james dyson. back in a moment. stay with us.indiscernible] >> french politicians have a starkly enjoyed privacy in their love lives. a recent scandal from francois hollande has pushed his into the public eye. a french tabloid alleges he is having an affair with a french actress, and valerie treierweiler is in hospital, after suffering shock over the allegations. my guest has lived in france and the magnificent apartment for a number of years before returning to the united states. it is painful, isn't it? the question is, this came up with -- this has some of the same ideas. are the french different? certainly it -- then the united states in their attitudes about sexual affairs? >> they are. i think the difference is completely admirable. this is not to say they are not a moral society, this is tolerant in different ways. i have lived in france for a long time. the french attitude about sex and privacy is, when it comes to sex, with children, by force is unacceptable and everything else is human comedy unfolding as the human come

5,127 prototypes and five years later, the world's first bag less vacuum cleaner was born. >> rose: james dyson here, he is best known for the invention of the dyson, a bag less vacuum cleaner, his company also recently created the air blade hair dryer they are market leaders and made him a billionaire his approach to innovation has been simple, he simply said i just think things should work properly it doesn't hurt the products work great and the james dyson foundation pursuing young generation to pursue engineering, i am pleased to have sir james dyson at the table, glad to have you here. >> thank you. >> when you were growing up, what kind of kid were you? were you constantly tink kerg? were you interested in building things? >> no. i come from a very academic background. my father was a classic -- my mother an english teacher so, and i was brought up in the wild, there was no i have there, no engineers and didn't know what an engineer was or even an architect, it was an academic upbringing but i used to destroy things, did have a carn, i built model air planes from the top of the house and

he calls it his fastest and most powerful machine yet. >> thank you for coming, james dyson.ind the cord find a plug use the machine. >> why didn't we have this before. >> you can't make cordless machines powerful but we have by developing interesting electric motors that goes four times faster than anybody else's motor. speed means it can be powerful efficient but very small. >> what is your core confidence? >> we develop new technology. >> you? >> yes, me and my 1,500 engineers and some universities. develop new technology that makes something do something better. and we see problems and difficulties and restrictions and we develop technology to overcome that. and then put it into a product where it performs and works better. >> sir james charlie is on to something with that question about you. you always said as a kid you were different. a different kind of kid. you're always looking for what? and different how? what do you mean? >> i wanted to do something different. when they said does anyone want to play the bassoon, i put up my hand. i always wanted to be different as

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. >> watch the whole interview with sir james dyson on charlie rose at 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.loomberg television. her number when artificial intelligence was the stuff of movies? not anymore. it has gone mainstream. >> artificial intelligence still has a sci-fi ring. it is already behind a lot of our digital lives. from netflix's movie recommendation to spam filtering. >> almost everything you do on facebook or google is -- there is an ai system behind it. he has been studying artificial intelligence for three decades. he is going to be facebook's first head of artificial intelligence. the company's bet on the future and what it plans to do with all the data it has been collecting. >> until now, facebook was focused on infrastructure. now that they are established, the problem is to look forward five years or 15 years. >> there has been a talent grab. >> ai will play an important role in the way we interact with computers. there is a race between companies to establish themselves in this field. >> recommendation engines are nice, the next step in the field is using ai to impro

whole interview with sir james dyson on charlie rose at 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.loomberg television. her number when artificial intelligence was the stuff of movies? not anymore. it has gone mainstream. artificial intelligence still has a sci-fi ring. it is already behind a lot of our digital lives. from netflix's movie recommendation to spam filtering. >> almost everything you do on facebook or google is -- there is an ai system behind it. has been studying artificial intelligence for three decades. he is going to be facebook's first head of artificial intelligence. futurepany's bet on the and what it plans to do with all the data it has been collecting. until now, facebook was focused on infrastructure. now that they are established, the problem is to look forward five years or 15 years. >> there has been a talent grab. play an important role in the way we interact with computers. race between companies to establish themselves in this field. >> recommendation engines are step in the field is using ai to improve a computer's ability to see and hear. >> we feed th

case in point, james dyson tells us his preferred method of firing people. >> it is quite a long time i have fired someone. but unfortunately i did have to do that. it is terrifying. it took me six months to strike up the courage to fire the first person. it still takes a lot of courage to do it. it is so heartrending. it is shocking and dispiriting to the person you are doing it to. the way that i usually do it is say -- it is not working out, is it? it is the truth, most of the time. >> not you, me. >> with that accent and that sweater? i don't know. our guest host for the hour, the cofounder of dialectic capital. how do you fire employees? >> we do shareholder activism. we had a number of ward seats on a company that was sold to private equity. when we come into the situations, often what has to be done is a shrinking of the workforce. there was a situation with that company last year for they had hired one third of their -- fired one third of their r&d task force. neveraid that morale had been better. that it had to happen. because the writing was on the wall. of feeling.hat kind