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w. just made for mines. kids just an artificial intelligence is a bit like a human who is inside something else than a. business it's not as smart as you but it could be as smart as you in the future. i believe that will become robots at some point you. are sufficient intelligence is change in our lives. but more can really do. what

will change and what will remain science fiction. to answer these questions we embarked on a journey to meet the some interests working on our future. and southern germany home to the headquarters of kuka the world's leading manufacturer of industrial robots. renovation of is head of research here and is considered to be one of the world's leading experts in this field. he and his team are working on a new generation of robots that learn independently my children the task to recognize and sort building blocks. as to what is this robotic system taught itself how to grab life in other words

there was no human programming the robot with us that's what we tried by himself. as ever he tried by himself like a child when he 1st started grabbing he wasn't successful except for in one to 2 percent of cases but he observed himself often by observing himself in the robot identified when an image successfully matched a particular grasping motion and when it didn't follow christ punished. he's applied what he learned and now he can successfully grab these objects over 90 percent of the time shopping it's the i didn't program him and yet he's still learning the task by himself seeing that really motivates you to someone says in. the what if the rulebook sees a new object such as plan as. this engine is punishment it's a nice example every child would just say ok grab and move those pliers over no problem. but he's still failing. as i thought well he's failing because he doesn't

know what kind of inertial force this object has to be able to grab it properly. so 50 pounds of could almost utopian but you can see how he's already trying out different methods and in time he may get the hang of it i should add that he isn't trained after every attempt he collects around a 1000 data and then the neural net is retrained so it's possible that if we let him try a 1000 times now he would at least be able to grab them reliably. intelligent robots that learn by themself they can recognize parts. and they can independently adapt to their environment with the help of ai. but we're only in the early development stages. that their mind thinks i have a favorite example and that's chess it is these days there are computers or ai they can be chest champions with my stuff and that's what we don't have a robot that can reach into a bookcase take out

a chest open the box take out the pieces one by one set them up and start playing with. a 6 year old can do that but no existing robot can become so for the moment whenever i need physical intelligence we're still doomed to fail and i think that will be the case for a few more years ago i don't know some sites on forth had anything to spit on the. so. yet machines are getting better and more intense. agent this video was produced using special effects. but this robot has learned how to play table tennis we just don't buy the searches in tubingen and shows how much is only possible in the real world none of it's the hour long will it take before robots are better than us in some areas or what has enjoyed a few guy robots already are better than us in many areas particularly those requiring nondairy at repetition a great deal of force or a high degree of precision and it helps or a task current robots are not as good at as we are are those involving sensors

there's no point in eyeing that and i think it will be another 10 or 20 years before we have robots that can hold a candle to humans and some areas. with the size that. we humans use all of our senses and can do more than smart robots but the robots are beginning to learn. official intelligence also plays an important role in a story that began in january 1902 in mt washington new hampshire. hugh hat was 17 years old at the time together with his friend jeff katz a shield went to the mountain. but they were caught off guard by a change in the weather a blizzard raged for 3 whole days the missing boys were only found after 4 days both were alive but they had severe frostbite. and the doctors decided to amputate

his legs just below the knee. there's the 2 years later hugh has ai legs which he developed himself and spoke on turning disability into opportunity at the ted conference in 2014. done sir edwin haslet davis lost a leg in 2013. in the terrorist attack at the boston marathon thanks to the smart prosthesis by hugh had she can dance again. some needed. some. serious. 100000

. boston home to the massachusetts institute of technology. but you have to talk about artificial intelligence and the human body is the pioneer in the field of intelligent prosthetics a single person who is both developer and. there are dozens of prototypes in his lab. so this is you have a motor and you have there's a motor this is a synthetic subject or join for inversion evolution. so we've interacted and spent millions of dollars to the to arrive at this optimal architecture he began developing prostheses after his lower limbs had been amputated his replacement legs became increasingly complex now they are ai limbs with countless census mosts and computers. i quickly realize that i

had an opportunity that from my knees dell i was there was a blank slate and i could create anything in that space that i could conceive of a legend so i start as a young man i serve the legend. what what that blank space may look like what may fill that space. disability depends on perspective. hugh has developed an awful nonsense. with this special prophecy she says he's developed himself he can once again perceive his greatest passion climbing. so there is a computer in here there's 3 actually 3 and they're each the size of your thumbnail

