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reinvention. restoring. in south africa. and i have. special edition of the program it's good to have you with us. for yes the rising water between the homes and businesses. the high 2020 you tube. and to make matters worse. you see them behind me lake. and lake bull gloria they have grown so much in recent times that their marriage. is a fresh what on it's the provide drinking water on people will be an ecological disaster

. meet correspondent went out to reports. lake bulgaria so swollen from rising water levels that the shoreline changes every day. we see this early on in our trip when the access road unexpectedly becomes part of the leak. nearby we find. who's just arrived to open her bar and restaurant but there's been a dramatic change. there's water this water just came in within one day so it came slowly and slowly until it got to this level so without any notice you have to demolish within just a few seconds china gas has already been forced to move her business once it's inevitable that she will have to move again and she's not the only one the structure we're looking at is an entry point that was erected by the kenya wildlife service after their original gates were submerged by what i wanted took 3 months

before the lake eventually caught up with this one and we can clearly see that this water is unrelenting what we can't see but we can certainly smell is the sewerage that's also being brought to be this because obviously people here use pit latrines and all their contents are now under water and the water is clearly unrelenting because all around us the ground is soggy and there is little of all over the place the extent of the flooding can be seen clearly from neighboring lake or ingo the freshwater lake has expanded by 60 percent in the last 7 years this year has been by far the worst folks are to a guide grew up on the shores of the sleek work has been scarce as most of the hotels are now underwater. he leads us to one of many flooded schools in the area so even the yearly seen all decaying buildings.

but our last story is the most significant for folks i grew up here my foster until years of life are spent each year this was my playground it's quite sad to see it drop going through and i don't know what i'm going to tell my kids. scientists are warning that freshwater lake baringo and saltwater liquid gorier could merge the cross contamination would destroy the balance of the ecosystem. to understand what is happening to the lakes we head to the forest home to the rivers that feed the lakes in the rift valley mau forest is recovering from years of deforestation. david weston has been a conservationist for more than 50 years he says the destruction of the catchment areas is just one in a series of linked problems the pastoral people are settling down and staying in one place so what that means is every single day you have heavy grazing and that is really prominent around the baringo basin up in the hills on the side so all of

that erosion has been washed off routinely so in 2018 we had rainfall which was the equivalent of el nino in 1908 then followed last year by these extraordinary rains which have continued for a whole year so that means they're gratian a huge amount of runoff and siltation and it's the combination of those 2 that have made the rift valley lakes and even other areas like amboseli just lift 10 sometimes 15 metres thank you bill gloria the strong bring. it short thanks for the oceanus. china got is visibly worried and soon how worst fears are realized the water level has gone up again this could be her last day on this land. there's one cafe that i would like to visit one day it's in uganda and it's the 1st of its kind because all its stock in. a

company says it wants to see the death and also create jobs for this marginalized group a sign language coffee was launched in august and as you're about to see its clientele is growing. roy has a custom of. rooster is dave so he uses sign language to communicate. he's worked as a barista at this coffee shop in compiler photo months now. when i make good coffee and i serve the customers order perfectly and i get a positive feedback that makes me really happy especially if it comes from different customers. russo graduated from university 3 years ago but since then he's had real difficulty finding a job. uganda has one of the world's highest youth unemployment rates

resources that being dave makes it even worse. i would apply for jobs write letters send evils and all that but whenever i mention that i was deaf they became afraid of working with me either and they wouldn't give a chance they wouldn't hire me. workmates i believe too but that doesn't stop them from offering great service to their customers and by employing them the owner of the company wants to help break down stereotypes i guess that dave. will want to inspire the other companies and employers out there to employ different people because we are capable i want to use these people here as role model as. according to official figures uganda has 1800000 different people that is about 3 percent of it

a relation of the activists see that this number could be higher. sees that different people are often not taken into account by the government he cites the recent distribution of free fish musts which he sees did you not to be a special needs into direct consideration with a deaf we use a lot of lip reading you see what i say without a face mask but when i cover my lips information is missing for sure expressions are hidden by the mask. seeds that people often misinterpret is just as he says he has learned to live with the 8 but i think makes his way home of terry veazey did he still hopes that some good that might change for the better. now what you see here is unmistakable it's a little rusty

a little very rustic maybe but it's a classic and i love discuss and mistake of all social. but isn't going extinct plans because a hobby for most new rich old men to get rich yeah that may be true kristi to some extent all money in south africa has found a way to create a nice business with now the 38 year old with some help from her husband will say restores vintage cars in the eastern cape province and i'll corresponded address and creech paid her a visit. this $947.00 pontiac is no simple hole it's one as bright and joy she bought the vehicle for less than $200.00 euros so far she spent about 2 years and around 2000 euros renovating it.

