How To Build A Human with Gemma Chan | Artificial Intelligence | Spark

artificial intelligence for years a dream of scientists and hollywood producers but also the violent and destructive stuff of our nightmares my name is gemma chan i play a robot in the futuristic sci-fi drama humans as the development of artificial intelligence accelerates and starts to pervade every aspect of our lives i'm hoping to find out whether the world depicted in science fiction is 10 years away 100 years away or closer than we think i'm going to meet some of the greatest minds in science they're divided some think ai holds the key to a safe and prosperous future i see ai as the opportunity actually to unlock humanity's full potential others think the nightmare may just be about to begin we're worried that this will come out too soon people will die once you have a kind of super intelligent genie that's out of the bottle it might not be possible to put it back in again to see just how far we can take the power of ai we're conducting a unique experiment building a robot version of me this is really the first time we've tried this so it's very very new it's really quite uncanny a robot that looks like me is one thing it's my nose but can it harness the power of artificial intelligence to actually think like me i like the taste of cheese can we build a human it's so strange hi hello nice to meet you day one of the robot build and we need a body to house its brain welcome to imminent effects thank you thanks for having us millennium fx is one of europe's leading suppliers of prosthetics animatronics and specialist makeup oh my goodness this is something that we do a lot at millennium you know babies come up in tv shows a lot but you can't film on babies for very long so we produce these lifelike babies so that people can hold them it's so weird the closer something is to looking human the weirder it feels it's what we call the uncanny valley where your mind kind of knows it kind of knows that no matter how perfect something is no matter how good the movement is or how realistic it looks your mind knows that there's something not quite right i think i'm just gonna put her down making a silicon duplicate will enable the robot builders to create a lifelike skin a e i o u my double will need to have hundreds of facial expressions just like me and they'll need to be in sync with what the artificial brain is thinking hi that is me time for me to get my face copied we're going to have you uh 3d scanned kate walsh is the producer in charge today we're going to try and watch you as closely as possible and you know see if we can pick up on all the subtle expressions and movements of your face i'm intrigued to see how far we can go and how um how lifelike can make it i really have no idea what to expect it's so cool [Music] uh this is the room where we'll be doing your head cast and on the ball behind you are some of the people who had the pleasure of life casting before is that gordon ramsay there is yes that's it perfect and if you just want to open your mouth just a fraction and just blow out gently that's it keep your eyes nice and relaxed that's doing fantastically the cast consists of two different types of silicon and is finished off with a traditional plaster shell one two three great shot well done the whole process needs to be quick as after 20 minutes the heat becomes intolerable i'm gonna whip that off that's great but that's a great cast you did really really really well great thank you while the team will need to turn silicon into something that resembles me a bigger challenge will be to create its mind for that the robot needs artificial intelligence defined by computer scientists as a machine having the capability to make a human-like decision thank you so much for agreeing to talk to us today oxford professor of philosophy nick bostrom is one of the world's leading experts in ai so the goal of ai artificial intelligence has all along since its beginnings in the 50s been to make machines that have the same general purpose smartness that we humans have that can do all the things that the human brain can do from smartphones to share prices from online customer support to cctv we're now surrounded by so much of it we started to take it for granted ai is a general-purpose technology you can go through any sector in the economy you can go through healthcare entertainment medicine defense you name it you could think of ways in which processes could be improved by being smarter machines are being developed as soldiers mastering real-time translations using the latest in word recognition software can you hear me in french and ai could soon have a significant role in the legal system an ai judge that was shadowing cases from the european court of human rights recently came up with the same decision as the human judge in four out of five cases the medical profession is also making use of it these canadian scientists have recently been to the uk to sell an ai diagnostic tool that they say can identify a tumor instantly and accurately without the need for a biopsy and with immediate results just like a human the machine got trained on multiple thousands of images to get an accuracy level not only is it less invasive and quicker but it could save the nhs millions of pounds if introduced [Music] some of us are already entrusting our lives to ai [Music] this is the tesla model s on the market for a cool 100 000 pounds is an academic specializing in ai and is interested in how autonomous decision-making will affect us all you're going to take your hands off i've arranged to meet him on a test track to try out one of the car's most impressive features the ability to drive itself using artificial intelligence right the hands are coming off the hands are off whoa we're approaching a bed [Music] [Applause] oh my goodness see that it nearly took us off the road there yes i know this is meant to be a less stressful driving experience i'm sweating of course yeah i'm sweating oh my goodness i'll try being the passenger semi-autonomous cars like this are really quite controversial especially in the field of robotics and we really need much broader societal debate the uk government's rolling out autonomous cars