our guest for the hour is ai weiwei.nning the hour with world-renowned chinese artist, dissident, activist. in 2008 after the massive sichuan earthquake in china, ai weiwei launched its citizen to collect more than 500000 school children center dot partially as a result of the highly shoddy government construction of the schools while citizen investigation catapulted him to the internationally fame, it also enraged at his government officials. in 2009,'s popular blog was shut down just of a few months later, police broke into his hotel room , attacked them, for to him in the face, causing cerebral imaging. he had emergency brain surgery, which he later documented in his film "so sorry." placed underg was house arrest after the chinese government demolishes studio. tenant 2011, arrested the beijing airport, held for 81 days without any charge, chinese authorities seized his passport, refused to turn it until 2015. -- return it until 2015 after this exhibition, what did happen to you in 2009? test as trying to do a a witne

this is another key point about professional ai.rs don't want a black-and-white answer, nor does any profession. if you are a professional, my guess is when you interact with ai, you don't want to say, here is an answer. what a doctor wants is ok, give me the possible answers. tell me why you believe it. can i see the research, the evidence, percent confidence? what more would you like to know? that is really what we are doing. the first cancer took almost a year. we are down to less than 30 days now. year, watson this will have been trained on what causes 80% of the world's cancers. so i find that criticism out of line for what it is we are working on together with doctors. so those of you -- i want to focus the story on this. you know, we are really fortunate in this country, this city. if you got cancer, you will go to a cancer center. in america, only 50% of americans will go to cancer centers. the other 85% -- only 15% of americans will go to cancer centers. will go to their doctor. go to china and india and you have one oncolo

in ai. >> been working in ai since 1984. i'm still passio in passion to get things done. >> in 1984, what was that project. >> our team was learning and looking at core logical methods, a's and bees to uncertainty. even probability, science to grapple with the complexities of the open world. that paradigm, which back in those days was a small bunch of rebellious grad students became the dominant paradigm. how we invoke and understand how to take data and advise in the broad open world. the open world is typically far more complex than the machines that we build. these machines had to be humbled enough to understand what it is they don't know as well as what they do know to make progress in the world. >> you mentioned earlier, there's been an inflection point in artificial intelligence. what was that? >> to be clear to your viewers , the field of ai has been making advances continually for almost 45 - 50 years. however, the public sees these kinds of scaling and demonstrations like jeopardy being one by a computer or the ches

ai and become dominant in ai -- this ai future we keep hearing about?: to me, microsoft's approach will be all around, how do we take ai? today is a little perverse in how everyone says look how cool i am because of the ai capability. that is not how microsoft approaches any problem. it is not about any parlor trick of hours or a promise we celebrate. the most important thing to us is, are we market sizing so every customer of ours can build their own ai. if you want this industrial revolution, we now -- need to find a way to demarketise it so that anyone can use ai to their endeavor. emily: is elon musk right to be warning about the dangers of ai, the military applications or otherwise? satya: with any new technology, there is a lot of good that comes with it and we should grab hold of it and be clear eyed about any unintended competition -- answer quenches. --unintended consequences. we've got to be able to use ai to empower humans. but that said, wherever ai runs amok or we lose control, that could be dangerous. so, i think the first responsibility w

the answer, ai as we've never known it before.f denver, where an entire neighbourhood is expunged in a flash and replaced with something more aesthetically pleasing. instead of just trying to fill in the area with surrounding pixels, the software can now extract meaning from the image and make a smart substitute from its library of 100 million other pictures. a similar principle is at play here. the plaster now intelligently removed as the software can understand the protrusion in the middle of a person's face as a nose. and say you wanted to remove something or someone from a video. right now you could try it frame by painstaking frame. the chances are the result would look crude. but this demo is real. a research project we may well see in a future version of adobe's products. in this era of fake news, the implications of being able to easily and convincingly fool your audience are, of course, potentially troublesome, but adobe is more interested in the creative potential of ai. we are trying to reimagine the entire creative pro

