when a train. starts december 25th. was. how much do you like your jaw and what are the computer could do the work for you and learn as it goes along so that it improves while on the job what impact will that have on your working and your private life artificial intelligence opportunity or threat that's our topic this week on bad i'm chris colfer welcome to ai systems

are designed to make our lives easier they adapt to our personal habits to help improve our output at work but there's another area that developers and entrepreneurs have discovered where they are seeing huge financial potential death and how to ensure that the dead live on. call me. right let's hear. it i miss you too. very much see how i'll sign off now ok ok. ok. when i should die. 3 years ago. a man's deceased mother is brought back to life thanks to a computer simulation created by a young startup company its founders now want to sell their revolutionary chat bot

to a company that generates holograms of individuals essentially digital clones the 2 technologies combined promise to create a $1000000000.00 business. the german t.v. movie x. it is set in the year 2047 but although it's science fiction it contains elements that are already a reality today. tech firms have been experimenting for decades with artificial intelligence building neuronal networks in order to teach machines how to learn act and react their business ideas focus on making people's lives easier although companies are well aware of the financial potential and death as well. as societies change so do their rituals including how we relate to death a growing number of people want more than just the option of visiting the deceased

at their final resting place. how tech companies are making the most of that change is the subject of a book by 2 german film a. there's. a daughter caught in the guitar an entire market is opening up in the digital sector that's tackling these questions. can i get the state says perhaps there are new options and perhaps it makes sense for people to leave behind something so their loved ones can stay in contact with them. james blunt host is the founder of a company called hereafter when his father was diagnosed with cancer he fed a chimp bond with text and audio messages from his father as well as interviews with him the resulting down bond learned how to communicate like his father. who was then turned the idea into a business model after paying for

a subscription people can now send in record chats and phone videos of their loved ones the company then generates a custom chant banner that the voice of the deceased. family. are you facing any big challenges in your life right now yeah sometimes you just need a little perspective. sure. meanwhile vine studios in south korea is taking things a step further essentially promising a virtual resurrection its website features a mother being reunited with a digital avatar of a deceased 7 year old girl 10. with the help of virtual reality gloves and goggles she was even able to have a virtual birthday party with her daughter. how

much with those in mourning be prepared to pay for a priceless moment like this and how would it affect them emotionally. addressing this point of guns going to what happens with these customers and are they getting counseling often by family members maybe traumatized by experiencing a virtual clone of the dead person mission i think because they have trouble differentiating between reality and virtuality says you know what psychologists refer to the possibility of a pathological morning where patients get caught in a loop of grieving and i can no longer escape the pain or. give us advice on how best to act out in a sense this is a kind of open heart experiment that's not to that extreme which is obviously extremely questionable and dangerous so all parties involved should be asking themselves whether they are aware of the responsibility that they will have to bear and. but it probably has to be taken on

a case by case basis and we shouldn't automatically condemn the transfer of our culture of mourning to the digital world westcott and what time. and effective use of artificial intelligence for such applications requires personal data scientists at the university of oxford in britain are examining the moral issues concerning the use of ai by big tech. why do users tend to disclose information voluntarily are they aware of the risks involved these are just 2 of many pressing questions for researchers at the institute for ethics and i. can be extremely disruptive in a negative way to society it can be sexist it can be racist it can be extremely unfair. to take one example in 2016 microsoft launched the taney chat bot which could communicate on its own on twitter after just one day of exposure it had to be taken offline after it began parroting massaging mystic and

racist comments. and salted other users and used anti semitic language the researchers in oxford want to predict what will happen with digital clones of people in the future. that's a not unimportant question given the damage that ai can already conscience. you all may have been the victim of unjust is because of your personal daytime ai and you'll never know about it if you ask for a loan and you've got the night if you ask for a job when you've got the night if you ask for an apartment you've got the night you may have been subjected to discrimination you'll never know about it and that is a huge problem so i argue that we should end the data economy even if not in the most populous of societies we agree that there are certain things that should be off the market votes people the results of sports watches i argue that personal data should be included in that at least. caressa valley's contends that privacy will be the

most precious commodity of the future the fact is a lot of people appear increasingly apathetic about the issue especially digital privacy. they are eager to be a part of a community a function that faith has traditionally fulfilled in western societies at least the role of religion is waning. but people do still want to believe in something including life after death. docs it pick take on then big check comes in and introduces the idea that it's not only god who can keep our souls alive for him got him that this could be performed by a different almost magical entity by now marcus' any eyes. and not in heaven but in the clouds in. the quest for immortality as is all this mankind the next generation might manage to make life eternal at least in the