and they haven't really debated as to whether people want it or not this controversy has been fueled by drivers in america ignoring the company's safety guidelines and uploading outrageous clips to the internet but i think what puts it all in perspective is the recent fatal crash in the usa yes i remember hearing something about that in the news earlier this year a driver crashed and died allegedly whilst watching a harry potter film his car hit the underside of a trailer at 74 miles per hour it pulled out right in front of a bright white trailer bright white sky very sunny and the camera couldn't detect the trailer and that's why it ran into it and i suppose that the more autonomous vehicles you have on the road there you know the likelihood of of incidents like that accidents you know they're bound to happen it's measuring the space now with its sensors i think but while tesla say ai cars will have fewer accidents wow ultimately we won't be in control look it's correcting itself as well so you imagine what's going to happen when they're really are fully autonomous because you're going to have to delegate all your driving decisions to them life and death decisions it could well be life and death decisions oh look do you see this fan coming down here well we're just driving along here on that side in this direction the van comes hammering at us for some reason and you've got that woman there in a push chair and she's going to be hit we avoided the car has to make a decision to take the hit or to kill the mother and baby what would you do i don't know i don't know what i would do in that split second i think it's a really that's a really difficult decision for for anyone to make for a human to make you know how can a car decide which life is more valuable i don't think it should myself [Music] the robot we're building won't need to make life and death decisions [Music] but it will have to harness ai's decision-making powers to think like me it's being built on a modest industrial estate on the outskirts of penryn cornwall i wasn't expecting the uh the hub of the robot build to be next to a b q wondering if it's going to be a mop head will jackson is at the forefront of constructing human-like robots hello to be convincing robots need to reason learn and understand so they can react almost instinctively like us hello how are you i'm i'm very well thank you how are you he's thinking about it he's great he's very much a robot you definitely know that this is a machine not person he's pretty limited will plans to apply the knowledge acquired building robo-thespian rt4 as a basis for constructing the ai version of me in order to be convincing the robot will need to master the complexity of language so the first thing that's going to happen is somebody's going to speak to the robot we've got microphones in the ears pick up the sound at that point it's just sound it doesn't mean anything so we have to turn the sound into words into text once we've got the found as text we've got to try and find the meaning what what is this person actually saying to me what's the key word what did they ask about and once we've got that meaning we have to try and think of a sensible reply we have to then turn that back into speech so we're going to have to take user-generated version of your voice which sounds like you while we're doing all of this the robot can't just sit still so it has to have all the little actions that you would have when you listen the way you think about what somebody's going to say the way you think about what you're going to say you've got to get all these little subtle things right all at the same time the brain in this robot has got to come up with an answer that makes sense even when it's never heard the question before it's a huge challenge and we have so many things to get right [Music] will's going to use his existing robot hardware to test out the speech recognition software that he plans to use on the robot me there's an old saying in computer programming it's garbage in garbage out if the robot cannot recognize what you're saying if it just gets one or two words in a sentence wrong when you speak what you get back is complete gibberish using speech recognition software can it recognize words it hears turn them into text and then accurately repeat them echo on okay peter piper picked a piece of pickled pepper put it on a panda car drove it around the moon and ate a sausage on the way home peter piper picked a piece of pickled pepper put it on a pancake our dragon's random name generator sausage on the way home random man generator sausage part of the challenge is to get our robot to respond as quickly as a human would that's within a tenth of a second hello hello too hello hello it's too slow to respond as fast as a human the robot needs to work out what's being said and what it means before the end of a sentence and reply with a lightning fast response which involves instinct like us we've got to be so quick with understanding what's been said that we can be replying before even really the last words come out so it's got to be super fast building a machine that can understand a human an answer back convincingly is one of the toughest challenges in ai if i speak quicker does it work better if i speak quicker does it work better it's almost fast enough it's almost there but it's not quite if we can't get the recognition that quick blown it i'm a robot we're testing the boundaries of science with a unique artificial intelligence test building a robot that looks sounds and thinks like me [Music] the robot team is progressing well but it's my facial expressions that are proving hard for the robot to sync with its brain it's quite a scary looking thing at the moment but uh once it's got the rest of the core that goes on which has got the top teeth in it and then the skin will go over the top it'll start to look a lot more like gemma [Applause] the physical part of the build is tricky but it's the robot's ability to converse like a human that's really going to test our engineers with moore's law stating that computer processing power doubles every two years artificially intelligent achievements in the real world have been accelerating fast in the 1950s computers