Economy of the North | Efficient Energy | Artificial Intelligence | Documentary

foreign [Music] of me that thinks icelanders might not be the brightest of people I mean look at this place it's mostly made up of barren volcanic rock that belges pushing the foul smell of sulfur throughout the countryside animals and plants have avoided this cold hard land and so too should have humans but as we all know humans are a stupid yet wonderfully determined species we often live where we're not welcome over the last hundred years icelanders found a way not just to survive but to thrive they became some of the world's best fishermen they invented their ways out of problems and they even found a way to turn their love of sagas [Applause] Elvish folklore and storytelling into massive businesses this is a place where the land and a never-ending battle with nature has had a profound influence on the country's technology [Music] icelanders they go about their daily lives secure in the knowledge that 100 of their country's energy is renewable [Music] partly thanks to this stuff [Music] Iceland has turned its volcanoes into allies geothermal Pockets to heat homes and water using hydroelectric dams for electricity this energy self-sufficiency is key to Iceland's Prosperity now Iceland hopes to export its green energy smarts some clever Engineers have created a funky rugged wind turbine it'll be used in Iceland to power isolated summer homes and remote industrial equipment and to bring green energy to rural areas overseas we're on a side of the highway about 20 miles outside of Reykjavik you can see this little guy spinning around all day powering telecommunications equipment back in downtown Reykjavik there's smaller versions of this sitting on top of a bus stop they're powering a Wi-Fi base station an advertising board and a smartphone recharging station [Music] in an industrial suburb on the edge of Reykjavik a company called Iceland has set up shop in an abandoned Coal Power Plant to build these turbines by hand it's run by Thor the company's business Chief and sea Thor a former nuclear engineer this type of turbine is called the seven years vertical axis wind turbine vertical access wind turbine for all you turbine noobs out there technically it's an old technology I mean it dates back to the Persian Empire or something we have taken this base design and kind of brought it to the Modern Age with modern materials carbon fiber stainless steel [Music] we've made it really really strong we have engineered and cut the plates so that the turbo never goes on overspin and we just done the system so it's really really simple and therefore we can keep the price down but it also can take really really harsh weather and weather is a serious problem this is what can happen to a conventional wind turbine when excessive wind speeds hit in Iceland windmills can last for about three years before the weather does them in the shape of the ice wind turbines allows them to function in low wind and to stop from spinning out of control in high wind and beyond that they just look cool people when they look at it they don't realize what it is [Music] they just think it's a sculpture or something they're not thinking about this as an ugly energy production price so we started putting more emphasis on the design itself how it looks all the curves and stuff like that Iceland has trials running throughout this country and expects to begin selling its turbines worldwide later this year foreign is anxious to test out Iceland's Ingenuity on a bigger stage we've been isolated for a long time and I think we're fought for a long time for several different things and this is just part of a fighting inventing new things and going new ways the truth of the matter is that unlike most people I didn't visit Iceland to take in the countryside or find the first Puffin of the Season all of that stuff was the garnish on my trip [Music] I came here for urban chaos drunken joy and an explosion of raw emotions I came here for the cultural phenomenon known as Eve band Fest buckle up because things are about to get weird really weird nerds of them making an aunt pilgrimage to Reykjavik to celebrate Eve online a massive multiplayer online game that takes place in outer space for three days The Gamers come together dress up like their favorite characters shop from an endless supply of Swag we should buy one of these and get a sneak peek of what's on the horizon there's also a massive live tournament to decide who will become one of the main rulers of the eve Universe we shall coronate our new leader and the losers shall ritually sacrifice themselves there's no going to last for much longer here trading bloat for blown here in the final match the captain goes down I know it is [Applause] Walk The Halls here and you'll quickly find yourself face to face with a wide variety of geek species how many hours would you play a day I'm logged into Eve probably six hours a day seven days a week if I don't have other plans we're logging in at least two or three times a week and joining fleets and killing people [Music] it never stops and if you miss a day then you're going to have to make it up the next day [Music] some people are the nicest people you've ever met are ruthless like thugs and bandits [Music] at its most basic level Eve online is a war game set in space people build their characters from scratch hop in ships like this band Together by The Thousands to Forum armies and fight battles that can take months even years you've got its start back in 2003 and today it's evolved into a vast Universe nearly as rich and complex as the real world with a completely developed political system and social hierarchy there's a complex economy too based on billions of transactions and lots of manual labor all the ships all the ammunition all the parts of all the pieces that go on your ship the drones the guns all of that was built by someone and since there's a lot of things in Eve it's huge before players can zoom off to battle they must spend weeks mining materials to build ships and weapons this Titan is one of the largest class ships it can take six weeks to make and is over 8.5 miles long coalitions spend years obtaining their space gear and they can lose it all with one bad decision what's the lowest feeling you've ever had the lowest feeling I've ever had was losing my own Titan there's nothing like losing about six thousand real world dollars in Virtual equipment you know in in you know in the blink of an eye most games of this type split people up into groups of a couple thousand players and give everyone missions to accomplish not Eve from the outset it's been a game where all of the players inhabit a single universe and they collectively decide how the game should be played this makes Eve a never-ending story a spectacular communal experience so all 400 000 some odd people who play this game we all are playing together you get to know the same people and we have space celebrities we have space politicians people know who they are if you're a hero or a villain and Eve half a million people know your name know your reputation and will either try to take you down or follow you you know as a result of that what's your status lots of games offer people an escape but none more so than Eve the flaccid become great warriors the shy turn into socialites Eve is about becoming something bigger or at least different than what you are in real life there will be consequences [Laughter] hi hi my name is Charles White I play next Singularity on EVE Online and uh the creature I am wearing is an in-game item okay and it's called a feto okay what's your role in the game well the because I'm an older guy I just started giving advice on on the comms and the players