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what secrets lie behind this will. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage site. e.w. world heritage 360 get kidnapped now. how much do you like your job 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 i'm bad i'm chris colfer welcome ai systems
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are designed to make our lives easier they adapt 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. come. cried miss you. 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
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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
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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 that got into any of the guitar an entire market is opening up in the digital sector that's tackling these questions. and i get to states as 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 at their. genes vlahos is the founder of a company called hereafter when his father was diagnosed with cancer he fit a chimp bond with text and audio messages from his father as well as interviews with him the resulting dad bought learned how to communicate like his father. was then turned the idea into a business model after paying for
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a subscription people can now send in record chats and phone videos of their loved ones the company then generates a custom chant bond with the voice of the deceased. you know who you. are you facing any 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
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much with those in mourning be prepared to pay for a priceless moment like this and how would it affect them emotionally. i guess being most welcome is 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 mentioned by you because they have trouble differentiating between reality and virtuality social norms psychologists refer to the possibility of a morning where patients get caught in a loop of grieving and i can no longer escape the pain. it's because of as i have been stuck up in a sense this is a kind of open heart experiment 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
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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 ai. ai can be extremely of the structure of a negative way to society it can be sexist it can be racist it can be extremely unfair. didn't want to example in 2016 microsoft. monch detained 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 missile engine istic
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and racist comments to me and some to 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 got the night if you ask for an apartment you got denied you may have been subjected to discrimination i only know about it and that is a huge problem so i argue that we should end the day take on a me even if 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 matches and i argue that personal data should be included in that least. caressa veiling least
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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 the community a function that faith has traditionally fulfilled and western societies at least the role of religion is waning. but people do still want to believe in something and proving life after death. dobbs get picked on then big check comes in and introduces the idea that it's not only god who can keep our souls so long form gods and that this could be performed by a different almost magical entity by margaret. and not in heaven but in the clouds. out. the quest for immortality this is all this mankind the next generation might manage to make life eternal at least in the
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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 but 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 when 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
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naturally except that's still some way off. so if i'm looking for artificial intelligence my only option for now is what's known as weak. what is weak i'll ask my digital assistant. corning to investigate their artificial intelligence refers to the secular state gets my question but produces a pretty rote answer. google assistant alexa and siri are just equipped with weak ai. fans 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
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for autonomous vehicle development where self driving cars maneuver their way through traffic on their own. according to some forecasts as soon as 2030 and 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 assistants even though i'm
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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 expect from software but artificial intelligence can deliver quick and accurate diagnosis for patients and soon it may be indispensable in the fight against cancer and even. modern medicine reliance on groundbreaking technologies to diagnose many diseases one
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might spread method is magnetic resonance tomography it provides doctors with high resolution images that repeal the structure of internal organs like the brain in great detail but how did you make 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 brains he's a bishop 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 think it and the task. they identified gnostic systems such as the
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one made by one berlin startup sometimes outperform doctors. we have you get tired of 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 on the back of the line the mom machine learning is also playing a role in the fight against code with 19 for example and developing new tests for the coronavirus 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 it's developers say its accuracy is around 90 percent they are still collecting audio samples to train the software . the moment entirely going to match the lungs activity during coughing and
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laughing for example reveals how much pressure can be exerted with the logs on and when dozens are signal processing algorithms measure these things and missing kernan when done little are submitting audio samples that we are using to train our ai we also ask them if they've tested positive or negative and if they have any symptoms you might event was and tore my heart 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 the ventilator should apply to each patient. the arts can base here and if you don't move i'm trying till now doctors
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weren't able to see inside the lungs they only saw from the outside how much pressure the ventilator was applying to the trachea but 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 but the. 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 then hopefully by then 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
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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. 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 as would be a useful research so maybe you can help you make
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a film with the right music more quickly things like that and. 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 creativity is relative machine learning is good at repeating what's been done in the past and it looks at data and sees what happens and what situations 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. there's good reason
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for 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 send obviously that can be automated become dozens for this. with some job interviews on the phone it's already a computer asking the questions. is not always objective because it's fed by people it can sometimes end up being subjective is a big key from and much about design some say that once computers take over everything will be rational logical this is that's wrong that humans have a highly specialized gut feeling and computers will keep doing things the same way and it's simming it's correct does it but if things have been consistently wrong for example squarely inviting women to job interviews because they i will continue
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to invite more men than women we have met not also with all of this place and i know a lot. yes and it takes is there a technical solution for that a filter that prevents ai from being biased to escape detection and technology exists that can do that and if this is then that does this you can build a system with whatever rules you like you can tell it to invite 50 percent men then 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 so complex. systems can recognize faces and estimate someone's they're 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
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rule that out there 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 that he invests in ai and also issues warnings because he wants to be in the limelight and you have to consider what these people aim to achieve to get this not to 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
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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 pre-planned demick days management to 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
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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 something extent and levels of productivity or at least a daily report on what they do this 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.
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transparent business is a us company that develops solutions for remote workforce management and one of its programs let's companies keep track of progress in their various projects who has done what they mean associated costs. and its own workforce entered 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. if you want to run every mile you need the challenge to get that going and. so we benefit all humanity or are even more efficient and then we decided that it makes sense for us throughout all this is because when you have a go at me. i'm being so that acknowledged was changed. it was like suddenly. shifted from. playing.
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with remote working becoming the new norm demand for monitoring software has soared since the pandemic struck transparent business is also a kind of employment agency helping companies find better professionals from a worldwide pool of experts. both these activities use a i. ever seen a day that it could be had in their missions because for example we use my few very data set on this which ferguson has that right when you see you might it person that is wanting to hire someone and i guess. i actually can't wait to get back to the office but i know many others. 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 all for this week thanks for watching
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the story of prejudice and propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards. their mothers were germans living in the occupied rhineland their fathers soldiers from the french colonies the feast after the german children had a hard time isn't because they were reminder of the german defeat. they grew up in a climate of national pride and racism if of the european population felt that it was important to be white and to stay right tyson like. exclusion and contempt culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence. because. of shame. surged or 11th on d. w.
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. imagine being born as. your ally to come prove it since you want to look for no school. you want to be useful but on allowed to. when you're sick the doctors know when you fall in love they won't. you don't have children for fear they'll be invisible to. us you. have no human rights. when you die there's no proof of you ever exist. and every 10 minutes. someone this is. 10000000 p. in the world of state they have no nationality i'm told they don't belong there. but everyone has the right. everyone has the right to say.
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