. it's a very small microprocessors and there's a muscle tendon like motor system. so the computer runs out rhythms and receives sensory information so the device is measuring its position speed at celebrations temperatures and whatnot all that information goes into the computer that computer runs our thems and then decides on the actions of the muscle tendon like motor system in this all happens very fast so as i'm walking we're going up and down hills and steps it's constantly responding to my by mechanical means it is so with that even now a day through to my mom plan b. or you still go climbing absolutely and i run and he cannot you cannot with a straight face say that i'm disabled. i trail ride and i play tennis and i do whatever i want to do physically now if you remove the technology from my

body i'm severely disabled and crippled but with the technology in this sophisticated human machine interaction and freed from the shackles of disability. are intelligent prostheses only the beginning. of technology increasingly march with the human. 'd intelligent humanoids have already been depicted in feature films such as x. meccano you shouldn't trust nathan you shouldn't trust anything he says. closing the loop between the synthetic robotic limb and the human brain the human nervous system and what that means is the person can think. and is sending commands them through the nerves and then we we measure those commands and they control synthetic motors on the bicycle and and then we're also closing the loops of sensors in the bonnet input information into the nervous system so the person

can feel the bannock limb moving its position its sensations as if it's part of their body this is almost philosophical because you have. the body and you have the machine and you sort of start the merger injuring them together and if we're gaining evidence that when a human being can feel a synthetic body part when they when they can touch it and it feels like normal touch when they move it and it feels like a normal joint movement that synthetic object becomes part of their their body their identity their self well what's cool about having a significant part of your body that's design a bone synthetic is you can upgrade. so given that a little 80 professor i love graded every week i could do software and hardware that interest so i go by growing older right no secret and you can get new year every letter synthetic although my body is improving and that my biological body is

degenerating which is very peculiar. hugh half artificial intelligence is a blessing. by the time our interview was over a snowstorm was raging in boston an interesting coincidence as this was also how his transition began thanks to ai body and machine us slowly emerging. artificial intelligence is also increasingly determining our communication it's them behind every set hidden from view in social networks intelligent algorithms control what we see and thus influence what we read and what we don't but there's a problem fake news. capturing and reselling our attention and our digital data has become big business information technology firms are among the most valuable

companies in the world. facebook you tube and twitter have changed the media worldwide but exactly what role do their intelligent algorithms play in the spread of fake news. in 2018 a team of scientists from boston analyzed the spread of fake news. the study was led by professor scene and are all. it was the largest worldwide study that had ever been conducted on the spread of fake news on social networks. while information is abundant attention is. so there's way more information than we can process and so these platforms help us by curating the information and as you said prioritizing what comes 1st in our news feed what comes 2nd what comes 3rd and

they have a machine an algorithm based on machine learning that is deciding what gets shown 1st 2nd 3rd or in fact what gets shown at all some things are not shown it's not the case that every piece of information is shown to everyone but which criteria do facebook and twitter used to program the algorithms these terms of the people writing those algorithms are based on the incentives of the platforms the companies that they work for those companies are based on an economic model of engagement the more people are engaged the more opportunities you have to show ads and so you have more. inventory for advertisements but the 2nd important reason is that the more people are engaged the more you learn about who they are and what they like and the more sophisticated the targeting is in terms of advertising so engagement is a key factor for the for the economic success the social media industrial

complex. daily internet usage is increasing. in $2810.00 the average was over 3 hours a day. it was just on the $6.00 a day things that are exciting novel surprising things that are potentially shocking. are more likely to be engaging clicked on read viewed share like and therefore there are elements of the models that the term in the news feed that favoring gauge with. the following case from japan shows what fake news and social networks can lead to. video showing young women who allegedly became ill after a cervical cancer vaccine were posted online. at the same time unverified scientific studies were circulated on social networks. both videos and studies were

picked up by television this led to the vaccination rates against cervical cancer in japan falling from 70 percent to less than one percent. how could it be that false information could turn an industrialised country like japan against a globally recognized vaccination. where we need. the doctor had tried to counteract the anti vaccine hysteria and inform the public online but then she was targeted. i was harshly are tucked into 20 years or social media when i started writing about the safety of the vaccines they even tried to threaten law by sending all those blackmailing messages to my family or.

