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What Next For Artificial Intelligence?

Rory Cellan-Jones and guests look at key developments in AI during 2017 and what's coming in 2018.

Creating new medicines and teaching autonomous cars to drive are just two of the jobs that AI is already working on. Rory Cellan-Jones looks at what’s happening with AI in healthcare, transport, and considers the ethical issues involved in developing this technology further in 2018. With contributions from Jerome Pesenti, CEO of BenevolentAI and former Vice-President of IBM’s Watson Platform, Martha Lane Fox, dotcom pioneer and director of Twitter, Luciano Floridi from the Digital Ethics Lab at Oxford University, and Chris Hoyle from British simulation company rFpro. With special guests Tabitha Goldstaub of CognitionX and Azeem Azhar, author of The Exponential View newsletter.

(Image: Mock-up of a driver behind the wheel of an autonomous car, and how the vehicle might see its surroundings, Credit: iStock/ Getty Images).

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23 minutes

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Fri 29 Dec 2017 18:06GMT

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