for. the 38 year old renovates vintage cars which she later than either runs our all sells for a nice price a property in the middle of nowhere on south africa's eastern cape it looks like a cross between a scrap yard and take our museum. i don't have so much equipment i'm using crime to remove that last you know. 7 years ago and most people saw a documentary on classic cars that sparked your interest and told her husband who works for them and it's a policy but it's also a gifted car mechanic together they founded a company now they have 3 employees. i used to pray god to give me. a lady like that like that now of course it from court. very bit when i'm sitting here i don't muck i want to see at the gum but you know i mean i'm

getting hit because they used to call me the mother of the broken. sometimes they don't they tell me with a negative way that's just listing time with his calves and. claes be when i finish that point that they do so i go on to say no just continues. today they're off to look at another potential project and i was right from the village they travel as you might expect and the classic car. appeared. they're looking at a $963.00 japanese pick up truck that. everything it's but i'm. not going to be. placing was around $300.00 euros. this guy he has more than 50 years old and you can see it's a lot of work needs to be done but most of the hope that if they do

a good job they'd be able to resell it for up to 7500 euro. but 1st to get the vehicle ready to be transported. i believe i love this picture. just inside my heart i'm going to try it with. my mind. but that is precisely the issue no one has been there for taking the old pickup to heart which means it won't be easy to say goodbye to it when they come to sell it on. there just absolutely well that's all for this special edition. and today we'll leave you with the song that had everybody being. very good not exactly. like e.g. flock hundreds of millions of you. i watched you on but. by

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welcome to arts and culture with a look at artificial intelligence now one fear a lot of people have when it comes to ai is that robots might put people out of a job but could that include artists well it might depend on how you define art and creativity already ai computers and robots are producing what some people would consider art like these pictures made by a robot and england. behind the old walls of this 16th century manage just outside london their lives a robot the drawers. this machine with a human face is named ada. she's a robot with the mannerisms of a real artist. i was. curious if you like. we know what. agent has been drawing and painting since 2019 last

year her work sold out as an exhibition at oxford university has estimated that collectors have paid more than 1000000 pounds for how well x. . gallery owner age and miller came up with the idea to create a. believe that was you try. to write every poetry oh the hurt is pretty cold. together with a team of computer scientists robotics experts and designers millar developed in his own words the world's 1st robot artist programmed for creativity. major draws with chalk and paints with acrylic. but is this real arts or is it just a grand technical achievement. we've heard. from different artists thinking oh my

goodness what does that mean for my own ability of the actual for we very much believe that the wiser. and. within the art world is very much similar to the rise of the camera in the 18 fifty's and sixty's. people were very threatened by this camera that it was the end of painting the age of raises the question whether human artists will be competing against robots in the future. the idea that artificial intelligence could replace humans isn't new for a long time filmmakers have been stoking fears about the potential threat of ai will be chatting with the film expert in a moment 1st here's a look back at ai in films starting with hal the murderous computer and the classic 2001 a space odyssey. open the doors oh. i'm

sorry. i'm afraid i can't do that computer how is an intelligent beast but with the emphasis on beast think you know what the problem is just as well as write this mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize an. intractable how doesn't think much of people speaking there's no reason to since this so liable to breaking down. in films intelligent machines usually run amok though a few strive to be human sometimes even more humane than never all mortals saving the robot in steven spielberg's ai even wants to build real relationships they are real. but is david as harmless as he looks. at singer's going to murder me and my straight. in one of the red comedies about i the robot may not look human but he's

a real body. of you ever had a dream to you that you were so sure was real. in the matrix trilogy i am i control an entire power no universe one in which people are clearly not welcome. in being and soon to see. cancerous this planet leave. a message to. the terminator is sent back from the future to correct the course of history he's a killing machine died just by ai because humans could in danger robots in the future they're deemed expendable. but later it's machines against machines and everything ends in chaos yet. most cinematic confrontations with the humans who come out on top. that's probably

