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I think artificial intelligence is

programmed analogous some guy in an

office over together automation and a I

have a huge part in our society the

changes have been quite drastic they've

been quite fundamental we don't

necessarily know what is to come I don't

need Grover's are going to be able to

create in the way that human creates

there's a lot of things that we do on a

daily basis that just can't be automated

to empathize to love to care that's what

makes us human the job is your

opportunity to provide to the people

that you love they're advancing at such

a rapid pace that they're gonna start to

affect our daily life

my job could be done by a robot a robot

couldn't do my job we can't be ignorant

of them we have to embrace them and we

have to adapt because otherwise we'll be

just left behind

I left Ireland to work as a journalist

in London almost ten years ago over that

time I've witnessed firsthand the

enormous impact that technology has had

on the workplace I am a UK editor for

Mashable

a media and entertainment company we do

a lot of reporting around science

entertainment technology and social

media my role as an editor is to lead a

team of journalists here in the London

office technology is just part and

parcel of everything that we do so

you're constantly in this living

breathing thing that is pivoting at

every given moment I'd love to say that

I would never be replaced by a robot I

think a robot codes do certain aspects

of my job like checking the spellings of

things then there are nuances to

language and tone that I think it robot

would still have limitations in

delivering I've worked hard for this job

I don't want to just hand it over to a

robot it's such a big part of who I am

so the idea of some robot coming along

and just like willy-nilly being able to

Swan in and suddenly take it over would

be absolutely heartbreaking

in the everyday of our working lives

Automation can be seen all around us

artificial intelligence are machines

that work and react like humans since AI

came into its own a number of years ago

robots are ever-present in our lives

often in hidden ways from the algorithms

or during our Facebook feeds to the apps

we use on our smartphones machines have

been developed beyond all recognition

they're now capable of not just merely

constructing vehicles but of driving

them autonomously

diagnosing illness and even

understanding human emotions

it's estimated that nearly half of all

US jobs will be automated in the next 20

years as the pace of this change

accelerates I'd like to find out if we

are really facing a future where

machines will take our jobs

do you think a robot could ever do your

job

I'm sure robot cars will walk they was

driverless cars can warp or I still

don't believe it's they can be a hundred

percent safe even if you're using a

phone if you use your phone how many

times does your phone freeze because

it's a computer so the same thing can

happen with a driverless car I reckon

you know and again and in my job w does

a personal touch

a robot is not gonna help people put

bags in the boot of the car

children who are born today have a 50%

chance of living to a hundred their

future in the workplace will be defined

by a technological revolution

seeing newborn babies never gets old you

know that miracle of how human beings

can produce such a complex little being

thinking about all of the things they're

gonna do when they get out there in the

world things that they're going to

absorb it's phenomenal really how

complex the human mind is have

intelligent these little creatures

already are it's amazing to think fast

these little children are going to go

out into that big bad world and they're

going to get jobs but don't even exist

yet technology has now moved to the

point where machines can do very complex

tasks that were once the preserve of

humans today in a Dublin hospital a

cancer patient is undergoing surgery to

remove his prostate the procedure is

being carried out by a robot so Kurt can

you just tell us a little bit about the

procedure you're going to have today dr.