beat us at naughts and crosses then in the 1990s they beat us at chess those computers were programmed to work out all the possible outcomes of each move and then weighed up how each move would contribute to a winning strategy but we're now entering an age when computers aren't just programmed but can learn for themselves computers like ibm's watson this is jeopardy the ibm challenge in 2011 watson was put up to one of the toughest challenges ever a general knowledge quiz that requires logic and quick thinking this is jeopardy it's a bit of an american institution it's a general knowledge quiz program and they ask questions in a really strange way they give you the answer and you have to work out what the question is duncan anderson is ibm's european chief technology officer for watson so we've got the two best players here we've got person who won the most amount of money on the show and the person who has the longest winning streak two of the most brilliant brains had won five million dollars between them this game was worth another million [Music] watson itself is not connected to the internet so it's not out there searching it's their standalone playing against these champion players it was a big risk the category is 19th century novelists and here is the clue william wilkinson's an account of the principalities of wallachia and moldavia inspired this author's most famous novel who is bran and this is the point where watson's won we've beat the best human players at jeopardy so how exactly do you program a machine to do something that it's never done before well the first thing is you don't program it trying to guess every single question that might come up and then program the computer with the right answer for that question we would be here forever so we use this thing called machine learning which is an approach to solving problems whereby the machine can learn from experiences so we took watson and we taught it we fed it lots of information uh for example uh back issues of time magazine wikipedia encyclopedias so watson was was learning in a way and then we go through a teaching process just like you would teach a child we're teaching watson and we're testing it and we're giving it feedback when it gets it right and feedback when it gets it wrong and then it adjusts its approach to making decisions you could think of it a bit like trying to find a pathway through a field so you have a very faint distinct path that maybe only one person has trodden through and what you're trying to do is to feed information so that pathway becomes more defined as more people go down that path the path gets more trodden through and becomes more obvious so the more data that you feed into watson it's almost like the the more or the wider the path becomes or the more distinct the path becomes precisely so watson becomes more confident that that pathway is the right pathway to take we now need my robot to undergo a basic version of this process it needs its own pathway and be fed hundreds of bespoke new rules on how to respond to a question and then learn how to use them ready to go now i'm going to try to try the latest chat script from bruce okay a key moment will has commissioned one of the world's leading computer programmers to build a chatbot a piece of software which simulates human conversation and responds with the answer it thinks i would give do you like repetition yes do you like repetition you said that already no that's the kind of reply i'm looking for that's what i want to get to that was good you're improving right how about we talk about work you've played a lot of supernatural characters are you a fan of the genre or is it just a coincidence i do love science fiction and things that explore the boundaries of the possible but actually having a bunch of rules in that genre is just coincidence the team has certainly done their homework just as watson was fed information from previous jeopardy games our chatbot has been fed interviews and background information on me once we can get the expressions and all those other little subtle cues movement things in there i think it will start to come together fantastic yeah it will be fantastic are you sure i'm positive what's your next question the next question is how to make it sound like me hello hello i'm gemma my name is the human voice has a huge variation of inflection pitch and intonation our robot will need to replicate the essence of my voice with all the specific quirks that make it unique to me i should just keep in mind that when you get commerce you make a small pulse voodoo madison is a computational linguist and works for a company that specializes in synthesized voices it's not the words that you're recording here it's more you're more interested in the different sounds that i'm making yeah i'm not interested in words at all i'm interested in the combinations of phonemes that we are getting the phone in the os so the combinations of sounds how many sentences do i need to record well in the end it's about 1400 sentences 1400 yeah today this is gonna be quite a long afternoon i certainly have appreciated that outlook for my creativity imagine george bush singing in the shower [Music] uh you will have to do the previous one again [Music] we're teaching our robot how to speak like me you are an athlete if you play golf but in the future we may get to a stage where it can teach itself learning from experience and coming up with its own solutions which is what ais are starting to do hi hi dennis nice to meet you good to meet you thank you so welcome to the offices thanks for having me no problem at all so demis has a child chess prodigy from north london it's actually quite a strange meeting because i watched you on being pretending to be uh in 2011 he launched a british artificial intelligence company called deepmind just three years later google bought his company for 400 million pounds one of the first things we got our programs to do was to play classic atari games and we wanted the ai to actually learn to play these games by just from the pixels on the screen and no other other information so it had to learn for itself what the rules of the game were how to get points and how to sort of master the game the