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Ryan Bridge: Can we trust AI? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The robots are coming, look out everybody, and they reckon
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  Speaker 1: they'll be better. Are us than us humans doing really difficult,
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  Speaker 1: complex stuff like being a doctor. Microsoft has announced overnight
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  Speaker 1: an artificial intelligence system, which I am just calling a
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  Speaker 1: robot that performs better. This is what they're arguing performs
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  Speaker 1: better than a human doctor at complex health diagnosis. This
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  Speaker 1: is according to Guardian reporting. In the last couple of hours,
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  Speaker 1: they say Microsoft's come out, their AI unit has come
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  Speaker 1: out and said they're creating a path to medical superintelligence.
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  Speaker 1: Lookout world. So they think in their case studies that
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  Speaker 1: their AI doctor solves or correctly diagnosed eight out of
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  Speaker 1: ten case studies, really complex ones eight out of ten.
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  Speaker 1: The real doctors who didn't have access to the Internet
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  Speaker 1: or to books or anything, the real doctors two out
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  Speaker 1: of ten. So who you're going to trust? And that's
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  Speaker 1: the question you start asking yourself. Do you trust AI
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  Speaker 1: to make important decisions like health decisions on your behalf?
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  Speaker 1: Even though doctors don't always get it right. The thought
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  Speaker 1: of a computer deciding your fate is kind of weird,
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  Speaker 1: hard to get used to. But if it's shown to
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  Speaker 1: work reliably, if it's accurate, and I suppose why not. China, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: is into robots big time. A company there wants a
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  Speaker 1: humanoid robot cleaning our dishes and washing our clothes in
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  Speaker 1: a matter of years. They had an exhibition this week.
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  Speaker 1: They want one robot for every home and this I
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  Speaker 1: can get on board with. But you've got to ask.
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  Speaker 1: With the robots apparently taking every job under the sun,
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  Speaker 1: they'll be cutting our hair soon, what are we going
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  Speaker 1: to do once they've completed their mission to take over
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  Speaker 1: the world? What do we do for work? Seventy seven
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  Speaker 1: percent of companies are either using AI right now or
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  Speaker 1: are actively trying to. Year on year growth for this
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  Speaker 1: industry is now at more than one hundred percent. Seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven percent of all devices in the world are currently
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  Speaker 1: using some form of AI, and I get why this
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  Speaker 1: is happening and everything from health to housework, because it's
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  Speaker 1: far more efficient and cost effective to do this. But
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  Speaker 1: with so much of the work being done by others,
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  Speaker 1: what's left to occupy our time? For more from Early
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