promoted me to the position of Pope of Eve online so I became the space Pope I give blessings I've done two weddings real world weddings uh I've blessed like six babies already I would change a command often goes the way that I believe most do you will have wolf pack 10 works as a mechanic by day but when he logs on he becomes a fleet commander with hundreds of obedient soldiers ready to follow his orders I've personally led a little over 700 some people have led thousands do you feel like you have two lives I don't feel like I had two lives I feel like I have one life that is very complicated I try not to separate what I do in Eve from reality because it has an impact and at the same time I try not to let Eve become so real that I give up things in you know my regular day job and my life and seeing my real world friends for a game [Music] a few players is obsessive online gaming nerds really easy but that would do a disservice to the depth of the game and The Fan Fest experience the bonds that are made and generated they become members of the kind of like an extended family I've been here four times and we see the same guys here like it's your buddy now because you've been flying with them for years and coming here honestly anytime that I get to go out and just hang out with my nerd Brethren it's it's been pretty fun [Music] I think you'll play Eaves for the rest of your life probably I don't ever imagine not playing you so there's enough in this game to keep you interested there are so many things I don't know at this point like if you asked me about Wormhole space I have no idea how it works I know they exist I know I can go through wormholes but I never lived in there I've never even seen what you can do in there there's so much to Eve such a big world to be a part of when you're done spending a day hanging out with your fellow space Warlords there's only one thing left to do [Music] this is a tradition at Fan Fest I think it starts at nine o'clock ends at five but we'll see if we make it watching these Gamers party with each other something I'll never forget but there's something so human and endearing about seeing people in their element feeling free to express themselves and damn it it's hard not to join in having met some of the eve players you may have noticed a trend the game tends to attract smart passionate often devious people managing these people is hard sort of like hurting deranged cats that have been doing lots of drugs for 13 years this management burden has been the job of CCP games the Icelandic game Studio that invented Eve since Eve has few rules CCP has had to work hand in hand with the players to shape the game and introduce new stuff to buy and new places to go some of the key input from both sides arrives at Fan Fest where important things like Wormhole territory get debated are you concerned about how hard it is for us to roll wormholes at this point do you feel like it's about the right balance the depth of this two-way relationship is unique in the gaming industry welcome to IFA Fest 2016. one of the key people who shaped the vision of Eve is ccp's longtime CEO Hilmar Peterson Hilmar is something of a philosopher when it comes to Iceland science fiction and the role that Eve may play in nothing less than the evolution of the human species why does it make so much sense that this game started in Iceland when you're a kid in Iceland you develop a clear sense that the country is here to kill you and if you don't pay attention you're just gonna die where you have volcanoes and blizzards and avalanches and God knows what you really have to band together against the elements [Music] Eve started out from humble beginnings on computer savvy icelanders raised the money to build Eve by selling a board game called hedgefield where the danger game in English which ended up being a Smash Hit [Music] funds in hand they leapt from the dining room table to the Stars building a beautiful and iconic interpretation of life in space Hilmar sees it Eve might now provide a road map for an Interstellar Society we very much think about the game as a construct to inspire the Manifest Destiny of mankind which is to grow Beyond this planet so we kind of look at the online the closest thing you have today to live in space so and we believe by giving hundreds of thousands and millions of people that experience and that dream we will bring closer to us the the desire and drive to make it actually concretely happen it's a new game called Valkyrie pure blow Em Up High action space war game built for the virtual reality headsets just coming to Market investors have recently poured money into CCP betting that it will figure out how to merge the best parts of Eve and Valkyrie and create the first meaningful virtual social network where do you see all this technology heading what we wanted to do with Valkyrie was to do something way more immersive something like immediately impactful on your kind of emotional state take them down Nice Shot nice job all right if there's that differently because it's more slow paced and methodical there's more to your brain than to your heart and ultimately the dream is to kind of merge these two concepts [Music] no more didn't invade Eve but this guy did he's Rainier Hardison one of the three co-creators of the game he explained the origins of Eve to me near a monument located beside the Reykjavik Marina it was built to honor the eve players with their gamer handles etched into the base all during Fan Fest people come to find their names and pay homage to the game people feel very passionate about this and this strange thing about it when you when you log into it it doesn't feel like you're playing a game it feels like you're logging into a real world and these people feel it too and the reason is because it's it's really about human you know it's about humans interacting it's about human emotion and you know whatever makes us human why do you think we will get all that at their jobs and then come and work another job and seek to feel that at home after I would say it's kind of a you know it's in a strange Twisted way it's a it's a utopian perfect world it's written with warrant strife and everything but everyone can you know aspire to to be something big very end of Fan Fest ECP employees celebrate with a raucous party at the harpa concert hall it's one final booze and heavy metal infused time together before they go home and return to the doldrums of regular life [Applause] [Music] there's a lyrical quality to so much about this place to the way people weave stories into their daily lives to the way in which they seem to celebrate suffering and to the way in which they approach technology and fold it into their culture this country is a testament to the Triumph of the human will and to the power of imagination it's the kind of place where the surroundings beg you to get lost in your thoughts and then smile deep down in your soul [Music] this fall breaks out in Canada I'm reminded of all the beauty innocence and gun-free fun available from our neighbors to the north [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's the Majesty of Toronto [Applause] vast hockey race [Applause] and gallons of maple syrup that you can chug openly and guilt-free for this maple syrup is pure and nourishing [Applause] changing of the seasons also happens to be the perfect time to encounter one of Canada's most prized creatures the artificial intelligence nerd ever since people first came up with the idea of computers they've dreamed of imbuing them with artificial intelligence I am a smart I have a very fine brain that's the most remarkable thing I've ever seen the AI is just a computer that is able to mimic or simulate uh human thought or human behavior within