because the now people are still writing scripts. trust me. so are the robots coming to take away our culture reporter scott rock springs here to talk to me about it scott are movies safe they are going to take over the film studios or can or you can rest assured that that's going to be a human pursuit for now i think we're safe i mean there have been a few attempts to get. to work in the in the movie industry there a few years ago there was a film that was entirely scripted by ai the producers took dozens of science fiction screenplays and they fed it into this program called the benjamin and then asked benjamin to spit out a script which they then shot as a real movie. thomas middleditch we might know from muscle com valley started this film it's called sun spring and i think we have a clip take a listen and not write like. well i have to. go

to the skull. yeah the dialogues completely dodd said sickle it's kind of malaria it's actually the plot jumps all over the place i mean it makes absolutely no sense interesting about this film is the only thing that holds it together are the human actors who actually try to convey some real emotion as they're speaking at this gobbledygook so at least for now i think we're safe benjamin's no danger of winning an oscar anytime soon ok but let's assume let's assume that the ai does get better and make something that you know looks like art sounds like art smells like art will it be art if it's ok by humans yeah i think it's almost a philosophical question i mean. is are about intention i mean do you have to want to make art in order to be an artist and if that's the case then ai which is programs can never be artists if they can only be the tool used by artists i mean i think of like button artists like you know jeff koons or andy warhol who sometimes use these. factories where they got other people to actually do the physical production you know the painting or printing or whatever it was we still considered

them the artist because it was their idea was their intention to to make the art and so far at least a i can't have intention ok we can't computers produce something that seems at least original yeah i guess i mean some spring that's pretty original shift kind of entertaining i think it's interesting if you look at some forms of art like like music is an interesting example because you can program a i to copy certain styles of music and maybe make compositions that have never been heard girls who are original i mean there's an example the 10 symphony of beethoven's tensity was unfinished they programmed computer to finish it by giving it you know teach you how to play beethoven style music and the music is actually quite good and it sounds coherent a lot more coherent than the script that we just heard but is it actually art. music is a lot about math and computers definitely can do math. better than i can it's got rocks for effects so much and some of his most impressive artistic achievements if you can call them artistic have in the realm of sound media artist composer and

coder the noise uses computers to analyze nature and then ai transforms the data and dimensions of the landscapes into music. music composed by river scape over to put it more precisely the rivers many bends analyzed and transposed into notes the rhythm is set by the forces of nature. and knows when the river has lots of bends or has a more complex visual structure hellish than the musical structure is also more complex and when the course of the river changes then you also hear that as acoustic feedback as a kind of live ranter potations based on the data acquired by the. algorithms to fit with countless examples which teach the ai what turned sounds into music it can then suggest one theme the melody couldn't bark or next.

music made mathematically is it creative is it art. it's another approach that's the way you need to imagine it like i'm going to belong to a whole generation of new composers and also artists who have grown up with technology and with algorithmic methods that mission metod and what ai has now opened up for machine learning to put it more precisely is a kind of sparring partners bearings part. a partner that helps in the composition process and reacts to suggestions. for 9 years musician ali nick ryan has been developing a program to write sophisticated compositions was this written by a man or a machine it's impossible to tell.

he's big breakthrough came with a program which can compose pieces in the style of everything from mozart to shall pass. the listen to a piece of music that is accomplished by an ai since it is able to examine responses because of the exact day i says and does not understand our emotions. classical pianist glenn gould performances were emotional and unconventional though he died in 1902 his style is still alive and well. thanks to ai. so what we're doing is we're analyzing audio recordings to see out here interpret a given piece of music and try to change to an ai system so that i could play an expressive style of. bringing going all back to life. it's as if glen gold's ghost

is sitting at the piano those who knew him a star. christian knows it doesn't just want to imitate human creations he wants to explore unknown to mentions through his arms with the help from ai he's collected some of the wudi signals. or. become very rich as we take this great unknown outer space and we try to capture radio signals from space and then we have our manmade scan it to look for patterns which we wouldn't be able to find on our

own fin transcriptions from space interpreted by using familiar harmonies it's a bit by bit bizarre yet somehow sublime. and it's been sublime talking to you through this robot controlled studio camera thanks for watching arts and culture remember to follow us on facebook and twitter at d.f.w. culture all the best for me i'm occur here in berlin see you next time. the

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