idea behind breakout is that you control a bat and a ball and you've got to break out through a rainbow-colored wall brick by brick i think i remember this from from when i was younger yeah so you can see it's starting to get the hang of what it should do it's not very good so it misses the ball quite a lot but it's starting to understand that it's got to move the bat towards the ball if it wants to get points this is after 300 games there's still not that many so we thought this is pretty good but what would happen if we just let the program continue to play the game so we left it playing for another 200 games and then we came back and it did this amazing strategy of digging a tunnel around the side of the wall and actually setting the ball around the back he's really amazing he's discovered it for itself and obviously can do it act you know with with superhuman precision then last year demis and his team built a computer program to play the most complex game ever devised an ancient chinese game called go the aim of the gaming go is to either capture your opponent's pieces or to surround areas of the board and make it your territory in chess the board is made up of an 8x8 grid this means the number of possible moves in a game can be number crunched by a computer with a 19 by 19 board go is a much more complex game even the best players they use their intuition and their instincts more than calculation astonishingly the number of possible moves is greater than the number of atoms in the universe so even if you took all the world's computing power and ran it for a million years that would still not be enough to brute force a solution to how to win go so demis gave a more powerful computer the same challenge it gave the atari computer five years before could it teach itself how to play the world's most complex board game and beat the world's best player earlier this year demas took the computer program he'd named alphago to korea to play the world champion there was actually a genuine sort of excitement and sort of fear about what was actually going to happen the man on the right is making the moves on behalf of alphago that's a very that's a very surprising move i thought i thought it was i thought it was a mistake alphago played a move that was just completely unthinkable for a human to play so there's two important lines in go if you play on the third line you're trying to take territory inside of the board if you play on the fourth line you're trying to take influence into the center of the board and what alphago did is it played on the fifth line and and um you never do that in the position that it played in and we were actually quite worried because obviously at that point we didn't know if this was a you know a crazy move or a you know brilliant original move and then 15 moves later that move ended up joining up with another part of the board and sort of magically just yeah we're resulting in helping it win the game demise's ai made headlines around the world when it won the match we're not there yet but in the next you know few years we would like to get to the point where you could give it any data scientific medical or commercial and it would find these structures or these patterns that perhaps human experts have missed and highlight those so that improvements can be made i think what's really interesting about it is the fact that this program can teach itself it can learn from its mistakes it can come up with a genuinely creative solution to a problem and and really you can apply that to anything [Music] so if we can give my robot the ability to learn for itself who knows where it might take us it's so strange we're testing the boundaries of science with a unique artificial intelligence test building a robot that looks sounds and thinks like me the team is working on getting the robot's facial expressions to work in tandem with the ai [Music] if you look at other robots of this type this kind of flexible silicon face robot this is bloody good look at me look at me oh spooky the heart of the robot is conversation that seems real and the software to do this the chat book has just arrived hello my name is jemma chan i'm not a robot that sounds like gemma isn't that i think it sounds like gemma do you think i think that sounds like gemma but it's proving a real challenge to synchronize the body with the mind when we can get all of the axes going at the same time it'll look really good hopefully the robot will be able to pick the right expression for the right thought this is the first stored pose and it's a little smile that's awesome i like to look at that will is teaching the robot 180 of the most common movements i think she's happy hoping she'll choose the right ones to react and be convincing as a human gemini knows how to smile forever and she will be able to seamlessly blend from one smile to a frown to anger to despair and the whole range of human emotions but we have to teach her them if we can teach ai almost anything that involves reasoning and decision making once it has those skills what might be the consequences this is the london gateway dockyard every day over 20 000 containers are moved by a highly complex ai which controls the logistics and timings of what happens when and where i can only see about five people just ten years ago a port of this size would have employed thousands of workers to shift these containers today many of the 500 employees spend their time supervising the ai machines the ai is incredibly efficient moving the containers in the fewest number of moves like a very basic alphago it comes up with solutions faster than any human would be able to wow that's a lot of containers ai expert and writer martin ford thinks what we're seeing here reflects the shape of things to come look out at all these containers here and think of those as representing the job market in the united kingdom and imagine 35 percent roughly a 30 a third of those disappearing and what would happen to our society and our economy if that were to happen this is an incredible impact on all of us and on the economy it's something that is going to be uniquely disruptive something we've never seen before in history one of the things that's really driving it is