that there's a subset called machine learning that it's now the underpinning of what is most exciting about AI by allowing computers to learn how to solve problems on their own machine learning has made a series of breakthroughs that once seemed nearly impossible it's the reason computers can understand your voice spot a friend's face in a photo and steer a card and it's the reason people are actively talking about the arrival of human-like AI and whether that would be a good thing for a horrific end of days thing many people made this moment possible but one figure Towers Above the Rest I've come to the University of Toronto to see the man they call the Godfather of modern artificial intelligence Jeff Hinton [Music] because of a back condition Jeff Hinton hasn't been able to sit down for more than 12 years I hate standing I'd much rather say time but if I sit down I have a distance sorry well at least now standing desks are fashionable and yeah but I was ahead I was standing where I was standing when they were the fashionable can't sit in the car or on a bus Hinton walks everywhere the walk says a lot about Hinton and his resolved for nearly 40 years Hinton has been trying to get computers to learn like people do a quest almost everyone thought was crazy or at least hopeless right up until the moment it revolutionized the field Google thinks this is the future of the company Amazon thinks the vision company Apple thinks his future company my own Department thinks this does probably nonsense who we shouldn't be doing anymore so I took everybody into it except my own Department Chef Hansen pretty early on became obsessed with this idea of figuring out how the mind works he started off getting into physiology the anatomy of how the brain worked then he got into psychology and then finally he settled on more of a computer science approach to modeling the brain and got into artificial intelligence the feeling is if you want to understand a really complicated device like a brain you should build one I mean you could look at cars and you could think you could understand cars when you try and build a car you suddenly discover that there's this stuff that has to go under the hood otherwise it doesn't work yeah as Jeff was starting to think about these ideas he got inspired by some AI researchers across the pond [Music] Mike rosenblatt 1950s developed what he called a perceptron and it was a neural network a Computing system that would mimic the brain the basic idea is a collection of small units called neurons these are little Computing units but they're actually modeled on the way that the human brain does its computation they take incoming data like we do from our senses and they actually learn so the neural net can learn to make decisions over time Brad's Hope was that you could feed a neural network a bunch of data like pictures of men and women and it would eventually learn how to tell them apart just like humans do there was just one problem it didn't work very well rosenblatt his neural network was the single layer of neurons and it was limited in what it could do extremely Limited and a colleague of his wrote a book in the late 60s that showed these limitations and it kind of put the whole area of research into a deep freeze for a good 10 years no one wanted to work in this area they were sure it would never work well almost no one it was just obvious to me that it was the right way to go the brain's a big neural network and so it has to be that stuff like this can work because it works in our brains but there's just never any doubt about that you know what do you think it was inside of you that kept you wanting to pursue this when everyone else was giving up just that you thought it was the right direction to go know that everyone else was wrong okay Hinton decides he's got an idea of how these neural Nets might work and he's going to pursue it no matter what for a little while he's bouncing around research institutions in the U.S he kind of gets fed up that most of them are funded by the defense department and he starts looking for somewhere else he can go he suddenly hears the Canada might be interested in funding artificial intelligence and that was very attractive that I could go off to this civilized town and just get on with it so I came to the University of Toronto and then in the mid-80s we discovered how to remain more complicated neural Nets so they could solve those problems that the simple ones couldn't solve he and his collaborators developed a multi-layered neural network a deep neural network and this started to work in a lot of ways but again they hit a ceiling [Music] through the 90s into the 2000s Jeff was one of only a handful of people on the planet who are still pursuing this technology good morning he would show up at academic conferences and be banished to the back rooms he was treated as really like a pariah but Jeff was consumed by this and couldn't stop he just kept pursuing the idea that computers could learn until about 2006 when the world catches up to hinton's ideas [Music] competed with Arnold Foster and now he's behaving like I thought it would behave in the mid 80s it's solving everything the arrival of super fast chips and the massive amounts of data produced on the internet gave hinton's algorithms a magical boost suddenly computers could identify what was in an image then they could recognize speech and translate from one language to another by 2012 words like neural Nets and machine learning were popping up on the front page of the New York Times next up we have Professor Jeffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto thank you [Applause] for hits in this is obviously a really Redemptive moment now he's basically a technology celebrity and for Canada it's the country's moment as well they have more AI researchers than just about any other place on the planet and the quest now is to see what these guys can do starting companies and pushing the technology forward I'm going to set out on a journey across Canada to see the best in Canadian AI technology and to get a feel for how far the technology has come and how far it still has to go [Music] here is a city that gets right at the central tension of Modern Life and the unfolding AI Revolution [Applause] it's Montreal a place filled with beauty and Old World charms that asked you to move slowly through its streets [Music] chill for a while reflect and think Deep Thoughts at the same time it's one of the world's top AI research centers students flock here from all over the globe to get deep with machine learning and to take Jeff hinton's ideas and figure out how to turn them into products we all use to see just how successful they've been look no further than your pocket all this stuff started out as hardcore computer science but over the last five years AI has invaded our everyday lives your smartphone is packed full of AI powered apps including something like Google translate that lets you point your phone at a magazine that's written in French and read it as if you were a local Engineers have been trying to get computers to translate text like this for decades but it was Jeff's neural Nets that finally made it possible thanks Jeff and it's not just your smartphone neural networks are heading for the open road off we go be my friend Stefan the head of Montreal's Tesla fan club I'm driving a Tesla for a little bit more than four years so you have people asking you for rides all the time yes maybe that's because of his Fancy Pants autopilot Tesla's semi-autonomous driving system that kicks in when road conditions are right so that's it autopilot's on yes and it's driving by itself so we need to pay attention but we don't have to drive yeah it's crazy self-driving cars are packed