continued undeterred she analyzed the vaccination opponents facts checked the scientific validity of their experiments and published her results in a book. after all i was just stalled and you know bias on the cricket thing and one day i just decided to shutouts twitter for one for a while but. when i got the control much of splines extralegal mother surprise became a twitter trend. even that didn't change public opinion in japan despite top scientists sharing we close here she eventually lost the battle to fake news the accuse me because my writing is wrong and why writing is being wrongly impacted our society and i'm hiding the truth by the east not if the contritely i'm telling the truth and people feel i'm hiding the truth it's really interesting isn't. the

w.h.o. you see the anti vaccine movement as a global health threat in japan around $3000.00 women will probably die every year from cervical cancer because they choose not to get vaccinated fake news can be fatal the false information is moving through human society in a digital sense like lightning while the truth as essentially you know at the speed of molasses sort of dripping very slowly from person to person to person. the spread of false information shown here in orange and correct information see here in blue. seen are all has studied these patterns on twitter more closely than anyone else. false news traveled further faster deeper and more broadly than the truth in every category of information that we studied sometimes by an order of magnitude difference and this was particularly true of

false political news which was the most viral category of any type of false news that we started shaking news we are fighting the fake as you say fake it is. bush asserted ok shaking his head like to take news has changed the political climate worldwide. it can actually get changed social networks and their intelligent algorithms are increasing division in society they vie for our attention feeding us exactly the information we like what counts as a click rate conscious and the length of stay and not where the content is true or trustworthy. this personalized communication is dividing our society social networks assign each user profile depending on what she or he clicks on reads a watches those belonging to the red group here are many supplied with information

that matches the bread profile thus our filter bubble is gradually formed. everyone lives with the map own network our opinion is echoed by like minded people contradictory information and opinions hardly enter operable for. media should be a mirror of society but the ai algorithms are distorting the opinions we form based off our media consumption. if the media is too important to be left to people who are just out to make money. how well as official intelligence change conflicts what about intelligent autonomous weapons all the military is already testing prototypes like here in california 2 fighter

jets launch a swarm of intelligent drones. thomas flying objects then identify their own target should machines be allowed to take a life or death decisions. we travel to meet one of the most respected ethicists on autonomous weapons in the us . he warns of an uncontrollable development and is committed to worldwide ban on thomas weapons we visited yale professor wendell gallagher that's how smooth. sometimes people do not fully understand what lethal autonomous weapon systems are they tend to think of drones that might have facial recognition software and would pick off a terrorist that it sees in the distance or perhaps a few robotics soldiers on

a battlefield what is sometimes not fully appreciate it is a little autonomy is not a weapon system it is feature sets which can be added to any weapons system and that includes atomic weapons or other high powered munitions and the feature sets would be the ability to pick a target and destroy that target with little or no active human intervention. intelligent image recognition. target recognition these ai techniques are already available. at race has become. that machines do not make life and death decisions humans humans make life and death decisions about him and it's and when he we open the door to machines making those decisions we undermine the basic principle of a responsible human agent lethal

a ton of weapons and self driving cars they are just the tip of an iceberg with something much larger below the surface and that larger thing below the surface is autonomy in general is. town the systems in general economy systems threaten to undermine the foundational principle that there's an agent and that agent can either be a human or it can be a corporation or something else but that there is an agent who is responsible and potentially culpable and liable for its actions or for any actions that are taken. i don't like can't think of anything more stupid than humanity going down a route where we have deluded the principle of responsibility where we dilute it in such a way that nobody can be held responsible anymore if something truly dire takes place. in the past we have been too slow to recognize we're going

down a wrong path we need a worldwide ban on autonomous intelligent weapons. artificial intelligence will revolutionize industry in germany the term industry 4.0 has become a buzz word. counts tools and then tie up production plants are being linked via sensors and equipped with ai but how will determine companies fair and worldwide competition. dr michelle bonner is the head of the bush research center and running and pardon burton burke. 'd 'd artificial intelligence is one of the main focus points here. the industry when it comes to industrial ai the ai that plays a role in products then i think that the technology companies that have decades of

experience in the physical world in real life objects and the corresponding experience in development and production have a competitive advantage when adding in machine learning and artificial intelligence doing that they have an advantage over companies that come purely from the virtual world. so i'm confident i was developed to call and this is also the reason why we're investing so much in this area. and why we're rolling out and applying this expertise across the world. does a competence in front also and on so i'm going to. germany has faith in its decades long technical expertise together with. one player who is fighting to get ahead is china. changing of the god in the case of heavenly peace in the gene. soldiers flacks mao. this is the

