Incredible bionic arm powered by A.I. and THOUGHT 🦾 | BBC

Professor Mike Wooldridge asks: what is artificial intelligence? He compares how AI works and learns with how the human brain functions. Exploring the roots of AI, Mike reveals how Alan Turing devised the Imitation Game – a test of whether a machine answering a series of questions could pass as a human. The audience in the lecture theatre play a real-life version of the game to find out if AI can pass this test today. In this lecture, Mike examines real-life neurons in action and explains how artificial neural networks are inspired by neural structures in the brain. To demonstrate how AI learns, we watch drones as they are trained to recognise and fly through structures in the lecture theatre autonomously. AI exploded into the public consciousness in 2022 with the release of ChatGPT and boasts around 100 million monthly users. Mike unravels the mystery of how large language models like ChatGPT work, and he finds out if one day this technology - along with a whole suite of different AI tools - will allow us to understand the animals we share this planet with. The Christmas Lectures are the most prestigious event in the Royal Institution calendar, dating from 1825, when Michael Faraday founded the series. They are the world’s longest running science television series and always promise to inspire and amaze each year through explosive demonstrations and interactive experiments with the live theatre audience.

[roro-mmcc]

"I was in a terrible accident and as a result lost my arm and leg" Him: "WOW - that's incredible 😃"

[thesilverwolf]

Her “I basically got ran over by a train…” him “ that’s incredible!”

[Smewhat_Damaged]

“I was in a terrible accident”
“Incredible, now show us your party trick”

[csibesz]

"That's incredible."
"I can watch that all night." 💀

[NecroMorrius]

What a radiant woman. I doubt this is at all important to her, but she looks cool as heck wearing her prosthetics.

[CMON]

Incredible tech, and it only cost her an arm and a leg.

[TheMrblessed]

"I lost my arm and my leg"
"Wow, that's incredible"
SMH

[redrob]

"I was in a horrific accident."
"Lovely stuff."

[ColinPoole]

When she is finally ready to drive a car again they will be like "sorry, all the cars drive themselves now"

[lamizor]

Dam I wanted that to end with a hand shake that twists his arm 😂😂

[looneycrow]

Oh you lost your limbs have you?! That's incredible!...

[TheRealSimeon]

What a well-spoken woman. No uhms, no ahs. Not too quick. Not too slow.

She explained everything efficiently and in such a way that it is easy to understand. Well done to her 👏

[leod]

The arm is cool the woman’s perspective on life is amazing

[jaker]

In the future she'll be able to punch through a Cybertruck door.

[mustafaname]

Can't imagine the trauma this poor woman has been through. Congratulations to the people working on this technology: the arm, the sensors and the software
- amazing, brilliant work! Keep going.

[Omega_Prime]

From the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me, i craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessened machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. The crude biomass that you call the Temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you but I am already saved. FOR THE MACHINE IS IMMORTAL. Even in death i serve the Omni-siah 🤖

[Trollseeder]

0:07 "Wow that's incredible" 💀

[melissaparody]

Wow, what a lovely and resilient woman, this work is phenomenal, glad they chose such an inspirational person to trial the prototype❤💎🎖👍

[rayhans]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

[NoName-ikdu]

I saw another video about bionic arms recently. Not sure if it was this same model, but the one I saw talked about sensors in the hand that gave the user pressure feedback so that they could regulate their strength appropriately. It was pretty cool.

She could also drive a car without her right arm if she bought an automatic. I have an automatic transmission, and I almost never use my right arm while driving.