technologies understand what ai is about to do and it is socially and makes humans redundant ok this is a good point to turn to a video clip we put posted we made on my iphone about this so a lot of people analysts will say don't worry about the self driving cars there for so far in the future well max and i when we were in scottsdale arizona just a few days ago we called one of these sort of things lift cars and they showed up in the south driving vehicle and the guy allowed us he gave us permission to film him and we filmed this the car was driving itself his hands were off the wheel and it was like the car was using these with me humans chunky human people like to interact with us to convince us that this is all good don't worry we're all sweet and five here so let's cut to that video it's driving itself to make this nature huge just start to show you how to get well oh my god i don't follow this curtis well. so yeah i mean stick knowledge is pretty cool. when you first start to train what you want to do everything like you're used to suppose you know they tell you all the trust t

zeros and ones right in front of them in their eyes it's an extinction event the ironhorse and the ai for a large population in north america and around the world will be a similar extinction event and. the parallels are pretty clear and the the way that the two sides are lined up was pretty clear obviously iran musk is fighting the establishment with this with his vision whereas a mark zuckerberg is feeding the establishment over there at facebook they work hand in glove with the intelligence services and within establishment so obviously they would not warn folks of the ai apocalypse all the horizon but of some of those folks that have been building these transformative technologies understand what ai is about to do and it is socially and makes humans redundant ok this is a good point to turn to a video clip we put posted that we made on my iphone about this so a lot of people analysts will say don't worry about the self driving cars there for so far in the future well max and i when we were in scottsdale arizona just a few days ago we called one of these sort of things lift cars an

they say the entire creative process should be way more efficient and ai adobe's ai creative assistant images based on my sketch. and within seconds, others space based themes appear, based on your very rough sketch of a woman in a spaceship. what you might we thinking is all of this is pretty similar to the ai used by google and apple. we have decades and decades of understanding of how artists actually work in our tools. and when one of the world's best creative artists launches photoshop and they know what a creatively pleasing and aesthetically pleasing image is, we are learning from that. so we're not training on just images of cats or dogs, we're training with the world's best people. i was certainly impressed at how for example the ai could take an image of me and within seconds return matches and then further refine them. the tech also understands 3d, so you don't have to be an artist to easily design and iterate. few people would argue that al is fantastic in terms of creating efficiencies in our work flows, but is there a danger that an over reliance on our machines instead o

well what does it take to maintain a completely ai defense system as you point out its early days on this but sort of you know the concept is so broad it's going to be expensive even for the little guys right. oh most definitely this is not something that that the average person is going to be able to do they're going to have to buy a product you're going to have to get to one of the antivirus companies that are already implementing this technology and use it networks of a large size are going to have to implement large scale systems that are going to employ this kind of technology and it's still going to have to be managed by people this is not something that is going to be let loose and run by itself this is not you know the science fiction that we want to be it's still early on and we have to deal with the fact that humans make this humans attack it and humans are going to have to manage this whole program whose work in this industry do you think has the last chance of being successful because as you said these companies are going to have to buy a product you can't just develop th

i think the problem of making an ai or robot if you like, a robot isjust ai in a physical body, thatence to a human being, an average human being if you like, averagely intelligent human being, is extraordinary difficult and part of the problem, part of the reason it's so difficult is we don't actually have the design, if you like, the architecture of human minds. but in principle you think we can get it? what i'm driving at really is this principle philosophical question of what the brain is. to you, professor, is the brain in the end chemistry? is it material? is it a lump of matter? yes. does it have any spiritual or any other tangible thing? it is chemistry? i'm a materialist, yes, the brain is thinking meat. that is a bit of a copout. you said thinking meat, it is meat and the way that meat is arranged means it could think, so you could create something artificial where, if it was as complex and well arranged as human capacity could make it one day, it could also think? i believe in principle, yes. but the key thing is architecture. in a sense, the way to think about the current