old image of the country but modern day china has awakened. digitalisation an artificial intelligence promise a brave new world an entire nation seems intoxicated by its own progress. where does this palpable euphoria about the future stem from. when made home yank she's chinese and work for a german company for several years we asked her what is different in china. culturally speaking we are different and you know it and than in a transition or sinking in we are more open to you know the latest technology and open to what the word. soul. probably you can see from how much we're using the smartphone. and i'd like like just now we buy the coffee

with a smartphone. and we pay for the text deal with a smart phone and sometimes my german call exhaust amish to say that you don't even to have to bring cash with you and i said yeah that's normal life. for because if i always forget my wallet when i'm in germany because here in china i pay for everything with my smartphone so if you go to the market and there's an 80 year old woman selling produce you might think i guess i'll pay with cash but you can't anymore you'll be buying an apple and she'll take out a q.r. code scan it and then you pay for it with your smartphone it's unbelievable there's nothing like that in germany it's crazy it's gone there is concern from the rich on the other to this the ones in for example if i have. dinner with my friends and away or 1st has to you know hand out your phones and we put phones on a table. and then if somebody is picking up the phone by call us all by text message or by we check the message he has to pay for to be here and that's

the punishment so we can feel the advantage of the technology but when you get used to your church you start to reflect what kind of impact to my life what is the good part or was it the best part and then in terms of better part i mean by nature everyone will start to think about how can i get rid of the bad parts but still trying to keep the good part. young china is catching up and the whole nation is hungry for progress. to dismiss speed just think about where china was 40 years ago and now things are going full throttle and that's so he's just a punk all. china has even surpassed the u.s. when it comes to finding patents one example is them about transportation service d.d. active and 400 chinese cities the platform organizes some fashion 1000000 trips a day didn't resort to default each d.d.

vehicle is equipped with a data log. which registers whether the car is stationary or moving or whether there's a traffic jam the data is also used to improve information on traffic flow in big cities and this is what we call this real time traffic information or r t t i wish they did it out to go directly into the r.t.i. which gives you a much more reliable view of whether roads are congested or not than in german cities from its infinite limit of connecting everything with everything else and generating added value from that the chinese are really really good at that will listen to can isn't sure if the srishti school. in fog china is a much younger nations there's a lot of energy and enthusiasm about what's to come there are a lot of investments as there are great education institutions here for example ching who are university in beijing and tongues a university in shanghai a really top level there are really many capable people the talent pool here is

huge so i think there's a good chance that china will be leading you know that comes from that. it's predicted that in 20 to 37 percent of all scientists will be chinese only 1.4 percent will be from germany. among germany is currently facing a lack of science teachers or schools i am generation of innovators is growing up in china they have top level education fresh ideas and they're hungry for success. one example is the d.j. i company from change and it was founded in 2006 by a young engineer and today it's the world's largest manufacturer of civilian terms of. chief development officer martin from the morgue shows us the latest model. the new drone uses intelligent image recognition and can independently pursue its target.

equipped with dozens of sensors and smart positioning it can detect obstacles such as trains or bushes. the tree saves my life. but not as a saw the tree was the limit because the drone says no on it or not and if in this case the drone said i can't fly through it safely so i better stop on the dust as i understand it is very common here in china to combine things facial recognition navigating flying. when if i could yes and in this case only visuals were useless and you don't have a bluetooth transmitter or anything else on you the pilot simply says i want to follow bongo on the display confirms and the drone follows you on the. animation made in china. 'd chinese television proudly reports such successes.