full of cameras sensors and radar when teamed with computer vision neural Nets it's this technology that lets the cars build a picture of the world the technology has a long way to go but this Tesla can monitor all the cars around it switch lanes and park all by itself thanks Jeff so you're living in the future yeah you know when you try it once it's very difficult to do without it because I just can be relaxed and we can drive like this there's a stop sign so that's why we still need to pay attention [Music] a big part of hinton's Legacy lies Beyond these examples of AI in the world he's also inspired a legion of disciples spreading the good word of neural Nets yahshua bengio is a professor at the University of Montreal he's one of the researchers who glommed on to hinton's ideas when it seemed to make little sense to do so [Music] and together they've come up with many of the key Concepts behind modern AI you guys worked on this stuff through the 80s 90s the 2000s and then it just seemed like this totally went from computer science and research to we see it everywhere in our lives are you know or even you surprised what's happened the last five years that it really is like sitting on all our phones and the rate at which the progress and the Industrial Products have been coming out is totally something we didn't expect even now it's hard to predict where are we going is it going to slow down or are we going to continue with this exponential increase it's thanks to yahshua that Montreal is full of top-notch AI graduate Talent in turn has brought Tech giants like Google and Facebook to tell along with their ample checkbooks [Music] to me it seems like if you're good at AI you can make two three hundred thousand dollars a year this is crazy to see how much these guys get paid now a million dollars is something quite common as a salary have you ever had a country offer you an incredible amount of money to come set up a lab there not a country but yeah companies yeah foreign has rejected the lucrative offers of big neural net he remains committed to the Ivory Towers of Academia which is a better fit for his philosophical approach to AI you've got guys like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking that sometimes paint this technology in a very very dark light that it could run amok and start doing things on its own but you know what do you feel when you hear people say things like that I'm not concerned about technology running amok of the Terminator scenario I think is not very credible and I also believe that if we're able to build machines that are as smart as us they also smart enough to understand our values and to understand our moral system and and so I in a way that's good for us now I think there are real concerns which is essentially misuse of AI to influence people's minds it's already happening with the political advertising yeah I mean we've already seen like the stuff from Facebook so I think we should be careful about this and try to regulate the use of AI in places where it's morally wrong ethically wrong I think we just should just ban it and make it you know illegal it's comforting that yahshua has these concerns but hop down the road from the University in reality but what's left of it becomes Messier this tiny room is the home to a startup called lyreburg it was founded by yahshua's former students and has built an app that can clone your voice are you speaking about this new algorithm to copy voices this is huge it can make us say anything now really anything [Music] one of its founders Mexican Pat Jose he taught me the art of the club so you'll need to record yourself for a few minutes of audio thousands of letters danced across the amateur author's screen when you start to eat like this something is the matter you guys better quit politics and take in washing I don't know where that one came from okay so create my digital voice now creating your digital voice takes at least one minute one minute my God yeah so before to create some artificial voice of someone you would need to record yourself for at least eight hours test your voice all right so now I get the types of the yeah so the moment of the truth okay Birds AI is Magic after I'm done typing oh I'm gonna spell better any words I put into the app can be played back in my digital voice and here's the crazy thing even words I never actually said in the first place artificial intelligence technology seems to be advancing very quickly should we be afraid I mean I can definitely hear my voice in there that's that is that's really interesting I just picked those words at random and I definitely did not say some of them and it's like Flawless and being able to sort of pick from just about any word and manufacture it [Music] hello world is the best Joy I have ever seen [Music] this technology seems sweet lends itself to all manner of trickery [Applause] I've popped back to my hotel to test out the library technology a little bit and you can see some really obvious ways that this could be abused this is this is fake Donald Trump talking the United States is considering in addition to other options stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea and then you could picture somebody taking over your voice and creating some Mayhem in your personal life now to really put my computer voice to the test I am going to call my dear sweet mother and see if she recognizes me ah what are you guys up to today I have any electricity early this morning and we're just hanging around the house I'm just finishing up work and waiting for the boys to get home I think I'm coming down with a virus oh wow you why you I was messing around with you you were talking to a computer is that scary or good it's scary if it was something really important I do now isn't it I don't know it sounds like you is it yes [Music] the real artificial intelligence weirdos in Canada live here in Edmonton [Music] this is a large but very very cold and very very flat city that is more or less in the middle of nowhere it's the kind of place that has a giant butter vault five the lean winter months [Music] on how these conditions bring out interesting traits in people ask anyone like this guy from the Edmondson tourist center well Edmonton's uh one of those cities that isn't you know automatically listed in the top cities in Canada in terms of size or scale or or notice even but it's always had a really neat quality to it of that Western independent spirit that you see very much in in Alberta in general combined with a conscience and a thoughtfulness over at the University of Alberta some of the most far out AI research in the world is taking place the man I'm here to see is the University's very own AI Godfather Rich Sutton rich is considered one of the great revolutionary thinkers in AI if you are not Canadian I am Canadian but not by birth uh no I was born in the U.S but now I'm just Canadian okay and what brought you to Canada the politics I wanted to get away from difficult times in the United States the United States was invading other countries in 2003 when I came here and I didn't care for all that thank you Sutton entered the field of AI in the mid-80s and like Jeff Hinton and Joshua bengio he was a big believer in neural networks but Sutton has a different idea about how to further the technology unlike Henson's method of feeding neural networks Reams and reams of data and telling them what to do Sutton wants them to learn more naturally from experience an approach called reinforcement learning well reinforcement learning it's like what animals do and what people do we try several things the things that work best you keep doing those and things that don't work out so well you stop doing them and how do you teach a computer