i don't think ai takes anything away. i think it ends up being this news at your elbow.ailing view amongst creatives here, keen to embrace the possibilities offered up in an ai world. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that the hawaiian city of honolulu began fining people $99 for paying too much attention to their smartphone while crossing the road. microsoft announced it's ceased manufacturing its motion sensing controller, kinect. and japanese company toyota gosei showed up a concept car showed off a concept car with the airbags on the outside in tokyo. meanwhile, nissan revealed the artificially created noise its electric cars will emit. us authorities are insisting all hybrid and electric cars will have to emit a sound for safety reasons. amazon now wants to enter its customers‘ homes when making deliveries. the system is called amazon key. trustworthy types who sign up will make use of a smart lock, which will open their front door, allowing deliveries to be left inside their homes. so suspicious souls will be able to view the delivery on a smar

able to identify things correctly because the theory the system could crash completely because the ai perceives a threat in reaction to it and shuts things down and it may not be real so at least in the near future humans are still going to have to be there to see what happens with the and be able to respond to the problems that are associated with whatever action the ai takes but what does it take to maintain a completely ai defense system as you point out its early days on this but sort of you know the concept is so broad it's going to be expensive even for the little guys right. oh most definitely this is not something that that the average person is going to be able to do they're going to have to buy a product you're going to have to get to one of the antivirus companies that are already implementing this technology and use it networks of a large size are going to have to implement large scale systems that are going to employ this kind of technology and it's still going to have to be managed by people this is not something that is going to be let loose and run by itself this is no

how are we using ai on a daily basis, what is an example? >> some of us, i drive to work, completere is automation. other places is under the hood. in windows 10 operating system the machine learning going on in the os always guessing what you making thet and computer smarter and faster. in places like in hospitals predicting outcomes and guiding patient therapy to where it is needed. ,e have a couple of projects our team for several years now looking at how to take large quantities of data they have build models like you predict who is going to be readmitted in 30 days and if you do that in advance who will come back in 30 days, you can do special things that would be too costly to do for all patients. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. you toant to introduce william mendoza of microsoft. what are you demonstrating? >> i am demonstrating how microsoft views artificial intelligence and cognitive capabilities can be used to make customer experiences better whether it is for a company or some organization. aiwhat is your definition o

the purpose of ai is not, our current focus on ai is not about replicating the human mind, not in an entirety, not in a general sense. its purpose primarily is around what i call augment ng the human mind and amplifying the [ no audio ] >> that allows the information coming in. we're seeing in the field to be distilled. and yes, there's some reasonable similarity for the reasonable processes and nonetheless, we can activate the human mind, to see perspectives that might otherwise be overlooked. to help people see through their buy as. -- biases, the trigsers that cause us as humans to have a new idea and to bring that to whatever problem we're dealing with, whether that's in intelligence setting. in private sector, of cork turs the similarities are to financial investors, recognizing that most of the decisions are going to be based on predicting and anticipating and forecasting what the market's going to do or in the case of health care doing the same thing for identifying the right treatments for a patient, recognizing that in this case you're predicting and anticipating and forecas

super intelligence ai is very good at achieving goals.f we want to build whatever it an anthill even. >> when is super intelligence going to arrive and when should we start panicking? >> it doesn't have to be something negative. ai might be the best thing to happen to humanity if we get it right. we need to start right away. for example, we will need to figure out they learn the goals of humanity and adopt them and remain the goals as they get smarter. >> thanks, max. how do i get involved to make sure we don't live in a super powered intelligence dictatorship? >> on that note i am interested to carry the conversation to hear what the future you want to create with this technology. thank you so much. sgh so max and i are going to start the conversation and after 30 minutes or so we will ask you to join in. let me pick up. that tender was asking a question when do you think artificial general intelligence going to be here and you daunl dodged the question. we did holes of this and you can be precise. what are the people saying when we migh