digital world thanks to ai but the question remains not just how much money we would pay for it but what the true cost is. how close that is to becoming a reality is of course another question for many of us artificial intelligence is already a helpful part of our daily routine is not right siri let's see to what extent ai has infiltrated our lives and what the future might have in store. when will artificial intelligence finally be able to operate like my human brain. scientists doubt that what's called strong ai will achieve this anytime soon because human intelligence is so difficult to simulate strong ai systems would be able to think logically and autonomously they'd be capable of learning and speaking

naturally except that still some way off. so if i'm looking for artificial intelligence my only option for now is what's known as weak a i. what is weak ai i'll ask my digital assistant. corning to investigate their official intelligence refers to the security state gets my question but produces a pretty rote answer. google assistant alexa and siri are just equipped with weak ai. has is this retail robot but artificial intelligence is a fast growing market and it's improving all the time. on the research front the u.s. is the world leader with 30000 scientists and engineers working on ai it's followed by china and india germany only has 9000 ai researchers. as for what all these researchers are actually doing many of them work on software

for autonomous vehicle development where self driving cars maneuver their way through traffic on their own. according to some forecasts as soon as 2030 in some parts of the world 30 percent of cars could be autonomous thanks to ai and sometime this century driverless cars could be the norm on roads worldwide. today high performance ai supported robots like to venture a can perform surgery and they're far more precise than their human counterparts and some patients can now get computer aided diagnoses. ai in the medical sector has seen rapid growth. this year also spurred by the covert pandemic and next year the market is expected to be worth more than $6000000000.00 us dollars. but now back to digital assistance even though i'm

not so thrilled with mine their popularity continues to soar. 700000000 people used virtual assistants in 2017. soon almost a quarter of the global population will have access to one. the number of users in 2021 is forecast to exceed 1800000000. well as we heard there artificial intelligence is gaining ground in the medical sector when we're feeling ill we want doctors to give us advice right professionals who make sound decisions and can empathize with us maybe because they know how awful it can feel to be sick empathy might not be something you'd expect from software but artificial intelligence can deliver quick and accurate diagnoses for patients and soon it may be indispensable in the fight against cancer and even covert. modern medicine relies on groundbreaking technologies to diagnose many diseases one might

spread method is magnetic resonance tomography it provides doctors with high resolution images that reveal the structure of internal organs like the brain in great detail but how to deal with the wealth of data. parts of target radiologists have very little time to analyze images nowadays maybe just 10 minutes per patient to look at $200.00 or even $400.00 images. they have to rely on their experience. it's our software by contrast analyzes each individual pixel and captures pacific structures and the brain uses to be who spoke to. machine learning makes it possible computers are fed huge amounts of data and trained to identify the patterns that could indicate certain diseases for example multiple sclerosis and other brain disorders in fact the more data the better they can't and the task. diagnostic systems such as the one made by one berlin

startup sometimes outperform doctors. you get tired eventually we'll be able to automate every part of the process there will be more and more software to address very specific questions and in the end a radiologist will only have to check over certain information so the software will do everything else on its own and in the eyes of the online mom machine learning is also playing a role in the fight against covert 19 for example in developing new tests for the corona virus and out this in the works that uses coughing sneezing and other sounds from the voice is biomarkers to detect the disease. it may not replace the p.c.r. test the gold standard for detecting infection but its developers say its accuracy is around 90 percent they're still collecting audio samples to train the software.

to do a little bit tired he going to measure the lungs activity during coughing and laughing for example reveals how much pressure can be exerted with the lungs on and when dozens are signal processing algorithms measure these things and missing kernan when done legal are submitting audio samples that we are using to train our ai we also asked them if they've tested positive or negative and if they have any symptoms you mind eventa as and. when artificial ventilation is required for patients with severe respiratory disease the risks are heinie the ventilation can itself damage the lungs driving up the death rate. a startup in munich has developed ai software meant to increase the survival rate it creates a digital model of the patient's lungs digital twin and simulates the airflow in the lungs it can then fine tune the pressure of the ventilator should apply to each patient. doubts countries here in michigan with i'm sure until now doctors weren't

able to see inside the lungs they only saw from the outside how much pressure the ventilator was applying to the trachea. with our technology doctors can really look inside and see what happens with the air in the lungs where it goes and where it over stretches the long tissue. and what's more since it's a digital tool it can be tried out on each patient's a digital twin without causing any harm for sure for it's applied to the real patients we. want to put in to put it and so should. the software has yet to be licensed for medical use the company aims to bring it to market by 2023 and hopefully by then covert 19 will be history. well let's hope so even with ai playing a bigger role in medicine the number one question for many of us is how will it impact my job will i even have one in the future now the organization for economic