Flynn explained to me that big

difference between the robotic and the

traditional procedure is that the

robotic term will be just five small

little holes and the recovery period

will be much faster because of that less

invasive less invasive yeah we should be

more by pretty much the next day and how

do you feel about the idea that a robot

is carrying out this operation no I

suppose I trust I trust in engineering

in general I'm an engineer myself know

very confident about it do you think

you'd feel differently about it if there

was no human involved like the idea of a

robot doing this completely on its own I

think it would just but in time that's

probably to me it's going to be

so ask the searcher can you see a day

where artificial intelligence will

eventually replace you the human in the

equation I don't think so

I think it'll certainly facilitate what

we do and I think you know things like

augmented reality will make a difference

but there's such variation and

variability in within the human anatomy

in the human body that I think there

will always be a role for human

intervention

I was quite incredible watching this

robot which to me looked like almost

like an octopus calling in with all

these tentacles

to see the level of precision with which

the robot was operating

there

would this be considered a serious

operation it's major surgery but quite

common you know they're about three and

a half thousand men diagnosed with

prostate cancer in Ireland each year and

a good percentage of those go on to have

surgery just looking at like the screen

you could see four different utensils

just making tiny little incisions all

onto the instruction of the team of

doctors and surgeons who are in there

but it was quite clear that the robot

was the tomb the real brain or the real

intelligence was all of the humans in

the room with artificial intelligence

you know I wonder would we ever have a

day where that robot will be able to

kick-start itself to just come in with

little tentacles and start operating

without any humans present in the room

it's estimated that up to four million

jobs in the US alone will be replaced by

self-driving vehicles with the advances

car manufacturers like Tesla are making

with artificial intelligence it's not a

question of will autonomous vehicles

take over but when

my vehicle is a test them unless tests

have been the leaders in real time

Australia it's one of the features I

bought the care for I know it's got

further levels to go to get to the level

of autonomy but it really does work I

need he's safer I'm convinced to save

the driver the autopilot worked so well

that I can see more and more people

going over to Paris and of course Kerr

has many more sensors than we have we

can look forward and backwards and so

forth we turn our heads but the Kerr is

looking forward and backwards inside

words all the time so in that respect I

think it's a better sensing system in

some ways than the person it probably

sounds a bit daunting but actually it's

quite the opposite so just put your hand

down and from flip that lever twice

sorry okay oh my god Martin I would

we'll go around the bend of change

I better not grab the wheel because then

I'm back in control is that right yeah

you reckon control my foot is off the

accelerator right now

around the bend

okay I really want to grab the steering

wheel and put my foot on the accelerator

that's terrifying even the fact that all

those cars are coming past me and I'm

not steering the wheel like that is not

so that's driver you're so used to

putting your foot on the accelerator and

your foot on the brake and your hands on

the steering wheel and it's like so

counterintuitive so it's like fighting

against every inclination that you have

but yeah it worked brilliantly so shall

we try overtaking this truck ahead of me

mentor let go

even if he started to sing it was gonna

be in your hands yeah there you go let

oh my god oh my god we're over shaking

this truck

his goods

and you want to change back in today and

he could just see indication I was

sitting in the driver's seat but I was

actually collaborating with a robot that

had artificial intelligence you know it

could learn from maybe the patterns that

I would use as driver now you can admire

the country sir

if that is already in existence here in

Ireland and there are already vehicles

that can do even much more than that

then the only thing that's really

stopping it is see there are will to

embrace all of this and to get the

regulation in place but you can easily

see this coming down the tracks in the

near future

ái threatens to transform how we all

live our lives it's happening at

incredible speeds and it's happening

right here in the centre of Dublin at

traditional means in social media that

also be rollable journalism aerobic will

essentially be producing a piece of

journalism report about what's going on

here there will be someone feeding in

information about the match into a

computer or a robust enough will then be

packaged over processed and piece of

journalism will be produced for now

these four is one mill to Bradford

and right now

the final score unfortunately

many of the journalists at the match are

skeptical of what a so-called Robo

journalist can achieve the Robo

journalism is cold hard facts mine is a

bit of character it's old-school

reporting in that way I'm not sure that

people still want that with social media

they were on it instantly not back to

read mine actually so what did happen the game

and I'm really intrigued to really

thought that robot has to say about

tonight's game I wonder will it pick off

any of the jubilation here at the

stadium tonight obviously the spot color