all you need is a sense the computer has to have a sense of what's good and what's bad and so you give it a special signal called the reward if the reward is high that means it's good the word is low that means it's bad see reinforcement learning in action I found Marlos an industrious young Brazilian who's created an AI to play his video games for him his algorithm plays the game thousands of times and gradually learns from experience how to do better so the goal of this game is that you are this yellow blob then what you have to do is that you have to get as many potions as you can while avoiding harpies and this is like the AI going at this for the first time it's day I run it for the first time so it just bumps into things if it gets points it's happy if it dies it's unhappy yes and the AI starts to figure out that maybe what I want to do is to collect these potions and avoid the harpies and now we can look at AI that has ran for 5000 games okay and this is what it looks like you can tell that it's smarter about its strategy yes and then what happens if you run it 500 000 times oh we we got you this superhuman performance level [Applause] though notching a high score is the noblest of Pursuits reinforcement learning has turned out to have all kinds of other applications it's behind the algorithm that recommends movies and TV shows on Netflix and Amazon it beat the world champion go player a previously thought impossible for a computer soon it could read your brain waves and determine whether you have a mental disorder but for Sutton all that is just the beginning we are trying to make real intelligence we're trying to recreate human intelligence humans are our example he sees reinforcement learning as the path to what futurists call The Singularity the moment when our AI Creations light up and surge past human level intelligence do you have a date for The Singularity or so they give you uh it's a it's a quite broad probability distribution in the median is it 20 40. that means equal chance of being before or after 2040. okay the rationale goes like this uh by 2030 we'll have the hardware so give guys like me another 10 years to figure out the algorithms yeah software to go with the hardware to do it it's going to be exciting where we're going if 2040 seems like a long time to wait to meet a smart robot do not fret over in the experimental wing of the University there are coeds hard at work blurring the line between humans and machines are you human of course not but that shouldn't keep us from chatting case in point homegrown edmontonian genius Corey Mathewson tell me about this guy a little bit or yeah sure so this is blueberry on blueberry I've deployed The Improv system so there's an artificial improv system running on blueberry right now yes that's right Corey does improv comedy with a robot I've been doing improv longer than I've been doing Computing science I've been doing it for 12 years and I thought you know there's no more natural convergence than taking some of these state-of-the-art systems and putting them up on stage [Music] the moon and the Universe I keep thinking it was like a ventriloquist sort of this is like a new age that's a really good way to put it yeah strange Twist on it the piece that's different is that I don't know what it will say blueberry I I created you I downloaded a voice into your brain so that you could perform in front of these people to give blueberry the power of surreal Canadian improv Corey made use of some tech that should be familiar by now a neural network step one he feeds the network the dialogue from a bunch of movies 102 000 movies to be exact all the movies every movie for a hundred years and that's just so it can learn language see how somebody responds to somebody else that's exactly right yeah it builds kind of a language model [Music] he uses running to train the network [Music] British time to put this wannabe kid in the hall to the test there we go start improvising okay campers we're gonna get ready for a real baseball game grab your gloves and grab your baseball bats let's get out there especially you Franklin of course I will not be much longer okay okay well why aren't you ready for the match come on Franklin you know how I feel about you but you got to keep your head in the game right now [Music] oh Jesus put down the bat Franklin what are you doing you have nothing to hide that song I've got nothing to hide look this is all I am okay that's great that's how it works obviously some of the responses are a little bit weird but then it's really funny because then as you're going along it did hit a couple things perfectly and and then it's like yeah I mean it's extra hilarious because of course yeah now it's going blueberry may not be ready for its Second City audition just yet but Corey has a higher purpose making AI relatable there is a fear in society of AI so we are kind of humanizing this AI where we're taking it down a peg we're saying don't be afraid of this Tech look at how cute it is look at how kind of naive it is filters you've done it again blueberry yes isn't there a flip side to that though then you make it cute and and then people start to accept it and you know then then we wake up and I mean I I don't think that will happen in my time you may be near not so near evidence of this oddly beautiful place keep pushing the technology they just might create something alarmingly human-like one day for Rich Sutton it's not a question of whether we'll get there but weather will be able to accept our mechanized brethren our society will be will be challenged you know it's just like every time you know our black people people are women people we will do the same thing with robots eventually uh are they allowed to own property are they allowed to earn an income or do they have to be owned by somebody but a robot's obviously about a person laughs right no [Music] for my last stop I returned to Toronto home to 2.8 million people one very tall tower and of course the Godfather himself inside the system there's lots of little processes which are a little bit like brain cells they work he may be an import but Jeff Hinton has done something truly exceptional for Toronto he's turned this city into an AI Mecca where AI conferences like this one seem to take place daily we are enormously thankful to Canadians for inventing all this stuff because we now use it throughout our entire business record that he owns that Google owes Canada that was a mistake the tech industry is full of people who adore AI [Music] it's like Elon mus K even Hawking who said well today I might be the end of us consider such dystopia in the proper light I've come to Toronto's geekiest bar hello George to encase myself in this steel container with George devorski he's a writer for Gizmodo and an AI philosopher people since we're in the apocalyptic bar what is the the con case around AI what what's what's the nastiest scenario that everybody's worried about unfortunately there's there's no shortage of nasty scenarios and this I think this is what makes artificial intelligence such a scary thing is all the different ways that it can go wrong it can be everything from an accident you know where we just didn't think it through we gave a very powerful computer instructions to do something we thought we explained it articulately we thought we gave it a concrete goal and it completely took a different path than we thought it would in such a way that it actually caused some great damage I'm sure you've heard the old paper clip example where your paper clip manufacturer and you say hey we need lots of paper clips and because the artificial intelligence has so much reach and so much power it actually starts to go about converting all of the matter and all the