cooperation and development says that in 2910 percent of all the jobs in the united states where under serious threat due to automation in japan it was 15 percent in germany more than 18 percent mainly because of the country's dependence on industrial manufacturing and that trend is expected to increase even in jobs that require very human trademarks like creativity compassion or the right contacts. with artificial intelligence still my job as a journalist it can already write simple texts. as a journalist i'm worried because artificial intelligence can do so much in the way of processing information and generating texts to be concerned. i don't think we'll see much impact on journalism but be a useful research tool of that so maybe you can help you make

a film with the right music more quickly things like that. having said that ai systems are already used in so-called robot journalism but only in very limited areas. because it's. do ai keeps on getting better all the time and more creative if i understand correctly perhaps my job isn't all that safe to say creativity is relative and machine learning is good at repeating what's been done in the past looks at data and sees what happens and what situation with these kinds of customers by the issues of this sentence is translated like this creativity often means doing something new that's not been done before. but simple office jobs could disappear in the foreseeable future.

so it's often said that people who already work like a robot are most likely to be replaced by one and it's true about a dozen of these to if all i do is transfer numbers from one spreadsheet to another and press then obviously that can be automated with a lot easier to come dozens for this. with some job interviews on the phone it's already a computer asking the questions. crusade and again ai is not always objective because it's fed by people it can sometimes end up being subjective and. some say that once computers take over everything will be rational logical does is that's wrong that humans have a highly specialized gut feeling and computers will keep doing things the same way and assuming it's correct doesn't it but if things have been consistently wrong for example squarely inviting women to job interviews because they i will continue to

invite more men than women we have also with all of this place and i know. and it take is there a technical solution for that a filter that prevents ai from being biased to escape detection lugaid technology exists that can do that and if this is then that does is you can build a system with whatever rules you like you can tell it to invite 50 percent men and 50 percent women to an interview but. the problem is it's incredibly hard to write rules for real life situations and processes because they're often extremely complex complex. systems can recognize faces and estimate someone's if they are being deployed in a growing number of areas and are getting better and better. what about the fear that with ai computers will eventually become conscious and she's control can we

rule that out well last month. philosophers of technology like to make scary predictions and publish dire warnings in the press about what's going to happen often sides of this but some are journalists who just want to make a splash. in order for elon musk also he's a good example is if he invests in ai and also issues warnings because he wants to be in the limelight you have to consider what these people aim to achieve to get this not of course there might be a tiny chance this technology could sit on such systems but i think it's a tiny chance and i can't imagine how it would work. looks like the people in charge will continue to retain oversight and responsibility for decision making now with about one 3rd of office workers around the globe now doing their job from home keeping tabs on them has become a challenge special software lets managers monitor those in their home offices it

is a practice that might be useful but is also highly controversial. some people find working at home a real treat. the boss is nowhere in sight the pressure is off. you can briefly check what's coming up then read the morning paper in peace. in fact why even bother getting up. but not all bosses take such a relaxed view with staff assembled in the office back in the prepared demick days management could keep closer tabs on who does what how well and how fast. around 30 percent of office workers worldwide now work from home. artificial intelligence to the rescue from the management perspective that is. there is no software available that can remotely measure performance using data such as the link the phone calls

who says what as well as keyboard and mouse activity. some companies take screenshots of employees computers at home or even film their employees. that's banned in germany but in some countries this kind of surveillance is flourishing i asked a global trade union federation what they make of this development. workers are used to being monitored to some extent and levels of productivity or at least a daily report on what they do you that some of the monitoring systems are so intrusive and so disrespectful of any autonomy that people are. very very offended it really depends how the company implements it whether the workers have any say. a big issue for labor organizations is that people should know what kind of data their employers intend to collect and are able to provide or deny their consent.

transparent business is a us company that develops solutions for remote work force management one of its programs let's companies keep track of progress in their various projects who have done what they mean associated costs. in its own work force in our data on what they do each day themselves the concept is the brainchild of silvio mckinney seen here in a promotional film it was developed for use in a marketing agency she launched now it sells to companies worldwide and. you want to run every mile you need the challenge you get that's. so even if you manage there are even more efficiently and then we decided that it makes sense for us throughout all this is because when you have a go at the more you are. so that acknowledged was changed. it was like suddenly shifted from. playing.

with remote working becoming the new norm man for monitoring software has soared since the pandemic struck transparent business is also a kind of employment agency helping companies find vetted professionals from a worldwide pool of experts. both these activities use a i. very seriously if they that if they had in their mission because for example we use my finger really they just said on this which ferguson has that right when he goes to mike lee if a person that is one of the u.k. or someone like that. i actually can't wait to get back to the office but i know many others in. want to stay at home or will be required to. and software that gives our bosses remote control over operations is set to play an increasingly important role. and who would have thought that we'd actually miss those days at

the office right that's our show for this week thanks for watching for me and the entire made team by by staying healthy and serious.

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