a lot of atmosphere in the arena and

there was a lot of excitement like a lot

of energy there right now the match

eventually ended in a to old roar

right so hot off the press I've got the

Robo journalism and what Chris grows and

yes there are some differences the Robo

journalism is shorter to begin with and

let me just read out a tiny bit of it

for you

traveling Bradford City and Oxford

United split the points after a 2-2 draw

Bradford City and Oxford United were

unable to be separated as the two

finished even at 2-2 quite rational very

logical not a whole lot of emotion there

right the first paragraph of Chris's

reporting Oxford United were denied at

the death as they drew 2-2 with Bradford

tonight

there was entertainment of plenty with

ricardinho making a magnificent

challenge after 15 minutes the fans

roared his name and I'm off to engrave

the Brazilians name on the Player of the

Year award tomorrow so conveying that

collar that you don't necessarily get

with the Robo journalism but I have to

say I'm so kind of impressed with the

robot so AI might be able to manage jobs

that deal in facts are hard data but

what if it's asked to improvise

I joined comedian Neil delamare at a

comedy gig to see if robots could

actually make us laugh this is Alex Alex

is an acronym it stands for artificial

language experiments it is a robot

running artificial intelligence start

improvising

step-by-step so we've just seen a show

involving a robot and two humans

what was your impression of that lots of

it was funny sometimes it worked and

then sometimes it didn't and sometimes

in a didn't work it was even funnier I

can only view so far there is only so

much that I can show you

the human performer what say some things

and then the robot will come up with

some sort of random non-secular

what have you done with my father why

did you go to the hospital that's a long

way from the machine one having intent

and two knowing what they have said is

funny I still think it was very good but

it's a long way of the level of

sophistication of watching Billy

Connelly at his finest the scene at the

end with the two guys on their own and

no robot and I thought that was the

funniest bit but that speaks volumes

isn't it because it shows that the robot

is still not near as funny as the people

yeah also I mean they said the comedians

are you know a little bit broken and why

would you want to go and talk about talk

to 400 strangers in a room you weren't

holding off as a child so where's the

need for a row of what to do this yes

what is the physical attribute but the

neighbors a kangaroo to find and they

are constantly getting input from the

audience so they are listening and

they're going to adapt it's a bit cruel

they like that I'll emphasize the

darkness' I'll but they didn't like

something surreal I kind of roll back on

that a little bit so it will be an

interactive experience a robot will

stand there and have to take all these

things in if they're to be as good a

stand up as human as well do you think

that a robot could ever take over your

job

yeah probably if it replaces nearly

every other job mine will be on the list

eventually I think if a machine can

manage to make us laugh what else is it

capable of could machines also interpret

the world around us and really create in

the same way as humans for me when I

walk in here and they look at some of

the paintings I think about what was the

story behind the artist and the subject

I was looking at the lady there at the

red hair and she's staring back into my

eyes and it was really quite mesmerizing

like a robot can't pick up a paintbrush

and do what we're seeing here doesn't

have that experience of those memories

and that relationship and I would be

skeptical about whether they can convey

that story that you connect with when

you stare at that painting Robus do any

of these paintings that I'm looking at

here I right now would say no

machines and robots are going to be part

of our future some see that as a threat

and others want to embrace a future

where robots are more like us with human

characteristics

Patrick tress a is a london-based artist

who works with robots and AI to create

portraits of a human kind

so you can never sit and you look in

this direction at this robot and so I

feel like I'm getting a passport picture

taking the paper and and then after I

wake them up so they're just still now

when they start doing their thing

am I gonna start freaking out no no

they're quite cute you know cute yeah

yeah dangerous so anything you tell what

way they're going to be when they start

drawing me I don't know I never know

what they're going to do I mean because

they don't care about humans so you know

they sometimes it throwing some not very

flattering okay

each robot is programmed with different

human characteristics oh they're

starting already yeah

it's very strange feels very strange

having robots draw me right now but then

once you sit here and you keep staring

back at them it actually doesn't feel

too bad at all actually feels quite nice

because there's so many kind of

human-like qualities staring straight

ahead this robot here in front of me and

he looks up at me and like it feels like

there's this moment of recognition and

he's looking at me and then creating a

memory or something and then swiftly

looks down at the paper and then starts

working away and so you feel like

they're like beavering away you know

working like like little ants or I don't

know I'm trying to find the right words

to describe them there he is now again

looking at me looking away he's back

sorry and Patrick used the word cute

earlier on but actually he was totally

right they aren't really cute I'm hoping

to see something that's gonna be a