molecules on the planet into paper clips before you know it we've now converted the entire Cosmos into paperclips it's a crazy scenario but it's an illustrative scenario we can't be dismissive of the perils I think that's exceptionally dangerous and I don't think it's too early to start raising the alarm Bells about it being turned into clippy sounds awful but fear not we'll have years to ease into that sort of suffering as AI steadily plucks off one job after another [Music] the first to go of course will likely be the always screwed Factory workers which brings us to Suzanne gildert a budding AI Overlord and founder of robotic startup Kindred AI [Music] tell me about these guys so these are research prototypes so they're some of the first robots we built at Kindred they tend to work with small robots it's a bit like if you imagine a child growing up and it breaks a lot of things now imagine if the child was six feet tall when it had the brain of a six-month-old it would be a terrible terribly dangerous how many of these robots have ever slapped you I I have been hit in the face by robots a couple of times and it's that way Suzanne seems nice enough she makes exotic digital art and she loves cats to the point where she's built a robotic Fleet of them for the office one I believe it's called pinkfoot it's a quadruped robot Loosely based on a cat anatomy although it's not a very highly faithful representation yet and then when you were growing up you would build things as well yeah that's correct yeah so I was really enthralled by Electronics it I guess most little girls would be looking at trays of beads and things and I was looking at trays of like resistors and capacitors and little components but having the same kind of reaction to them [Music] but don't be fooled by the hobby electronics and the cute catbots [Music] uzan is a keen businesswoman and Kindred has recently embarked on its first commercial venture what's going on here is we have a bank of robots that are learning so they are continuously running uh picking up objects these would run all day all day all night powered by neural network These Arms can do something that's very easy for a human but very hard for a bot pick up objects of different shapes and put them down most factories still use people to do that sort of thing lots and lots of people today everyone's shopping on e-commerce thousands and thousands of different types of objects shapes textures weights how do you pick that up right now as humans you have millions of humans in warehouses just like picking up things and putting it into another location so we're teaching our robots how to do that oh what's the hard part it's figuring out what's a belt what's a shirt or it's just how to grasp it yeah exactly it's very hard to pick it up right so things will show up in any shape right and you got to figure out how to pick it up without dropping it put it in the location so it takes a lot of training part of that training involves of all things humans robot pilots who manually control the arms while the AI watches and learns the finer points of grabbing [Music] is there something Grim about the human training there and yeah it's not good to take people's jobs away but this kind of Technology coming into the workforce should make us start thinking about how we're going to pay people in the future because AI is not just going to automate you know manual labor jobs it's going to automate things like doctors and lawyers and accountants very soon so I think there's going to be issues there's going to be a lot of disruption Suzanne is a realist but she's also an optimist vision of the future robots won't be mindless competitors to Human citizens like the rest of us one of the crazy ideas that you talk about was you've got a robot and it's working in a factory and then it's got to go maybe it gets paid a wage and it goes to buy lithium ion batteries to keep it going why would that have to happen I mean if you're having a physical body they will have a lot of physical needs just like we have you might have to go to the repair shop to get like a motor look tab or something like that and they'll have to pay someone to do that I think they'll just be contributing to our economy in the same way we do and if they have brains like us they'll want to explore new things they've never seen before they'll want to learn things they'll want to perhaps rest so that their mind has time to consolidate all this new information so if you've tried to picture it in my head this is the robot workers they go home and sit on the couch and watch TV after work it is I don't see why not I probably watch cat videos it's hard to tell sometimes if Suzanne is laughing with us they're at us but she's not alone in her cautious optimism for the future there's always a sense that you know technology can be either used for good or used for bad I'm reassured that that Canada is part of it in terms of trying to set us on the right path on the whole being responsible and thoughtful about the power we're gaining by research and learning is the right trend line and I don't think ai's automatically doomed to some dystopian outcome [Music] we're told that politicians will come up with policies that address massive job loss and prevent horrific inequality between the classes and we're told that these guys will take so long to become human-like that we need not be afraid for a while [Applause] the truth though is that we're turning ourselves over to the unknown here so you know fingers crossed eventually I think we will become the AIS we will become the intelligent machines we will understand how things can be smart and we can deliberately create them so it's you might think of it as making a new generation new kinds of people humanity is continuing to evolve and why wouldn't enhanced people or even design people be the next step in humanity it's really hard to predict the future I think there's going to be all sorts of things happen we didn't expect [Music] but there's one thing that we can predict this technology is going to change everything [Music] hi goodbye good night goodbye once I power you down that's it I'll never you again yeah [Applause] [Laughter] this place seems like make-believe or perhaps the fever dream of a design blogger no one in their right mind would build a hotel in a forest you can stick the rooms up in some trees but then again it sort of fits perfectly because this is Sweden and The Treehouse Hotel oozes sweet it's nature fornicating with functional design and creative thinking this is the UFO and really this is why we came to Sweden to get Wi-Fi out here from Stockholm to the Arctic Circle swedes have pumped out dazzling Tech infused products that put a new Twist on what it means to be modern entertaining and useful okay here's what you probably know about Stockholm it's beautiful it's full of gorgeous unassuming people and it's almost disturbingly clean what you don't know about Stockholm is that outside of Silicon Valley it's the world leader in fostering Tech addiction Spotify Skype and the makers of Minecraft and Candy Crush all got their start here the swedes the supposedly cool passion challenge people know how to tap into our desires and make simple things we can't escape [Music] I started my journey at epicenter a nerd Lounge located in the heart of Stockholm any place trying to establish its Tech cred needs a spot like this people come here to fiddle with their robots hash out their techno-utopian fantasies over beer and if they're totally nuts insert a chip underneath the skin on their wrists that lets them open the epicenter door hello there my name is Phil hat about those robots [Music] my reptile brand is telling me that this thing is alive and then my intellect