinburgh, a city with a rich history of storytelling, where novel ideas come to life and the art of this course has been mastered. i'm here to meet engineers putting personality into synthetic hearts. voice is part of what we are, part of our soul, the way we communicate, betrays where from, emotions, motives, everything. doctor matthew elliott and his team have been banking peter's voice so that he can continue to talk when it is gone. he had to have his vocal track removed, so before that happens we recorded him extensively and we were able to recreate his voice in a speech synthesis system so that he can now type in text and it will speak

exactly the way that he spoke. text—to—speech technology has been around for a while. all remember microsoft sam, right? peter provided far more than the average voice sample recording. 15 hours�* worth of material. in order to make a voice you take the audio and you use a system to learn how the sounds and the voice relate to the words that are being spoken. once you have that model built you can put a new set of words in and it will produce a new output with that voice. to convey sentiment for specific scenarios, peter captured himself speaking in four different styles. the tone of voice is very important. is very important! tone of voice is very... important. he also tirelessly recorded

3000 stock phrases, which he can quickly drop into conversation. a little knowledge may be a dangerous thing but it is not half as bad as a lot of ignorance. write 0k. doesn't want an automatic voice that talks were him, he wants an automatic voice that he can control. the whole idea of human sensitive ai is work as a partnership and peter has got a great phrase. he describes it as a jazz combo. it is the idea of two systems working together to produce something which is greater than the sum of their parts. and create they have, they have taught peter 2.0 how to sing. # and you will be in a world of your imagination! - this is brilliant. how did you manage that, then? again, it is about communication, notjust about the words you say.

they have taken things even further by combining his synthetic voice with a virtual avatar, which is a work in progress. it is amazing what technology can do these days. so, where does the ai start, and peter stop? there is a path of least resistance. if the ai says stop in a certain way it is easy to say let's just do that, then, but then how do you get the balance right? the real key is for the al to be personalised for peter, rather thanjust being a default system. you are watching peter at hay festival. that was nick, so what can peter 2.0 de? that is what stephen fry asked at this year's hay festival, and this was the answer. and if one day i not sounding like a classic american

newscaster it is because i can, and it seemed like an interesting idea to try. and it is still very me. here are some highlights from peter's session at the festival. stephen, it is absolutely wonderful to be talking with you. thanks so much for inviting me. it is going to be fun. i think it is, it's goingj to be and fascinating. first things first, _ you have described yourself as a transitioning cyborg. how do you define a cyborg? cyborg is a fancy word for part human, part machine. in my case, what has never been done before is that the most important machine parts of me will be ai, not mechanics, and that all potentially gets a bit weighed. not least because i am planning

to use more and more ai, to look at everything from speaking to controlling things to moving about. i think that it is fair to say. that we could describe your journey to becoming the world's ifirst ever cyborg, real cyborg, i outside science fiction, - begins with, how can i put it, a wonky foot. my very first symptom was as you so accurately categorised, and wonky foot, but it then took a year to get a diagnosis. there is no test for mnd, there is no nausea, no pain, and usually, your brain stays as sharp as ever, and the terminal bit turns out to be negotiable. with that said, it is been dubbed the world's cruellest disease which inevitably suck the joy out of life, but i found that the key to imagine total paralysis is to imagine that you're

in a luxury spa hotel, and the way to insist that you put your feet up and do it with a muscle, it is ruined. at one point you write . about the fork in the road which we try to get at howl humanity, notjust for you, but the word human involves alongside ai, and it it has i done for you as a livingj embodiment of ai, this is something you feel passionately about. l way back in the early 805, i was preparing my dissertation for what turned out to be the first robotics phd in the uk. based on their side against the advice of both my professor and my publisher, i ended my first robotics textbook with these words — if the path of enhanced human is followed, then it will be possible for mankind and robots

to remain on the same evolutionary branch rather than humanity watch the robot split away. in this way, mankind will one day be able to replace its all to vulnerable bodies with more permanent mechanisms and use of the supercomputer as intelligence amplifiers. that was 1984. ever since, i've advocated for making ai our partner rather than rival. can you make any predictions as to how our daily lives - might actually play out, how they might look? l especially for those with disabilities... especially for those with disabilities - or extreme old age. we are at the early dawn of escaping the fear of becoming powerless and trapped in our body. some people are pessimistic about al and humanity, but i have to say, from my perspective, from everything

i know, i feel incredibly excited about our future. i understand that you have a world first that you havel chosen to reveal here and now, to me, and to our audience. . hello, i am peter 2.0. welcome to the future. now, if there is one thing i know about lj rich is that she loves her thrills. here she is on a vr roller—coaster from a few years ago so when he found out that legoland had a new flying theatre ride, well, there was one person we could send it to find out how it works. like many of us i often dream doll flying as a child. i think that is why i love thrill rides and theme parks. such the harness, forget your

