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Commissioner has announced plans to retrain all of the citys officers on conflict resolution and the use of force. ryan todd has details. >> reporter: thousands protesting in new york, st. louis, d.c. so-called die-ins in chicago and boston. >> i cant breathe! >> reporter: a national outcry over police tactics and an appeal to prevent this from happening again. >> i cant breathe. i cant breathe. i cant breathe. >> now in new york, the nations largest police force reeling from the chokehold case ...

Training and the proper use of force but also problem-solving, learning how to talk through a tense situation. >> what we want them to do is talk people down as opposed to having to take people down. >> reporter: the goal? to use less force when possible. how does that translate to scenarios on the street? >> the one officer slips behind -- >> reporter: dan is a former new york city policeman. he shows me how an officer could change tactic. >> maybe the better way to train is a little wrist and ...

Really good point. its clear this white house, as you know watching them as closely as i do, can be stubborn about things like this and didnt want to pressed into the situation by politics. they say the focus, obviously, should be on problem solving. i was reaching out to white house aides this morning. they said there would be no surprise last-minute visit today even as governor perry as we speak right now is on the rio grande getting a boat tour to really try to draw yet more attention to this...

Same thing will happen in iraq. the group will get bigger rather than reduce in size. >> jack, you have dealt with these things all over the world. when you look back, your job was to make sure the terrorists dont gain strength, find them and help us kill them, what would you do? >> first of all, i think problem solving begins by having the pl plumbing in ahead of time and anticipating the problem. im hopeful thats what we have here. not all sunnis are supportive of isis. there are groups we hav...

Have you ever watched a 3-year-old do aputer? they go right to it. play with it. thats problem solving. thats creative thinking. the other is wrote memorization. we are actually quite good at the problem solving stuff. there is some evidence that the brains are being recircuited. >> so kasey thinks old people are dumb and young people are smart. what do you think? do you agree? >> i would go with that. >> how old are you? >> 40. >> the world is a more affluent place. you are much less likely to ...

>> no hang ups. >> no rage of -- rageful behavior. >> there is the native american littering commercial. i think thats what they were going for. >> i thought it, woulded. i believe you deserve to be crushed if you feel that strongly about a politician. thats the lesson they should learn. perhaps they will learn to do things for themselves instead of out sourcing and problem solving. >> does that speak to anybody new? >> i think they can be applauded for not having picked a song that was cool fou...

Perpetuity should make regional powers, like russia and china, more willing to support the new afghan state. my optimism is mixed with caution, of course. but after 30 years of civil war in afghanistan, its a pleasure to be able to even have a qualified sense of hope for the country and for its people. if you want to hear the afghan presidential front runners abdullah and ghani on all the issues, go to our website, cnn.com/fareed. next on gps, problem-solving disrupted. a new way to think abou...

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Beings. >> get a little more specific there. how did we take control of our technological future and make sure it doesnt just drive inequality ever and ever greater? >> well, we have to work on the types of skills that were good at, and machines still today arent very good at. that involves creativity, and abstract problem solving, unstructured problems. thats why a lot of inventors, entrepreneurs, musicians have done very, very well. another category thats very important, but often underappreci...

About? >> well, its really advancing on three different fronts. broadly speaking, i would say machine intelligence is replacing a lot of human labor. some of that is in physical mobility, robots that can do factory work. some of it is in language and speech recognition. most of us now routinely talk to our smartphones and expect them to understand and carry out our instructions. not perfectly, but you can see were in the middle of a ten-year period where a lot of tasks can now be done by machine...