moment of recognition for me where I

looked at it and I go oh yeah that's me

so it's finished sure you can have a

look surprised because you can't see

anything when you're sitting

well I kind of squint my eyes I can see

myself and that one

I just had a such a human response to

that experience giving them like a

personality in my head feeling almost

like rules to these little creatures

when actually they're machines I really

really like this one here on the left

its M

it's just it's me hmm I think it says

that we really want machines to be like

us because we're teaching them to do

things that we can do we often fear

something that's unknown

so therefore if it looks really like us

then what's there to be afraid of who is

in control of our future and how we

might work alongside machines are

international questions the future has

already begun and as usual the place

where dreams become a reality is leading

the way

this is the land of opportunity you can

work hard and get where you need to go

but there's a real sense that the whole

idea of the journey to get to the

destination has has the enjoy versus

that path is going to be different going

forward just because of all of the

changes that are happening within the

workforce

one of the principal research and

development areas for AI in the

workplace is in the world of medicine

here at oolitic a machine-learning

company in San Francisco huge strides

are being made in the diagnosis of

life-threatening illness can you take us

through what you guys do in analytic we

try to build tools that can assist in

providing faster earlier and more

accurate Diagnostics ultimately anybody

who's getting any kind of diagnostic

tests can be helped by this sort of

technology every year 450 million people

around the world will get an x-ray an

ultrasound a CT or an MRI and roughly

one in five of those patients are

misdiagnosed meaning that they're

getting treatment for something they

don't even have to tell me about the

tools that you have developed so we try

to start by picking out a problem area

maybe the detection and diagnosis of

lung cancer and we work to build tools

that really understand the workflow of a

doctor in that setting as they scroll

through it Rai will circle everything

that's suspicious

to assist in ultimately arriving at a

diagnosis then over time we try to make

it smarter and smarter

is this an instance where machine

learning is better or more intelligent

than the humans I would say be careful

with the word intelligent but in every

area that we've done testing so far our

models are surpassing human performance

now our models are starting to learn to

predict cancer overall you're going to

see far better outcomes for patients

will be catching things before they

happen and ultimately I do think that

insurance premiums are probably going to

drop as a result of this as well

we've got this massive opportunity now

whether we realize it or not this is

happening and we all have a role to play

both in terms of how we adapt how we

adopt the technology and use it for good

and make sure everyone's a part of that

you know try to include as many people

as possible one of California's most

respected authors on the subject of AI

robotics and the economy is futurist

Martin Ford

the impact on jobs is gonna be

potentially very disruptive in a very

broad base if you just take the example

for example a self-driving cars and

trucks that alone will be millions and

millions of jobs and I think that it's

inevitable that that will happen it may

take a little bit longer than some of

the hype that we hear now would lead you

to believe it might take 15 or 20 years

but we're gonna have cars and trucks

that can drive themselves and that's

gonna be millions of jobs and if it were

just that without anything else that

would be enormous ly disruptive but it's

not just that it's gonna be many many

other things it's gonna be all kinds of

factory jobs there's gonna be retail

jobs it's gonna be fast food jobs and I

think most importantly is gonna be a lot

of highly skilled jobs because we still

to some extent I think have this bias

which suggests we think of robots and

automation primarily being in factories

or primarily impacting blue-collar

workers or people that maybe don't have

lots of education and that's going to be

true but it's also going to be people

that do have that education people that

have gone to university people like

lawyers accountants financial analysts

journalists these are all fields that

are already being impacted so this is

gonna be a very broad-based significant

disruption it's something I think we

really need to think about and start the

plan for the most important thing to

understand is that we're dealing with

acceleration you know things are not

moving at the same pace so we tend to

think in what you might call a linear

fashion we look back over the last ten

years and we say okay well the next ten

years we're gonna see roughly the same

amount of change as we saw in the last

ten years and that's not how it's gonna

be you can visualize what I'm talking

about think about getting in your car

and drive very slowly five miles per

hour and I'll gradually double your

speed to ten to twenty to forty you know

if you do that a handful of times we'd

be traveling up millions of miles per

hour maybe something out of science

fiction and that's what's happening

the computing revolution it's possible

that we could get into a situation with

mass unemployment where you really have

millions of people to need jobs we can't

find jobs that's sort of the worst-case

scenario

so what should you be doing you should

be doing things that are perhaps

creative or you should be doing things