that machines in a limited way or at least you know they're beginning to think and it's not just blue collar jobs you may not realize this but a lot of online journalism based on statistics like sports and business articles are increasingly being written by ais this is a corporate earnings report for star bulk carriers which is actually one of the companies that utilizes this board one of these items is written by a machine and one is written by a human journalist let me just take a look and see if you can determine which is which yeah so the first one athens greece starbot carriers corporation on wednesday reports a loss of 48.8 million dollars in his first quarter yeah that sounds pretty human to me um and the other one starts this starbuck carriers corporation reported a net revenue decrease of 14.9 in the first quarter of 2016. which one do you think is human and which one do you think is a machine it's really hard to tell which one is written by do you know i believe the one on the right is written by a person and the one on the left is written by the machine they both sound like something that a person could have written that's right we are really heading toward a kind of a tipping point or a point at which things are going to accelerate beyond anything we've seen before this is just really historic it's not just about muscle power anymore it's about brain power machines are moving into cognitive capability and that of course is the thing that really sets people apart that's the reason that most people today still have jobs whereas horses have been put out of work it's because we have disability to think to learn to figure out how to do new things and to solve problems but increasingly the machines are pushing into that area and that's going to have huge implications for the future are any jobs safe right now it's really hard to build robots that can can approach human ability and dexterity and mobility so a lot of skilled trade type jobs electricians and plumbers and that type of things are probably going to be relatively safe but that's thinking out you know over the next 10 20 maybe 30 years if once you go beyond that really nothing is off the table but the biggest danger may not be losing our jobs professor stephen hawking recently warned that the creation of powerful ai will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity hawking was recently joined by tesla founder elon musk and other leading figures in an open letter highlighting the potential dangers of unchecked ai one of the most vocal was professor nick bostrom developments in the last few years in machine learning have just been more rapid than people expected with these deep learning algorithms and so forth how far away are we from achieving human level artificial intelligence the media and opinion by which year do you think there's a 50 percent chance was 2040 or 2050 in our lifetime yeah within the lifetime of a lot of people alive today the concern is you're building this very very powerful intelligence and you want to be really sure then that this goal that it has is the same as your goal that it incorporates human values in it because if it's not the goal that you're happy with then you might see the world transform into something that maximizes the ai score but leaves no room for you and your values this idea of autonomous and dangerous ais is a recurring theme in the world of science fiction nick thinks that super intelligent machines could one day inhabit the real world and use their power to negative effect if we don't put the right safeguards in place ais could take their instructions to logical but unanticipated extremes the concern is not that these ais would resent us or resent being exploited by us or that would hate us or something but that they would be indifferent to us so if you think maybe you have some big department store and it wants to build a new parking place maybe there was an ant colony there before right so it got paved over it's not because we hate the ants it's just because we didn't factor into our goal and we didn't care similarly if you had a machine that wants to optimize the universe to maximize the realization of some gold in realizing this goal we wouldn't be kind of stomped out in the same way that yeah collateral damage the way in which ais can be diverted from what their architects intended laid out earlier this year when microsoft introduced tay to twitter the ai persona was designed to act like an american teenager to attract a younger audience the chatbot worked by absorbing and mimicking the language of other twitter users but tay was hijacked by internet trolls who gave it a very different set of values the original intention was corrupted and tay was unable to work out which views were acceptable and which weren't within a day tay became a hitler-loving racist sex pest this shows what can happen to ai if it falls into the wrong hands but could a future take do far worse once you have a kind of super intelligent genie that's out of the bottle like it might not be possible to put it back in again like you don't want to have a super intelligent adversary that is working at cross purposes with you that might then resist your attempts to shut it down it's much better to get it right on the first attempt not to build a super intelligent evil genie in the first place right you want to have if you're going to have a super intelligent team you want it to be on your side yeah exactly in cornwall our genie is about to be let out of its bottle and i want to know whose side it's on robots upstairs here bear in mind this is not your final skin so let's have a look inside let's just let her peep oh my goodness i'm so weird see it's quite warm now you just feel it though it's weird losing the eyes [Music] it's so strange because she's not quite right but she you know i can recognize like the nose is well i mean it's yeah it's it's my nose try asking her something okay uh what have you been up to today we've been busy filming season two of humans since april and it's been very exciting not bad so we can have a kind of guess of the sort of things people might say say i can't resist cheese on top what did you have for breakfast i had a toasted cheese sandwich is