a company called deepmind, where the future looks something like this. look at that! pretty good kick on them. >> a good game. >> a soccer match at deepmind looks like fun and games, but here's the thing. humans did not program these robots to play. they learned the game by themselves. >> it's coming up with these interesting different strategies, different ways to walk, different ways to block. >> and they're doing it. they're scoring over and over again. >> this robot here -- >> raia hadsell, vice president of research and robotics, showed us how engineers used motion capture technology to teach the ai program how to move like a human. but on the soccer pitch, the robots were told only that the object was to score. the self-learning program spent about two weeks testing different moves. it discarded those that didn't work, built on those that did, and created all-stars. there's another goal! and with practice, they get better. hadsell told us that, independent from the robots, the ai program plays thousands of games from which it learns and invents its own tactics.

he is the chief executive of google's deepmind, and as such, he has control of one of the most powerful cross, central london. in an interview with the times today, he says ai could lead to breakthroughs in all kinds of areas, the new fuels for space travel, drugs for incurable cancers, better energy storage, quicker and more effective ways of working. so how do we harness the power that al offers without straying into the more dangerous areas we may not yet even perceive? sir nigel shadbolt, a researcher in al, professor at oxford university and executive chair of the open data institute. very welcome to the programme. do you worry that amid all this scaremongering that me and many others have reported on in recent months that we are losing sight of the very many benefits that are there? i the very many benefits that are there? ~ ., �* , ., the very many benefits that are there? ~ ., �*, ., , the very many benefits that are there? ~ . �*, ., , there? i think that's a very good oint. there? i think that's a very good point- look. _ there? i think that's a very good point. look, demis— t

he is the chief executive of google�*s deepmind.e has control of one of the most powerful ai units in the world within the company's offices in kings cross, central london. he says he can envisage a future where ai delivers breakthroughs in all sorts of areas — in energy storage, drug research, delivering solutions to diseases we are still a long way from curing. we have been getting some reaction to all that from sir nigel shadbolt, researcher in al, professor at oxford university. he is the executive chair of the open data institute. health's a good example. drug discovery, prediction of disease, it's already performing at levels to analyse images from ct scans to x—rays. there's a whole range of ways in which ai, which is great at finding patterns, great at producing outcomes, great at finding and applying the rules that might help us build better solutions, can operate to our benefit. health's a good example, but so is climate change, another existential threat. it will be the ai—driven models that help us understand how the cli