hello, i m samantha simmonds. the man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence has quit his job at google, warning of the dangers of ai. dr geoffrey hinton s pioneering research on deep learning and neural networks has paved the way for current ai systems like chatgpt. but in a lengthy interview with the new york times, dr hinton said he now regretted his work and is worried that al technology will flood the internet with misinformation. google responded in a statement saying, we remain committed to a responsible approach to ai. dr hinton has been telling the bbc how these systems can know so much. the kind of intelligence we re developing is very different from the intelligence we have. we are biological systems and these are digital systems and the big difference is, with digital systems, you have many copies of the same set of weights, the same model of the world, and all these copies can learn separately, but share their knowledge instantly. so it s a
that s the first increase after five consecutive months of declines. consumer prices edged up from 6.9% in march, which could further encourage the european central bank to raise interest rates on thursday. joining me now is christian schulz, deputy chief european economist at citi bank. lovely to see you. so, the number is on the up, no great surprise considering what we have seen elsewhere, but the big question is how the central bank response. the ecb has made some progress, i guess, the base rate was in double digits at the end of last year, we are now down to 7%. no further progress in april, it seems. looking at the details, there are some positives. food inflation is down, it had been rising and rising. hopefully that is a trend that will continue. also called goods inflation, that is also decreasing for the first time. the bad news is, for the ecb, that services inflation keeps rising and thatis services inflation keeps rising and that is the surprise in this, really.
from consumer companies like microsoft, samsung and intel. the technology sector has enjoyed rapid growth during the pandemic but they now face inflation fears and are operating in a higher interest rate environment. there been higher cost saving measures going to place, for example meta announced it will cut 10,000 morejobs this month that s on top of 11,000 jobs that s on top of 11,000 jobs that go last november. the deputy chief investor at richard bernstein investors is not optimistic about the stocks in the us. i not optimistic about the stocks in the us. ., , ., , in the us. i don t see any reason in the us. i don t see any reason to in the us. i don t see any reason to suspect - in the us. i don t see any i reason to suspect anything different from what we have seen. both from these companies over the past few quarters but also from the companies we have heard from this earnings season. what s clear is that growth is slowing and that is hurting these companies, n
welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s seven in the morning in singapore and 2am in sudan, where we begin the programme. british diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from khartoum, the capital of sudan, as fighting between rival military factions enters a second week. the ministry of defence in london confirmed that embassy staff had been brought out under cover of darkness, and the united states has carried out a similar operation. there s no word yet on how other british nationals will be able to leave the country. our africa correspondent, andrew harding, has the latest. amid the bombs and the gunfire in khartoum today, a series of dramatic rescue missions. among those successfully airlifted out of sudan after a week of terror, british embassy staff and their families. over 1,200 people contributed to this operation. it was dangerous and precarious, but nevertheless, we managed to use both c130s and aaoo airc
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