sir demis hassabis, thank you very much indeed. thank you. life is brilliant!ble — and many that aren't. there's a lot of life out there still left to be discovered and described. and that's a fact — most of the world's flora and fauna are as yet undocumented. but that also means that we don't know what effects we humans and our ever—expanding civilisation are having on most of the world's species. if we start to lose this diversity, you know, and things can't be moved around and they can't adapt, then we sort of have a house of cards that's falling apart. and if we lose the key species in that, then we know we won't be able to restore our ecosystems. cue xprize rainforest — a five—year competition challenging teams from around the world to develop tech to find out what lives where. first prize? $5 million. the mission — to design robots that can autonomously collect environmental dna, edna, from an area of rainforest and also to develop new techniques to analyse the biodiversity contained within that data. environmental dna, simply dna that's being shed off of