tells me no I know it's just a piece of plastic and some software we've stumbled upon something really super interesting I think [Music] they're trying to make mechanical creatures and computer interfaces appear and act more like humans hi my name is Ashley hello Ashley nice to meet you I am a socially intelligent robot it's nice to meet you as well nice shirt thank you we want to build a system that can interact very fluently with humans understand their social signals their emotions their attention States there's a phenomenon known as The Uncanny Valley it's that queasy feeling you get when a robot or computer interface looks real but not real enough the brain's behind fur hat these two hardcore academics think they're on their way to solving that problem and making robots less nauseating we come from a background of human human communication understand how humans interact with each other is this social layer that is on top of the typical AI if they can push the technology forward fur hat could end up as the face of Siri or Amazon's Alexa it might keep Lonely People company do you think I look good or be the thing you yell at when checking in for a flight at the airport can you walk us through like each little piece of course for that is a main piece here she's got a hat and a wig and a skull and a mouse as far as robots go fur Hat's design is really simple it's as easy as taking a mask on and off and then the mask is magnetically attached so you can unplug the mouse and then you can attach the different mask a different personality to it and then it needs to be calibrated so that you can get the right I do want to see the alien baby what did you say there is a facial animation system you know like the ones you do you have in games and animated movies yeah so it's all software based and then we use a micro projector to project that animation onto a mask so you get very accurate eye movement gestures facial expressions lip animation I can look like a woman and sound like a woman like an avatar that's that was pretty good but I think the world has been really waiting for robots at home to interact with you know to see them in a human natural habitat where we don't see any robots at the moment one day fur hat might read bedtime stories to your kid I'd say it's at the nightmare stage of that Journey but the product has gone on sale for use by universities which are busy tweaking it to ensure sweet dreams in the years to come you're boring why would you say that to me you would look strange or to sling insults at handsome TV hosts how about beer Sweden's rise as a tech power did not happen by accident the country's Advanced industrialization is due largely to Swedish inventions like the dial telephone and to high standards in engineering starting in the late 1990s the government made a huge investment in Broadband laying Fiber Optic Cables throughout the country then it began subsidizing PCS so every citizen could have a modern computer with a super fast internet connection but this wasn't all about making a sterile nerd Factory the swedes also designed their education system to emphasize creativity and experimentation and to mix the Arts and Sciences one curious offshoot of the social engineering was that Sweden created a nation of pirates that generation of tech infused youngsters set out to Pirate software music movies anything really and did so with astonishing skill file sharing services like Kaza and uTorrent started here and so did an entire political party literally called the pirate party one of the Pirates was this bald Beauty Daniel Eck hey man hey great to see you nice to see you back ran uTorrent and ended up on the wrong side of the music labels then he pulled a 180 and decided to try and become the music industry's Savior by starting a new less Steely company Spotify it was Swedish Simplicity the turned Spotify into a huge hit people could find stream and download songs with such ease that neither consumers nor the labels could resist the service almost every morning X stops off at saturnus a trendy Cafe in the ooster mom neighborhood of Stockholm he engages in fika a Swedish snacking ritual that takes place a few times a day should we dig in yeah dig in please you like him but it was good it's it's um seems more wholesome than like a Cinnabon yeah so you got it set off on the path of doing Tech and music so really the only thing that was important in my family was that you learn how to play music I got a guitar when I was like three four okay but yeah I got the computer when I was like five and uh for me like in the beginning it was really all about games and just fun playing from that point I I kind of realized like hey these games are boring how hard would it be to try to fix the game yeah um and so I started coding games when I was like seven or eight or something like that it's kind of amazing that you've been on this trajectory yeah you know your whole life yeah I've never had a normal job when I grew up like I didn't realize how you made money starting something yourself or investing money or like that was just a totally foreign concept outside of Silicon Valley Sweden has the highest per capita number of unicorns which are startups valued over one billion dollars there's a tension that comes with all this new money and fame like much of Scandinavia Sweden operates under a cultural code of conduct known as yantela it's a philosophy that demands people not think too highly of themselves I was wondering if people recognize you out on the street um yeah I mean they do but because this is like Sweden no one really comes up except if it's like 10 p.m and they've had a beer or two cut to 2016 in this way of living finds itself in conflict with tech millionaires boozing it up at clubs and hyping their tight little apps act knows the situation as well as anyone you know by the time you're 21 I mean you were a millionaire essentially right because you had sold a couple businesses and done very well for yourself and then it sounds like you went through sort of a period where I don't know if showing off is the right word but you were living oh yeah going to clubs and I was driving fast cars and when I looked back to it I'm sort of almost ashamed of myself because it was like you know it was um uh today I realized that it was a huge sort of period of insecurity um it was a lot of fun don't get me wrong um but it's it's like not who I am and I never know like as an outsider if we make too much of all this but this idea that um you don't want to stand out in Sweden or Scandinavia and you do stand out when you when you start making billions of dollars it's kind of hard to uh yeah but it is changing I mean if you walk around in the city now like I see like Ferraris Lamborghinis like there's quite a lot of that here which is not really part of what the fabric of how it used to be okay to really contemplate yantullah I took part in another Swedish tradition known as standing pensively against a wall completely aware that I was being photographed for my own TV show where Are you supposed to put your head up here are some of the rules of yantela [Music] you are not to think you are anything special you are not to think you're as good as we are you're not to think you're smarter than we are you're not to convince yourself that you're better than we are you're not to think you know more than we do not to think you're more important than you're not to think you're good at anything you're not to laugh at us you're not to think anyone cares about you you're not to think you can teach us anything ah that was refreshing with the brainwashing portion of the program over it was time to live a little we decided to get out of the cold dine at a traditional Swedish restaurant and hit the