charlie: explain for most people what ai means to you. to me it is technology that perhaps will empower us more so than any piece of software we have created. i will give you an example. a very simple example. we have now the capability to have software that can recognize objects. speed ande any real say, this is a cup, this is a book, that is charlie. he is smiling. just imagine that ability to recognize objects in motion and relay that to someone with visual impairment. in fact, a colleague of mine uses this app that we developed called seeing ai. it basically gives anyone with visual impairment this toting-edge ai capability interpret the world. she now can go into our cafeteria and tells people for the first time she can order with confidence because she can see the menus, check out the ingredients. she can go to a conference. she says, i can now walk into a conference room with confidence knowing that that is the right one. i'm not barging into a meeting i wasn't invited to. for her, ai is really empowering. charlie: restored site. s

impairment this cutting edge ai capability to interpret the world. so she now can go into our cafeteria and tells me for the first time order with confidence because she can read the menu. she can check out the ingredients. she can go into a conference room, i had not even realized how hard it is, you know, she says can i now walk into a conference room with confidence knowing that that is the right one. i'm not barging too a meeting that i was not invited into. and for her, ai is really empowering her. >> rose: restored sight. >> completely, restored sight and making her fully participate at microsoft as an employee of microsoft. one of the other things that we, again, a group of passionate people did was brought technology together, right into words which allows kids with dyslexia to be able to read and i look at that and i say woi, that is empowerment. so ai clearly, like any new technology is going to have unintended consequences. could even create displacement. we have to deal with it with a clear eye approach. but let us not be afraid of it. an

can ai fix this problem? or is it something only a human can do?oth ai can get better because you say, here is a weird ad buy. here is something that looks like its external forces trying to do political ads. now let's have some humans look at it. i think the answer is actually both. i think the answer is to improve the ai to detect fraud or other malicious cyberattacks. and then have humans get involved. they go, this is weird, take a to robots and jobs? i'd know we always ask about it. it seems like the ground is involved. they go, this is weird, take a look at this. emily: what about when it comes are jobs under threat, and how many of them? reid: jobs will get transformed, just as any technological revolution changes them. people had this worry from agriculture moving to the city, and a this worry from shifting beneath us as we speak. manufacturing. we have to pay attention to people. these transitions can be very difficult. however, i don't think that means jobs are just going away. i think technology also usually creates a lot of new jobs. an

kqed's monica lam spoke with ai weiwei when he was in san francisco recently. >> reporter: ai weiwei, artist, activist, your film, human flow, documents massive human migration due to war, violence, disaster. what did you learn from making this film? >> what i have learned is very simple. among the 65 million refugees, there's no single one that's willing to leave their home. they all struggle not to leave. it's a very heavy price they have to pay. relatives, friends, or whole village vanished, a war, a famine. >> united states president donald trump has cut in half, more than half, the number of refugees allowed in this country. what is your reaction to that? >> i think that the current administration, what they did is beyond belief. >> more than ever, we need the wall. we have drugs pouring through. >> i should say it's shameful. a nation like the united states, which is the most powerful not only leading in the economics but should be strongest nation in defending human rights. after all, u.s. is a nation of immigrants. just a few generations ago, we all come from somewhere. >> abs

can ai fix this problem? is it something only a human can do? reid: i think both ai can get better.weird ad buy. here is something that looks like it's external forces trying to do political ads. now let's have some humans look at it. i think the answer is actually both. improve the ai to detect fraud. have humans get involved. this is weird, take a look at this. emily: what about when it comes to robots and jobs? it seems like the ground is shifting beneath us as we speak. shifting beneath us as we speak. are jobs under threat, and how many of them? reid: jobs will be transformed, just as any technological revolution changes them. people had this worry from agriculture moving to the city, from manufacturing. we have to pay attention to people. these transitions can be very difficult. i don't think that means jobs are just going away. technology also usually creates a lot of new jobs. an ai may read your radiology exam a lot better than a radiologist, but a radiologist can still be there to talk to people, can still be there to look at the weird cases, that kind of thing. that's the

