Neil lawrence, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you. Now, you are a computer scientist, but it seems to me, as you ve journeyed deep into the potentiality of artificial intelligence, you ve also thought a great deal about human intelligence and what is so very special and unique about us humans. Can you try to put that into words? yeah, i think, for me, what we ve seen with a lot of the artificial intelligence debate has been a sort of naturally narcissistic in tendency to think about our intelligence. And what i think it does is offers the opportunity to introspect about our intelligence, to stand in a different place, to look at a different type of information processing, that that s done by a computer, and use our understanding of that, which we built and created, so we understand it, to look back and think about what s special about us. Is intelligence the right word to use when it comes to discussing what machines can do in this
Good morning, carl has the morning off. We want to focus on the state of mna in tech. There has been swings and others that were formally the prey have skyrocketed to valuation thats now give them currency to join the hunters. Between tiktoks impending sale, were seeing now in the second half of the year there is plenty of action still to come. Listen to what bob peck told us yesterday on that front. If you go back to march, it was about two billion. So really it ground to a halt. You saw in june, and it has been a tale of two cities a big acceleration and 3 q over 2q so you have seen a ramping here. People are getting more of a feel on valuation, liquidity concerns, their portfolios, s a strategic rationale and more mna continuing to take place through the rest of the year tiktok is the most talked about target President Trump saying he will not extend the deadline. Oracle is on the hunt to buy it, they didnt talk about it at all on last nights earnings call. We have more on what all
Today, without question, on washington. Jonathan absolutely, and the response from washington both inefficient and insufficient with the president and a series of executive orders painting the democrats into a corner. They dont want to be seen challenging this legally. They need to find a way to get back to the negotiating table fast. Tom the executive order and the news out of hong kong as well. He didnt have time to get to it with kevin cirilli, but we may have a Vice President ial candidate today . Jonathan it has to happen at some point this week and the readthrough for this market will be interesting. Many people think this will be the next candidate for the presidency because the former Vice President will be a oneterm president if he even wins in november. Everybody will start reading into the vp pick. Itching to sayre this man is a trojan horse for the radical left. The cbs poll shows things tightening up a little bit off of democratic enthusiasm. Paper, theitmus system of Fore
Coverage, watch anytime on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the go with this free cspan radio app. Today, White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany spoke to reporters about the decision to send data from hospitalist directly to hhs instead of the centers for disease control. Press sec. Mcenany hello, everyone. This afternoon, president will deliver remarks on rolling back regulations to help all americans. Deregulation has been a top priority of this president. Reversed the disaster is overregulation of the obama biden administration. Under President Trump, seven have been taken for everyone new regulation. This amounted to 50 billion in regulatory cost savings and it is important to note that this deregulation agenda lowers the cost for every american. The cost of these burdensome regulations fall disproportionately and benefit disproportionately lower income americans so this president took action to rollback the burdensome regulations that harm low income communities and make su
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