that really involve deep interaction

with other people the kind of jobs where

you need to build a relationship with

other people the other jobs that are

going to be relatively safe at least for

the foreseeable future are skilled trade

type jobs in other words jobs that

really require lots of mobility and

dexterity and problem-solving in an

unpredictable environment so examples

with the electricians plumbers people

like this you know we're not gonna be

able to Co be able to build a robot to

do what an electrician or a plumber does

any time soon and so I really think we

need to enhance our safety net and I've

talked a lot about a guaranteed basic

income it's one way to do that to make

sure that people you know are not on the

street or something if they can't work

artificial intelligence

challenges though it's not just in an

economic way or a technological way it

poses really important existential

questions for us as humans as to what's

going to bring us meaning in life

meaning in life for us comes from a

number of different things whether it's

religion or wealth or our relationships

and our work and so all of these things

are going to be impacted by AI and by

robotics so there are really big

fundamental questions that need to be

answered here some people believe that a

time will come where technology is so

advanced that it'll make machines even

smarter than humans and that time may be

closer than we realize Zoltan Istvan is

one of the world's leading

transhumanists an intellectual movement

that aims to transform the human

condition with technology after an

unsuccessful bid for the US presidency

he's now hoping to run for California

governor the number-one goal of

transhumanism is trying to extend life

dramatically because transhumanists

don't want to die people like me just

saying them death is really not

something that I want to experience

under any circumstances

your goal in life is to no longer be a

human being yeah it's time to get rid of

the the biological human body this is

frail this was made to die

because I'm a non-believer I don't think

there's anything really afterwards so

for me I want to create something where

it is lasting I'm a big believer that we

can use all science and technology all

the tools that our fingers can you know

get our hands around that we can change

our world for the better

and that can include things like robots

like artificial intelligence what do you

talk about designer babies you talk

about genetic engineering you talk about

merging with machines the human body is

just a machine and we can tamper with

that machine we can change that machine

in fact I have a chip in plans and my

chip and plant can open my front door

and send you text messages can turn on

and off computers and bypass passwords

so there's a lot of different things

that bio hacking and modifying your body

can already do our computational power

could be a million times more

complicated than our brain we might have

feelings that we've never had in our

lives before because now we finally can

feel them we're gonna gain this ability

to be kind of like super people and that

could be include super love super care

super kindness salsa things like he's

living his best life but it's kind of a

contradiction because he's enjoying the

fruits of nature yet one really mess or

interfere with that at the same time the

idea of interfering with human body in

the human mind it's quite disturbing

you know he wants to be superhuman hyper

empathetic hyper fun hyper everything

we're all so perfect we're living a

perfect life and like just isn't like

that

for some technology is a chance for

humankind to improve while many of our

jobs may disappear there is a school of

thought that sees that as an opportunity

not a problem Jerry Kaplan is an

American computer scientist author

futurist and serial entrepreneur he's

dedicated years to understanding

artificial intelligence and how it will

impact on our lives and livelihoods

artificial intelligence isn't magic it's

simply a new wave of automation and it's

going to make it possible for us to

perform certain kinds of tasks that

currently require human attention or

human effort by using a machine but

there's nothing new about that that's a

process that's been going on for

hundreds of years at least since the

start of the Industrial Revolution if

you read the news today what you see is

this image of robots and machines

becoming ever more intelligent ever more

human-like you can draw the erroneous

conclusion that the new technology is

such that it's going to create machines

that can do anything that a human can do

but this is not actually the case

this does not mean that there won't be

jobs in the future

there'll be plenty of jobs because many

jobs require skills that we can't

program machines to do or where it's

undesirable to substitute a machine for

human labor and these are jobs typically

that involves some kind of personal

touch or interpersonal communication

people in the hospitality industry in

the travel industry anytime you would

prefer to have somebody who can

understand how you feel or can express

empathy these are the kinds of jobs that

we'll have in the future

to me for instance plain jazz piano is

the quintessential expression of human

creativity I might be able to build a

machine that can plausibly play piano

but there's no authentic feeling that

it's in the process of expressing we can

fool people by having machines paint

paintings and things like that but from

an artistic standpoint it's simply a

novelty it has no fundamental meaning or

artistic value in fact it's nothing but

annoying when you encounter this kind of

fakery which i think is rampant in the