this particular question of ai and the economy and jobs and i'd love to focus on that.there is a story out there that robots are coming and they will destroy jobs on a scale that we haven't seen. what is your take? >> i'm sick and tired of hearing that robots will take our jobs. he will only do that if that is what we tell them to do. a lot of what we have to think about is how are we telling them that and why are we telling them and what do we do about it. steve: let's just take some of those examples. examples of manufacturing jobs that people worry will be displaced. what is the argument there and how can we tell the robots to operate in a way that doesn't destroy those jobs. >> the thing we're wrong about robots is we think of this object as the robot and the robot is the system and we are actually living inside the future ai. the strongest face of it is not actually sites like google and facebook but our financial markets. what you have to understand is these are vast digital systems that actually shape human society and we see it with facebook and we understand th

chinese artist ai weiwei's newest project. but first, what life is like in the u.s.gin islands one month after hurricane maria struck. william brangham has an update. >> brangham: given what happened when recent hurricanes hit texas, florida and puerto rico, it's easy to lose sight of the u.s. virgin islands where 100,000 american citizens live. they were hit by two category-5 storms in the span of two weeks. progress is being made, but there's a long way to go. on st. john, for example, power is largely still out for everyone. electricity is quite limited on st. thomas and st. croix, too. many structures, including two hospitals, schools and police stations, were destroyed. for a look at the latest, we talked by phone with a state senator on the island, janette millin young. senator, thank you very much for being here. i wonder if you could just start off by giving us a sense of what daily life is like there now. >> daily life continues to be a struggle for many people here in the united states virgin islands. if you were here, the optics would tell you a little dif

which is ai? it is.ning. good morning. which is ai ? it is. let's good morning. good morning. which is ai? it is. let's start with somalia, the guardian, reeling as terrorist attack leaves so many dead and some are saying they could be moving from casualties to deaths, reeling is not really a strong enough word in my view. no, this is one of the most lethal terrorist attacks we've seen and what is really disturbing actually about the story is that this truck packed with explosives that was aimed at the somali foreign ministry had deemed through several checkpoints on its way to the city centre. and it went to the final checkpoint and accelerated as it was stopped the race obviously something wrong in terms of the security services in somalia, the result of u nrest services in somalia, the result of unrest in that region but this is tragic. al-shabaab have set -- not said they have done it yet but it seems extraordinary that got on top of this in a bigger way. how much trade has gone in and money from the

that's ai. ai? is fanuc moving into china is also moving into ai.f it will be done by machine learning. buildng the robots to other robots that are then making the things. carol: what does this mean for the global workforce? megan: in china, wages haven't been threatened so far by the automation. changing atat higher sectors of the economy. when you talk to anyone, the head of google or the head of ibm, they say we envision a future where robots and workers work together. there's huge existential tension. where do these workers move? where does the money go? is it a race to the bottom? fanuc will be leading the way on that. not in a dystopian way, but they are making the robots. carol: it's a great story. thanks. printers making rockets. julia: and the hunt for a pill to replace the treadmill. carol: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ julia: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." you can find us online at businessweek.com and our app. isol: an la-based startup working on a new way to build rocket ships. julia: with 3-d printed technology. >> the

and you can probably have a broad set of ai.: will we see you partnering with other rivals in december? toni: why not? emily: how do you make those calculations? toni: we are customer-focused. it has served us well. we are passionate about the customer-first approach, and we work backwards from that. if we believe it will benefit customers and improve the experience, we will work towards it. emily: is the vision for alexa a center of a bunch of home devices or the home device? toni: we see alexa as being an ambient experience in the home. customers can invoke this experience wherever they are. we also see that going outside of the home. we have announced partnerships with automobile manufacturers. it will be embedded in some of the cars, bmw is one of them. we have a partnership with the wynns. if you're traveling and checking into a hotel, you can experience alexa there. we see it going beyond the home. emily: you see home security as potentially an area of interest? toni: potentially. the auto space or hotel rooms. emily: amaz