china no longer copies modern day china invents. the ice for the g.i. is truly the 1st global brand with a completely new product range from china before china was primarily known as the world's factory that's changing now and the perception is also changing our company alone employs almost $3000.00 engineers really smart people they're all enthusiastic they're motivated they want to create something new which is this and that's the spirit that prevails in this country that's going to persist the hunger for innovation is what defines modern china soon and to stay for us more than a sheet. and china's economy is booming cities such as change in action do want to have the same economic output as an entire european countries. the country is investing in its young people take the example of regular master

here a team is preparing for the upcoming season. each team has to program and optimize a gaming robot the final is a nationwide event. trick when supervises the competition and shows us the power cooler. and this one is this is that the new the latest one and also we have a it doesn't feel right now. like a euro. as we can say there is a catch all right here is the reference system that is for sensing the ball and it's well used right here it's because they're fashioned yeah that means you hit the hit and a half and if the crease to have one robot loose on the point it was no illusion. this might look like but it's actually a program to support young engineers. and now several other companies are also

involved in the next generation of engineers needs to be good at designing and programming and that's exactly what they're learning here in a playful context. the background is serious engineering or more game is serious and union because you need to be. near rabat not only in that put them together is just the 1st step and then you need to be coding do some coding there's a lot of a show recognition as they say a toll it's a message we're at it and there's not that same hope all medical college students how many universities in their study to our university in the file to and it's all based yeah we have a 117. 170 people all over the botched registers all the information and all of the triage about a 140 and how good are they in their head. ok maybe if we can get hands

on the robots and yes we're. how it works ok we have 2 robots so we will now why. have a look at it again. trying it's just a few key combinations to control the robot go forward back almost. all forwards. i am an old guy you know. you can see a half. and now now you fired me no i fired me but we actually made so i think that if we do that i think is the way it's done right ok because all we have. the final is a major event 20000 people are in the audience another 30000000 watched the contest online engineers and programmers at china's new pump starts.

to. care about this game because the teams form their schools when the ball away from the game instead means a lot of them turning. to students invested thousands of passengers developing their own boats the winner of the 2018 competition was the team from southern china university of technology all of china's celebration of that success. they're also excellent initiatives in germany one example is the so-called indian expo in hanover around 300000 students come here within a single week it's the largest conference in europe. young people are introduced a new tax not a program and design new circuits and they seem to love it. but in contrast to trying out german media hardly take note. germany talks to little about it 6.

since we too can keep up with the global i race if we want to but we really have to step on the gas. children are now growing up with smart phones internet and intelligent toys. but what does that do to children we met scientists a funny a drink there to discuss. following research in boston she's currently working in berlin. the generation after the internet generation our generation. they're growing up surrounded by like alexa. you know distant eyes was not designed for children right this device was designed for households so families make purchases via this device and i think it's very important to recognize when we

talk about kids and when we talk about regulation for smart 2 or ways and regulation of devices that required the other kids to understand who made made these devices and what was the ultimate goal of this device just imagine you in some years you might also have children would you sort of install a vaccine your home it depends what plan for him would look like that where i would live right now not. i next alexa how many seconds are there in a year. and collect calendar year has 31000000 536000 seconds and a leap year has 31622400 seconds. the 3rd is that's not what i wanted to know. unlike the small robot cars much less developed for children. to me trust and intelligence are related because if i think that

a device is smart i tend to trust that more so the younger children weren't so sure how smart these devices were and all their children they thought they're smart because they have a lot of data so basically the children were like 3 and a half or 6 where more skeptical initially of these devices and i soon as kids would go to school they were more like trustworthy just because they saw how much information these devices have. curiosity creativity imagination children are open minded and enjoy trying things out. some devices react as if they were artificial living beings. after they've learned how to program it in training both the young children and all children became more skeptical and trusted the device less so they understood it knows how to answer this type of questions but he doesn't know how to answer this

type of question. do you trust machines of a smart what can you do that they cannot. define a course for increased understanding of artificial intelligence. the goal of my research is to bring this ai literacy both to kids and parents because these are in the home and parents are they're also part of the conversation asking questions and i think it's important for families to understand how it works in order to make a good use of this technology that. some things promote our own creativity other things seem to be superfluous. but michael and there's another important difference between humans and machines. it just kind of can can sleep over at your house and tell you stories to you she talks to you. if you play with

a robot it can only do certain things. which cause more can only play with dice alexa can only answer questions or sing a song and that ball can only roll. i'm the only i can do all those things. and look at them but i can't do that you just have to get a lot of single things from one robot or get other robots 1st this one then that other then the next and with the person you don't have to get a new one you always have the narran they can do everything. maria maria hit the nail on the head. the robot cannot replace a best friend now matter how smart it is a machine cannot substitute a human being. here our journey through the world of artificial intelligence draws to a close there will be major changes but it is not the machines but we humans who

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