town it'll be just about me getting you guys lost I'm Ashley thank you Henry all right nice to meet you man from America oh promised country I'll tell you this about yantullah it gives way after a few cocktails I'm going to mix this with the lemon and uh I don't know what it's called in Sweden they call it yeah and that's when the other part of the Swedish character the friendly joyful lubricated part goes on full display foreign near the end of the night it was time for my famous disappearing cigarette magic trick [Music] I guess it and my man bun need some work [Music] as the startup scene is in Stockholm Sweden's technology muscle lies in the northern part of the country had 560 miles up from Stockholm and you'll end up in lulio a picturesque city of 70 000 people wedged between the Gulf of Bosnia and the Arctic Circle for centuries lulio has been a cultural and economic Hub of this region but what really has lulio buzzing these days is the arrival of Facebook which opened a data center on the outskirts of the city in 2013. at 300 000 square feet it's one of the largest computer centers ever built a place you need a bike and a picnic lunch to explore fully and while you're on that picnic lunch you can take a selfie and post it here cool it's nice to see you again hi Ashley welcome to lilio thank you and welcome to Facebook Joel shelgren has managed the operations at the lulio data plant since it opened he offered to show us the guts of this beastly building some people think the cloud is actually a cloud for others it's an ethereal mystery the place where your photos and documents get sucked to and hang out this though is the cloud at least the physical manifestation of it it's thousands of servers and storage systems working together to hold our information Mrs we're all the action happens these are all our photos are like sorry this is really where Facebook is actually running look around see over there it's a picture of a young Ashley Vance who thought that going blonde would be a good idea and that one it's a lingering poke from your creepy EX and right there is an inspirational meme helping lift people's Spirits where does my mom find all these amazing quotes and because we've built the infrastructure to be so redundant we can basically pull any server and it's not going to affect any end user in any negative way so we pulled one out here okay so we're going to take down Facebook [Laughter] typical Monday morning but it's all built to be as energy and cooling efficient as possible so there are no fans at all on this one as you can see they're sort of it's just working on the pressure difference that forces the air through I think for most people who've never been to a data center they're usually like these big sort of pizza box shaped things with tons of fans and moving Parts going on them and you guys compacted everything down if the industry in general started adopting a lot more of this thinking it could really change the whole industry and not just Facebook couple of corridors will go through a typical data center relies on massive air conditioning units to pump cool air onto tens of thousands of computers look Facebook is too hip for that you're gonna catch up it uses Cool Arctic air to keep its photo friend and light machines from melting down this whole place lends itself to Sweden's meticulous attention to detail and design the building is an engineering Marvel that treats air like a Pampered Corgi poo the air gets sucked in cleaned watered and then sent on its way VIA physics with the building pressure pushing the air down onto the computers since Facebook gives away its service for free this place needs to operate as smoothly and cheaply as possible to minimize the cost of each click off camera you'll readily brags about Facebook's cheap clicks on camera yantela so we kind of been dodging around the point I mean this may be the world's most efficient power efficient data center I think one of the most Swedish modesty [Music] it's not just free cold air that brought Facebook to the Arctic Circle The Social Network also came for the cheap reliable power produced by Sweden's vast set of hydroelectric dams foreign starting in 1910 the swedes began building a network of two dozen hydroelectric dams along the lullet River today the dams provide more than enough power to meet all of Northern Sweden's needs so now we will start to urinate Lula River on ludel River Power Rick Abramson and Christopher Lundgren work for vodden fall the energy giant that runs the dams they were kind enough to take me on a road trip to see up close how these amazing machines work [Music] these guys insist that it's wonderful living in the great Frigid North they can check out the Northern Lights from their hot tubs spend months in total darkness and hunt bears and moose so Rick did you already go moose hunting this year then the small hunting ground where I'm part of there's only one grown-up and one cough and the first morning 30 minutes into the hunt they shot the big one then something is over that everyone's done walk me through again like how many dams there are along Jason will do that we have 15 power stations along this uh River of course with great power comes great responsibility and you know stuff to placate people that care about nature and fish we're one of the largest fish breeders in Sweden to compensate for the fact that we built all the power stations because the settlement cannot sort of pass through the river system now so the Energy company breeds salmon yeah we do how many would you have to put back in for you uh in the Lulu River we put back close to half a million every year wow it used to take hundreds of people to run these dams but today they're controlled by two easy-going swedes working in this Command Center from here we control the complete river system 15 power stations and we have two guys here who controls the complete River that's what seems incredible to me is the two people would handle uh half a country's power yeah yeah you could essentially turn on a turbine and shut off a turbine and so today that's all done through software yeah on the rest of our journey today we'll get to go and see some of these options you're going to see the biggest one we have in Sweden and that would be kind of equivalent to uh okay yeah van fall has turbines of all sizes some of them like this big Beauty named Esther now you see the size of it yeah it's huge produces much power as a nuclear reactor what down we go this is what you've been waiting this feels like the seconds before a shuttle loans it does feel like that I've been to a couple yeah how long does it take to get up to full speed here comes the water standing next to one of these turbines when it fires up is one of life's great organ rattling pleasures it's believable how fast it goes the closer you get the more manly you feel for some totally insane reason 250 cubic meters a second okay that's absolutely amazing after getting my organs rattled I decided to head back to lulio and decompress damn what a day it's been a long but awesome week in Sweden somehow we ended up near the arctic circle with a campfire it's our lucky day I've been to Sweden a few times and this trip confirmed my previous Impressions about the country these are a pleasant people who are remarkably good at making things everyone wants but what's more impressive these days is the way in which the swedes are embracing technology the people here try harder than anyone else to find a balance between striving for a bright future while living within their means and then you know cinnamon buns [Music] thank you

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Length: 83min 15sec (4995 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 21 2023