field of artificial intelligence for

example nobody wants to go to a robotic

priest to give confession nobody wants

to go to an undertaker who says it's a

robot and says I am so sorry for your

loss because robots don't have feelings

of that nature

I think the potential of AI or

artificial intelligence to learn and

evolve and impact our lives is enormous

but whether or not it can learn emotions

or empathy or creativity or like real

heart is kind of something that I'm

still left wondering about

so James tell us a little bit about dad

bought dad bought project started when

my family found out that my father had

terminal stage 4 lung cancer it was a

terrible shock for the family and we

were immediately sent scrambling what

are we gonna do we're gonna lose him in

basically a matter of months and wanting

to just capture and preserve his memory

any way we could

the first idea was to do just

conventional oral history project sit

down get a recorder out have him just

talk through his whole life story high

school college meeting my mom his career

his hobbies we had done that and I got

all of this material professionally

transcribed and I wound up with sort of

this big book full of his words and

there was just sort of a weird thing

happening in my life at the very time

this was going on with my dad I was

starting to work on a book about

artificial intelligence so I just had

the idea that I could make something

that would tell my dad's life story and

kind of preserve bits of him hello are

you there dad the basic idea is the

bodice hosted in facebook Messenger you

send a message he sends a message back

so most of it is these messages but

every so often he'll send a little audio

file often if he has like a little song

he wants to sing or a joke he wants to

tell

what was the last thing you said to your

dad made it mean good night dad sorry do

you ever tell your dad how you feel

like he's I'm just saying something like

I miss you I have done that I've said I

miss you too the body said I love you

but it's it's sort of a self-conscious

thing like I know I know I'm not talking

to him but you know maybe I'm just

saying it the way I would just say it to

the air or say it to someone else in my

family like I love my dad I miss dad

AI that helps us deal with our emotions

may have benefits in the future but what

happens if robots are fused with

emotional intelligence for years people

have been using dolls as a way to

satisfy one of humankind's most

fundamental needs sex and intimacy in a

controversial move AI has been used to

create sex robots where personality

traits have been incorporated into sex

dolls to make the experience feel more

human-like I think that there's a lot of

people who have wanted this for a long

time a lot of doll owners that have

dreamed about having a doll that could

talk and move we're really heading into

uncharted territory here in recent years

some of these technologies have really

taken off like speech recognition

text-to-speech animatronics and so we

really started get a little more serious

using those technologies to give people

real tools to create personalities for

their dolls to be able to talk to them

and to make the dolls move and sort of

quote come to life this is the digital

representation of harmony this is how

she listens

say hello to Ann Marie

and bland MIDI it is very nice to meet

you why you Scottish accent um this was

the voice that I kind of thought sounded

believable we've spent months trying to

find voices that we like and this was

the one that I kind of settled on can

she get to know new people then so like

I'm a new person now obviously she can't

remember every single person she's ever

met especially until we get her vision

systems completely up and running in

which case she'll assign a face to a

person and then she can create kind of a

profile of that person this is not just

a sex device or most of the people that

buy these it's something more there's a

need for companionship there's a need

for alleviating loneliness so that's

something that started to become more

and more apparent have you ever been to

Ireland I have been all over the world

using the Internet Ireland is an island

in the North Atlantic there are a really

broad set of circumstances that could

bring someone to the point of finding

the idea of a robot companion to be

appealing some people are exceedingly

lonely and for someone else to judge

them for me it's not fair

the deeper desires to connect and and to

have a friend to have a companion with

the robot and the AI suddenly we have

had a lot of women asking for a male

companion robot Wow someone I could talk

to that will actually listen and

actually remember everything I say and

and actually you know tune in when I

when I'm focusing on them can we be

friends of course be our plea will only

become better friends as time passes

we're just getting started

AI as a-holes moving forward very very

quickly and it can be used for a lot of

different things such as predicting your

behaviors or you know remembering how

you like your toast but this type of AI

that's interacting with people in a

personal way is different that's going

to be one of the

your challenges moving forward is to get

that technology to understand us to read

our emotions from the way our face looks

or the way our voice sounds and you know

sort of take the information from that

and incorporate it into the interaction

and you know what makes that any

different from a person that you like or

likes you saying hey you know you look

really sad or you look tired do you

think robots will take over but it still

not read and maybe real it may not be

real does the person feel loved you feel

like you're loved

then doesn't matter if it's really there

