The Truth about AI 2/3 - 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge

'My AI Life' - Professor Mike Wooldridge reveals the huge role AI already plays in our daily lives, sometimes without us even realising what it is doing.
This is the second of the 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution, supported by CGI, on the theme 'The Truth About AI'.
We've reuploaded this one as there were moments where the original video froze.
With thanks to contributors Kaushik Subramanian (Sony AI) Polyphony Digital (Gran Turismo), Kaitlin and Freya the dog (Encore Dogs), Demis Hassabis (Alpha Go, Deepmind), Emily Grossman, Rutger Zietsma (Manus Neurodynamica), Rory Cellan Jones, Ana Namburete (University of Oxford), Rivka Isaacson (King's College London), Martin Grady, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool (Alpha Fold), Eric Drass.
Watch the first lecture here: • The Truth about AI 1/3...
Watch the third lecture here: • The Truth about AI 3/3...
In the 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, supported by CGI, Mike Wooldridge will tackle the most important and rapidly evolving field of science today - Artificial Intelligence (AI). Find out more about the lectures here: www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures
Not since the World-Wide Web emerged 30 years ago has a new technology promised to change our world so fundamentally and so swiftly as AI does. Today’s AI tools such as ChatGPT and AlphaGo are just a hint of what is to come. The future of AI is going to be quite a journey, and the 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES to be broadcast on BBC Four and iPlayer in late December, will give us a guided tour.
AI has increasingly grabbed the headlines in recent years - generating excitement and concern in equal measure - but what should we believe? In these lectures Mike will reveal how AI works and how it will affect our lives - and will tackle head-on our hopes and fears for this most fascinating of fields.
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Mike Wooldridge is an academic and author specialising in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
As an academic, he is a professor of AI at the University of Oxford, where he served as Head of Department of Computer Science from 2014 to 2021; he is also Director for AI at The Alan Turing Institute in London. He has received multiple awards for both research and education, including in 2020, the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society - the leading award for a UK computer scientist - and in 2021 the Outstanding Educator Award from the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI).
From 2014-16, Mike was President of the European Association for AI, and from 2015-17 he was President of the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence, the leading journal for AI, established more than 50 years ago and has been invited to give evidence on matters relating to AI to multiple government committees.
As an author, he has written nine books, which have been translated nine times. His books include two popular science introductions to AI: the Ladybird Expert Guide to AI (Penguin, 2018) in the iconic British book series, and The Road to Conscious Machines (Pelican, 2020).
Mike gives frequent public lectures on AI, including at the Hay Festival and Cheltenham Science Festival and is regularly interviewed by the media.
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[@TheRoyalInstitution]

We've republished this lecture and unlisted the original video, as it had some glitches in it where the picture froze. Thanks to the commenters who pointed this out!

[@1000Orgasms]

I'm curious to know how does issues like these even happen.

[@depressedtruffle0000]

Wow. Its been a long time since I watched one of these and realised why I love this channel.

[@JohnClulow]

Thanks for helping us develop some understanding of what "AI" technology means and how will be influencing our experience now and in the near future

[@oleksandrdrevytskyi2768]

In the last one it would be easier just to ise the cross product of the vectors (x;y;z) and (z;x;y) = (y^2 - xz; z^2 - xy; x^2 - yz) = (0;2;-1). Both vectors must orthogonal to their cross product, so we have two scalar products equal to two: 2y - z =0 and 2x - y = 0 andyou get the same relations between the variables: z=2y=4x.

[@ganeshmurthy129]

Isn’t this the same episode that was released on 31st Dec 2023?

[@jkobain]

Please read their pinned comment (it was there at the moment of writing my and even your comment).

[@ganeshmurthy129]

@@jkobain thanks :)

[@ac.creations]

I'm re listening to it. Just because.

[@MuddyRavine]

Mo data, mo betta! Garbage in, garbage out!

[@colorpalet]

It is important to point out that Go AI whitch betan the best player, was beaten by someone who decided to just beat it and it did not even take him that long. And many others found a way to defet the AI. And chess bots are not AI, becase if they would them every program could be a AI. Well tehere are new AI chess bots whitch are some what capable and there are factinating as well. Does anyone know the limits of what can be cold a AI ?

[@cptazstudios7952]

Basically an Ai is when a machine is basing decisions on heuristics it made itself. Anything under that umbrella. Most of the new chess bots use some level of Ai, but only after alpha zero existed

[@cptazstudios7952]

This lecture wasn’t really about the concerns of Ai, so I think that’s why it wasn’t mentioned. Maybe in their next lecture (the one they were talking about at the end of the video) they will discuss it

[@robert8124]

AI will be,only as intelligent as the people who are programing it and know only what the people who are programing it knows,it is just FASTER that processing that information.

[@cptazstudios7952]

That’s not necessarily true for the future and the reason for it is the computer is developing it’s own heuristics. And that’s part of the concern for future Ai

[@chriscockrell9495]

Turing Shannon Tic tac toe Chess Go Branching factors 4, 37, Brute force - permutations Heuristics - application 2016 - go Parkinson’s MRI Ultrasound in pregnancy

[@wendyg8536]

Is this video funded by Tony Blair and Oracle ?

[@paultaylor7947]

I hope they manage to right the climate first. I am not a big fan going by the previous video. I am not a video game fan either so much as spending a my time playing games all day. I liked them for a while when I was young but then the novelty wares off .it's not a better world because of such toy games. I would rather have access to real snooker

[@awebmate]

It wasn't about video games, it was about the concept of using points as a reward system to navigate the AI to produce the desired results.