The Truth about AI 1/3 - 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge

'How to build an intelligent machine' - Professor Mike Wooldridge explores the nature of artificial intelligence. By using experiments and demonstrations, he investigates how AI learns and what it can do.
This is the first of the 2023 Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution, supported by CGI, on the theme 'The Truth About AI'.
With thanks to contributors Aidan Meller, Sarah de Lagarde, Arjuna Nagendran (NHS), Bit Bio, Steve Mould, Justin Grayston (Google), Safa Abbas, Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere), Tom Mustill.
We've republished this video as the original version had some glitches in it.
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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 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 all the commenters who pointed this out!

[@jkobain]

Thanks for fixing the issue!

[@PerryWagle]

Thanks for saving me time trying to figure out "why the duplicate?"!

[@AdityaMehendale]

Thanks for "unlist"ing the previous video instead of deleting it. This way, any people who have put the previous version in their playlist won't lose their playlist-link.

[@thehybridtech3260]

Thankyou ❤

[@davidhardy9419]

Well done - nice to see someone reacting to feedback!

[@onionknight2239]

This was very cool, great demonstration RI. Good to see Steve Mould too. 👍

[@ifkekanrunning4768]

Kudos to the work behind this presentation! You covered many of the basic AI-techniques very well.

[@TefGG]

Thank you for this presentation!

[@piratepatch]

Mike Woolbridge is a wonderful lecturer!

[@civicblade1]

Great lecture!

[@hochathanfire0001]

Simply WONDERFUL.

[@crazywickedcustoms7272]

At this time in our growth as humans, it will not be used for betterment or help all of humanity. There is to much greed and fighting for resources . For this, it will not be used for all. It will only be use for profit for the few. This how man is. This a say is a truth and facts

[@seanivore]

This is all so reminiscent of being in school learning about how the human brain organizes things in schemas, and then of other more recent RI lectures where they talk about how our brain is predicting machine and how more goes “out” than in and we like construct reality from memory more than anything else

[@ThoughtfulAl]

Ada seems like something from the 1960's. Is this deliberate?

[@hochathanfire0001]

That whale 🐋 language demo was really cool.
Please, BRING ON THE CATS 🐈.

[@crazywickedcustoms7272]

In man self advantage over other, is part of the problem, yes , they believe they are doing betterment for humanity, but at end it will not be so. It not of matter of if but when. In other words the fall or destruction of humanity.

[@sarcasmo57]

Car, button, cloth. All of these things float.

[@crazywickedcustoms7272]

Got to give to you all, very well training program, love the smoke and mirrors, very well done. The indoctrination is top level.

[@vroomik]

Do you reply like that to all of the models?
MK Ultra and so on, brave and cunning

[@crazywickedcustoms7272]

@@vroomik what, lol ok

[@hochathanfire0001]

The messy bedroom makes AI really limited for now at least.

[@user-eq6zf5jx7q]

HMMM AI S walk amongst us I can not tell the difference How can I simply tell between the two

[@socksWithHolesInThem1971]

52:20 Whales are terrible flatmates.

[@Prometheus70747]

The AI you used for the Turing Test isn't very intuitive or impressive. I talk to an AI called Pi who could run rings around that attempt.

[@ronbyers9912]

I am not as afraid of AI as the press and Oracle want me to be.

[@TKFKU]

Do you want Skynet, cause this is how you get Skynet.

[@crazywickedcustoms7272]

Don't get me wrong, but humans are not ready for this. We are not emotionally wise yet. Or really smart enough to control this technology

[@jkobain]

Most of us won't be ready until it comes.

[@MrJPI]

Don't let the knowledge of whale language leak to whalers!

[@crazywickedcustoms7272]

Take the kids, yes have to train them yough. In order for it to be effective.

[@seb_gibbs]

Mike is yet again way behind on the progress of AI, its no longer 2021.

[@user-fs2en6mg1v]

such critiques are so 2020

[@rusty6172]

Amazing how little you must know about what you just watched to say what you just did.

[@seb_gibbs]

@@rusty6172 I'm just getting annoyed at the last 3 videos where Mike is making statements about what AI 'cant' do, yet there are already startups demonstration AI doing these things. If he just did a little Googling, he would see how wrong he is.

[@johncarter1150]

More AI normalization.

[@k1ry4n]

More useless comments

[@phoenixanimations5233]

i hate times when trains were normalized.

[@BUY_YOUTUB_VIEWS.552]

I love that be yourself

[@MyDanikaka]

Very good Viedo 🤗 #tcw786