of them are going to appear. the same way 20 years ago you couldn t imagine a youtuber making a living. he also thinks it s highly unlikely that al systems will be more intelligent than humans any time soon. professor yann lecun s words are in sharp contrast to those of the other two men he worked with on the science that underpins modern ai. dr geoffrey hinton retired recently and he said he regretted his life s work. professor yoshua bengio said that he worries about bad actors misusing the tech. both academics and the companies building ai agree that regulation is the best way to try to maximise its benefits and minimise the risks. chatgpt, for example, was unheard of this time last year. yann lecun is confident that ai will be a useful tool rather than a master, and he heralded a new renaissance for humanity. chatgpt couldn t have put it better. zoe kleinman, bbc news. a renaissance maybe but the bbc has been hearing from one uk worker who has already lost hisjob to a
and crew did manage to escape the aircraft before it was engulfed in flames. injapan officials say at least 48 people and died in many others trapped beneath rubble after monday s powerful earthquake. will stay with that story in japan because 48 people are now known to have died in monday s earthquake. the countries prime minister says rescue teams are facing a race against time to find survivors still trapped beneath the rubble. the quake that measured a magnitude of 7.6 hit the province of noto. my correspondent reports from the epicentre. sirens this is a race for survival. rescue workers stream through japan s isolated noto peninsula, the roads blocking their way. they re trying to reach these worst affected areas in the north where people are trapped under their collapsed homes. many families were out at temples, celebrating new year s day, whenjapan was hit by its strongest earthquake in 12 years. nomura san thought his shrine was going to collapse. the whole gate w
and which festive favourite is the christmas number one? and coming up on bbc news. we ll be at villa park where sheffield united are the visitors on a night when victory can take aston villa top of the premier league. hello and welcome to the bbc news at six. in the last hour, the united nations security council has passed a resolution to address the continuing conflict in gaza and the appalling conditions faced by around 2 million people there. it follows days of argument at the un in new york. the resolution calls on asians to create the conditions for the cessation of hostilities and the unhindered delivery of assistance to gaza calls on nations. the resolution the uae has put in blue this morning responds to the calls for a sustainable cessation of hostilities and a massive scale up of humanitarian aid. often in diplomacy, the challenge is meeting the moment in the world we live, not in the world that we want, and we will never tire in pushing for a full humanitarian
clubs joining a breakaway league. good afternoon, welcome to the bbc news at one. police in the czech republic say the gunman who killed 1a people at charles university in prague yesterday, and wounded another 25, killed himself after seeing that police were encircling him from all directions . all those who died have been identified the first to be publically named is lenka hlavkova, who was the head of the university s musicology department. at a news conference in the last couple of hours, police showed bodycam footage of officers trying to intervene during the attack. bethany bell sent this report. this was the moment when special forces entered charles university in prague. they were searching for the 24 year old gunman who ran through corridors and classrooms yesterday afternoon, apparently shooting at random. the czech police havejust released this footage from their body cans. they say the gunman, named by local media as david kosak, took his lone life as they clos