that because you can't resist cheese on taste i like the taste of cheese is that true do you really like chicken taste i love cheese oh yeah so you know there's a little personality trait maybe not as much as as she likes she's right it's the facial expression so not quite in sync with what she's saying basically there's a slight software part but don't worry too much you like very much very strange a few facial tips going on yeah she has but you know this is really the first time we've tried this so it's very very new and what you'll find is things will progress very very quickly facial takes aside the build is going well every day the robot is making progress in terms of how it looks sounds and thinks so we've come up with an idea to put it to the test hi robot gemma do not fail we're building an artificially intelligent robot that looks like me talks like me and thinks like me and today i'm going to meet her in her finished form last time i saw her she needed quite a bit of work so i'm hoping that that today we'll have more of a finished product [Music] yeah i don't know i'm quite nervous [Music] yes hello really strange it's spooky isn't it wow it's really quite uncanny [Applause] in the 1950s the visionary godfather of british computing alan turing saw forward to the days when a computer would be able to think like us and he came up with a test could a bystander tell if he was talking to a machine or a person it's known as a turing test and we've adapted it to try out on our own robot this is an enormous challenge basically what we're doing is taking a fictional vision of the future and trying to bring it here now she's ready for her close up i've invited some journalists to come and interview her to see if they can tell it's not actually me and we've rigged the place with hidden cameras and i've called in a favor from humans castmates emily barrington and will tudor to give proceedings an air of reality and the journalists will meet them first [Music] before being taken into a second room where to give us a fighting chance they'll interview robot gemma over a video call hi i'm so sorry i can't be there in person i'll be in a room down the hall watching with the robot's creators will and kate come in but first there's just time to introduce robot gemma to my castmates oh my goodness that's terrifying what's extraordinary is the tiny movements in the face are you real maybe so with everything in place the experiment begins i'm so nervous oh my god so should i just get started and ask you questions i live in nottingham that's very much apology accepted it's not the smoothest of starts my name is laurab got it how are you doing no lorab l-a-r-e-b could you say that um one more time laura great yeah what's your name thank you for coming on and skyping that's really nice of you no thank you for taking the time to talk to me how was season one for you i wish i could explain it to you but i think it is just an instinct oh i think he knows so far robot gemma's responses haven't gone as well as i'd hoped but gradually she starts to find her train of thought so tell me about series two it's a key word for gemma robot series two if this journalist just keeps saying series two everything will go fine it seems that the scope has got bigger for series two the main difference is that the world of the show has has become bigger and what does mia want in series 2 mia's trying to find her place in the world the voice is a little bit glitchy isn't it she's going though she's getting in so do you think a synth can enjoy art it's a good question yes especially like sculpture yes good answer can you hear me now uh yep i can see and hear you okay lovely perfect okay so um we're short on time no okay that's absolutely fine i don't think she's clocked that she's not talking to me yet what would you like to see a robot do oh i'd love a robot to tidy my room oh my god what can we expect from season two uh the synth characters have fragmented in a way um i can't tell you anything more specific about the plot i'm afraid can you tell us where we find your character mia's not with the hawkins family mia's trying to find her place in the world we've got her she totally believes it and there's a new character that you spend quite a lot of time with she's she's perfect what can you tell us about their relationship if anything i can't answer that she's not sure that's that's okay it's okay to be evasive on that who's your favorite character you obviously time to meet the journalists and reveal the ruse hello hi it's so confusing just how convincing was it [Applause] [Music] she looks so real what did you have for breakfast this morning the usual got dressed and sat at my computer what do you think well i wasn't sure yeah yeah what were the giveaways the voice may be fooled me when i first sat down and looked at it yeah completely full oh wow it just looks like a kind of not best skype connection how are you today i'm very good thank you did you believe you were talking to me i did yeah i honestly thought it was you could you say that um one more time [Music] what's really surprised me is that we've got as far as we have there was obviously something slightly uncanny about her i'm really impressed that she held her own i don't know if anyone would be convinced by our robot and quite a few people were for at least a bit so in that sense that's that's success [Music] having set out to find out how far we are from the unsettling fictional world of humans the answer is perhaps a bit more complicated than i thought whilst human-like robots may well be some way away what's clear is that ai is developing at speed and we need to debate the potential pitfalls before it's too late it's very clear that these technologies are getting better and better and do think we have to understand that we're approaching this tipping point this point where it's going to have a greatly amplified effect and we need to find a way to adapt to that the same technology can be used for good or for bad and i think it's down to society and the the inventors of that technology and the public at large to make sure that it gets used for the right things this is just the beginning

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