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Revolution is changing that. You have warned me not to get too close. It does look a little bit hazardous. This robot dog hasnt been programmed to walk. Its learning by itself. Its called reinforcement learning. What weve done here is, weve given it this task to try to kind of stand up and move forward. When it does well, one of the Computer Scientists gives it the digital equivalent of a pat on the head. I can see its doing better and better. Its strong. I try and put that in its way, and its stronger than i am. Yeah. Have you trained it to make a beeline for me . Uhhuh. I feel like im battling the ai here, and the als winning. In just a few hours, its moving around by itself, even coping with the unexpected. Im really feeling an instinct to help it, but that is, of course, not good. You know, its learning, and maybe it looks a bit mean sometimes when we push it around, but, really, werejust trying to see what it can handle and help it learn new behaviours. This robot dog is the brain
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. doctor 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 his job to artificial intelligence along with his colleagues. dean meadowcroft and his team of marketing copywriters were asked by their bosses to trial working with the ai app chatgpt before christmas.
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