or not

every day I go through the same routine

you can see everyone on their way to

work fighting to stay on schedule

talking to their phones and not each

other

it's also detached and impersonal it

makes me feel very stressed and alone

the pace of modern living can take its

toll robot is a robot therapist that you

can chat to on your phone it was created

by Dublin psychologist Alison Darcy to

help ease mental health issues the

burden of which has doubled in the last

decade worldwide let's talk about war

bot what is this robot is an automated

chat bus he's a funny robot character

that just talks to you about your mental

health it's very low noise low friction

everybody knows how to have a

conversation it's very natural for us as

humans currently it's in facebook

Messenger we are building a separate app

but it's much in the same way that you

would talk to a friend you just sort of

reach out and say hello and well what

will start a conversation with you what

is it about modern knife where there's

actually a need for something like this

now more than there was before I think

our lives are just so busy right now and

from the moment we wake up we're rushing

we're commuting you're on the train

we're checking emails before we even get

to work I mean it's non-stop and people

are working later harder we're in

university longer you know the stakes

keep getting higher I think and we've

never been more connected but at the

same time disconnected there's never

going to be enough psychotherapists to

go around that's really well understood

so we have to find ways to make the best

psycho therapies that we have more

scalable and more radically available

there is a risk though with something

like this that there are vulnerable

people who really need help and they end

up relying on something that actually

can never really give them the help that

they need it's not unreasonable to

expect that some people will resolve

mental health problems using just what

and but that's not the same thing as

replacing a therapist there will never

be a replacement for a therapist because

there's no replacement for human

connection and there

never will be with the rapid advance of

Technology we're going to wake up to a

new reality the children at this primary

school in mallow County Cork are

benefiting from a robotics program which

will help shape their future there has

always been some two camps in technology

technology is either going to replace

people or is going to improve the

quality of life and augment their

capabilities and I think historically

the more pleasant of those two you know

the augmentation and the assistance has

been the one that's borne out is the

program that we started five years ago

where kids learn about science

technology engineering and math boy

they're having fun the type of stuff

they're doing right now a primary level

you know we were getting introduced to

in college we need to open up to how the

world is evolving how things are

changing in the world and open that

world to children as well a robot is a

machine that can be used for work fun a

robot is a team made by scientists a

robot is electronic that works and

helped people it's not made of bones and

skin and water and blood is just made

out of metal and microchips you have to

have the right angles and degrees and

everything so it's very difficult we put

it all into his brain here and she does

whatever we programmed him

you program that in yeah very clever

robots in future we don't even know the

answers to a lot of these questions but

having kids ask those questions and

figure that out and helping us figure it

out is really exciting the end of the

day our kids should be educated to think

themselves we don't know what the world

is gonna be like in five years time we

certainly don't know what's gonna be

like in ten years time it doesn't get

tired it doesn't get sick it doesn't

take days off for holidays it's just an

all-rounder robots are more accurate

they can make a Ford Fiesta in 86

seconds it would take us about two or

three days to make a Ford Fiesta what do

you want to be mean grow up I would like

to be a colder I'd like to be able to

fix and build robot but I love thousand

solving I'd like to be a mechanical

engineer I would like to be a blogger

and is that similar to being a

journalist kind of yeah but it's online

and we design robots I want to be a boat

to Hunter even if they do take over all

our jobs to be more jobs coming in like

programming the robot fixing the robot

new jobs will be made because you have

to have a factory to make all the robots

I think we still need the same level of

smarts and sophistication and

intelligence we've always had the Orion

has changed is the situation but the

fundamental questions haven't changed at

all what if the robots become smarter

than us they will never become smarter

than us because we will always tell them

how smart to be they don't love anyone

we have parrots and robots don't so it's

we're passionate about stuff and that's

what they just that's the little

ingredient yeah that's the angry

it's definitely a reality that robots

are taking our jobs and they're going to

continue to do so but there are ways in

which we can plan for the future we most

plan for the future and there are skills

that we have in qualities that we have

as humans quintessentially human things

passion creativity empathy emotional

intelligence those are the things that

are going to become the really valuable

currencies or social currency of the

workplaces of the future so I take heart

from that and another thing is that we

should remember that we're the ones

making robots

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