daily worries and simply escape into the sky for a few beautiful minutes. this is the newly opened flight of the sky line at legoland, the world's first flying theatre ride and i'm lucky enough to be in before it opens to the public —— the uk's first. the only person in one of seven gondola spread across three floors. the ultimate in social distancing. it is a wonderful, complex mix of creativity and technology. behind the scenes, the maintenance team kindly put the ride into manual. when the ride starts the gondola rotates into a 20 metre high screen. here is a close—up of the motorised mechanics and action,

which are surprisingly quiet. there are three for each access allowing for a 30 degrees swing and 23 degrees pitch, and degrees of left to right yaw, and during dried, fragrant mist is sprayed on board canisters so that we can smell sea air baby lava dragon burps. it is clear and watch the video, lighting and music add to the atmosphere. the site, the sound, smell, the movement, to be as overwhelming as it is, and to know how the technology works, but even knowing how it works, it works on my body, physically, in a way that is quite astounding. inside the control room, the ride operator monitors the gondola's precise movements, and fear —— the air is one of those responsible for working out how exactly this moving and when. 0n the computer, first, we would understand where those peaks and drops are, and we would programme that in, and we would essentially go

for a ride, and we would film that ride and also speak whilst we were riding it, and we had a big digital metre on the ride, so that we could say, at two minutes ten, we need to bring this movement back, or we need to exaggerate that big drop, at three minutes then, we are going to bring that forward. the video creators also need to have intimate knowledge of how the ride moves. one of the things that we start with is the ride envelope, - three degrees forward and back, pitch and roll, stuff _ like that, so all of those can| be a mechanical engineering things that are built - into the way that we work with our camera, even though the ride envelope, you can . trick the brain 80 why, - because even though the seat only moves a little bit down, . if we then continue the camera further down, then slow down the way that the seat moves i down and speed up the camera, you have the sense that you're i going much faster than you may actually be, or you may be - going at a steeper rate - of descent than you actually are, so it is understanding l

mechanical engineering side of it and then kind of howl we actually trick the brain. outside, the sculptures hold 1.76 million lego bricks, they are hybrid lego animals that need when you access them through the app, and augmented reality contactless safari, and post covid the part�*s director is optimistic that most of us will eventually return. the last year has been challenging with a pandemic. we've had measures in place such a social distancing, so we have had to reduce the number of people coming into the park in the first place. we collaborate with competitors on something like this. it is important that we as an industry can get guests through the door again for the longer term recovery. just time for one more view.

that was lj rich having the time of her life. we have enjoyed being back in hay and hopefully next year we will be back for the full shebang, don't forget, you can get us on facebook, instagram and twitter, @bbcclick, thank you for watching and we will see you soon. hello. i hope you are doing well. i think most of us will see some sunny spells today but what i can't promise is wall—to—wall blue sky for everyone. it should be dry for most of us but we do have some detail to pin on that. here is the big picture. high pressure is building to the south. we have some weak weather fronts pushing into northern ireland, western parts of scotland and down

towards the south—west, as well. they will not only bring thicker cloud but also some patchy rain, the risk of some showers across western fringes. east of that is looking better. it was a pretty miserable day yesterday across south—eastern parts of england and some mist and fog will clear through the day. you can see here the weak weather front, south—west of england, through western parts of wales towards the north—west, northern ireland. i think western parts of scotland as well. it curves around towards northern parts of scotland introducing the cloud, some showers with the odd rumble of thunder possible as well. uv levels today are moderate or high for most of us. as we move through this evening, the weather front is moving towards the east, taking the cloud with it and some showers as well. it could turn quite misty and murky. 0ur temperatures tonight are down between nine and 13 degrees. looking up tomorrow, it will be a cloudy start for many of us but western parts will see a bit more of brightness once this weather front clears the south—west. really, we're flipping things tomorrow because you can

see where the weather front is perched as we head through the afternoon. tomorrow's top temperatures reaching about 20 or 21 celsius. as we look at tomorrow and monday, we have another weather front that wants to push in from the west. but high pressure also wants to try and build. you can see this waving weather front here. it will bring some showers and some cloud. the breeze will tend to strengthen along that weather fronts pushing into northern ireland eventually. but sunny spells on offer and top temperatures on monday reaching about 20, 21 degrees. as we look towards the rest of the coming week, temperatures will want to rise a bit. we will see some showers as well. often quite cloudy but there are

some sunny spells in the forecast, so fingers crossed that most of us will see that. see you soon.

good afternoon. in the last hour, the chancellor rishi sunak has announced what he called "a historic agreement" to reform the global tax system. the deal struck by the g7 group of leading economies includes a global minimum corporation tax of at least 15%. it aims to ensure multinational companies, including the tech giants, will pay what mr sunak described as "the right tax in the right places". our business correspondent katy austin reports.

how much tax should multinational companies, particularly tech giants, pay, and where should they pay it?