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Now on BBC News, it's time for Click. | 0:00:01 | 0:00:04 | |
This week, mapping the poorest parts of the world. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
Inside a shopper's mind. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
And, hands up who is not flying the plane? | 0:00:12 | 0:00:16 | |
Thanks for the information. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:40 | |
Pay attention. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
We are living in interesting times. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:48 | |
There are things happening in artificial intelligence right | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
now that will fundamentally change our world. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:55 | |
Soon, machines will learn to do our jobs. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
They will learn to walk. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
They will learn to drive. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
And at that point, things get very interesting. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:11 | |
We'll talk more about the consequences of an automated | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
society in a few minutes but, after thinking, walking and driving, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:20 | |
have you ever wondered how hard it would be for a computer to fly? | 0:01:20 | 0:01:26 | |
I'm not talking about drones that can fly between points, follow | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
a target or perform circus tricks. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:36 | |
I'm talking about aircraft that could intelligently | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
decide on a flight plan, just as a human would. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:43 | |
And that is what Mark has been hunting down. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
Here at BAE Systems in Woolton in Lancashire, they are used | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
to the roar of jet engines. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:58 | |
They built and have tested Eurofighter Typhoons here. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
Today, however, I am going to take a flight in an aircraft that is much | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
slower than a Typhoon. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
This is a Jetstream 31, a small passenger aircraft. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
It's a design from the 1980s but it's currently used by BAE | 0:02:13 | 0:02:19 | |
Systems as a flying test-bed for technology which could lead | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
to fully autonomous aircraft. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
Maureen McCue is head of research here. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
Tried and tested. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
Very well flown and understood aircraft from the outside, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
but on the inside, it's filled with the latest technology. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:40 | |
That technology will eventually allow this aircraft to fly | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
itself autonomously. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
Today, they are testing the plane's ability to detect and avoid | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
clouds as well as testing its satellite communication systems. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
But take-off and landing will still be handled by human | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
pilots and the plane will be remotely controlled | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
at some points, too. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
How does this fit into the autonomous equation? | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
At the moment, it's effectively a remotely controlled aircraft. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
It is, and really, with autonomous operations, | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
you need to progressively expand the boundary. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
You can't start with such a big bang right out at the full range | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
of capability of operations. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
This humble looking outbuilding houses the grand station. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
Here, a pilot will remotely fly the plane and he can ensure it | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
will react to instructions from air traffic control. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:37 | |
I would expect to see a joystick and images coming | 0:03:37 | 0:03:43 | |
through from the cockpit but you're not going to be flying | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
like that at all, are you? | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
No, everything is through the numbers that you can see there. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
Altitude, speed. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:51 | |
Time for take-off. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:52 | |
These flights are taking place in uncongested airspace. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
Today, we will be flying over the Irish Sea. | 0:03:55 | 0:04:02 | |
One minute to handover point. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:07 | |
To help fly itself, this aircraft uses data from satellites | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
as well as identifying radio signals broadcast by other aeroplanes, so it | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
knows who it's in the sky with. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
It is also fitted with a camera that can see other air | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
users, even if there are not warning signals. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
So right now, the pilots aren't actually flying the aircraft. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
This gentleman right here is. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:38 | |
From that 15-year-old Dell laptop that's running Windows XP. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
At this point, the aircraft is flying autonomously with a human | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
watching what it's doing. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
Handing control of the computing over to the autopilot in the back | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
and once established on the route, I can hand the computing | 0:04:51 | 0:05:04 | |
over to Clive on the ground by the satellite. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
So that little shed-like building we were in earlier with Clive | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
in front of the computer, he is now flying the aircraft. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
Over the course of the testing of this aircraft, it's going to have | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
to perform a variety of different, complex tasks. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
For instance, it's going to have to recognise and avoid bad weather. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
Not just weather, but other aeroplanes too. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:23 | |
It will eventually be able to select a safe landing spot | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
and touchdown by itself. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
Today, we can't really test its weather detection | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
abilities, though, as, unusually for the UK, | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
we have a cloudless sky. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
BAE suggests that autonomous aircraft could be used | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
to perform dirty, dangerous or repetitive tasks. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
But could this technology be introduced into | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
commercial air travel? | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
At the moment all commercial aircraft have a set number of crew. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:52 | |
There are programmes in existence looking at how you reduce crew | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
either planned from the outset or, in the case of an emergency, | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
you've got the autonomous system as a fallback so that you can | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
still have perhaps a two-crewed aircraft on a certain length | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
of flight but one of the crew happens to be an autonomous helper | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
as opposed to a real person. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:14 | |
We're going to end up in the Hudson. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
I'm sorry, say that again. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
But what happens when things go wrong? | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
This is the captain. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:22 | |
Brace for impact. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:27 | |
While aerospace manufacturers are exploring the possibilities | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
of fewer cockpit crew, what do commercial pilots think? | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
To find out, we paid the British Airline Pilots Association a visit. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:42 | |
Many decades of looking at aviation has brought us to the position | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
where we have come to the conclusion it's best to have two | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
pilots in the cockpit, because if you reduce that to one, | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
the problem you've got then is you've got no one to cross check | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
each other's decisions. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:56 | |
Take for example, the miracle on the Hudson. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
Captain Salinger. | 0:06:58 | 0:06:59 | |
When the aircraft lost both its engines, the pilots had | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
to have a discussion and they decided their only course | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
of action was to land on the river. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
No computer can be programmed to do that. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:11 | |
The flight testing of autonomous aircraft continues but the debate | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
about regulating them and how they are going to be used has | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
really only just begun. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
That was Mark and this is Tim Harford, columnist | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
for the Financial Times and Tim, you've written a book about how | 0:07:24 | 0:07:28 | |
the systems that we now rely on can sometimes backfire. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:35 | |
What do you make of the idea of planes that might only need one | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
pilot or even no human pilots? | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
It's exciting, isn't it? | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
And of course, auto pilots have made planes safer | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
but what worries me is, what happens when | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
something goes wrong? | 0:07:49 | 0:07:50 | |
No system is perfect, including a system where | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
the humans fly the plane. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
I guess when it goes wrong, it has two hand back | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
to the human in the cockpit. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
Autopilot hands back to the human in the cockpit but then what? | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
The human is out of practice, the human is not used to flying | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
the plane and because the autopilot has failed, it's probably | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
in an unusual situation. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
There was a worrying example of this a few years ago. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
An Air France crash over the Atlantic Ocean. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
The plane was flying quite high above a storm. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
The autopilot disconnected and the pilots just weren't used | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
to flying at high altitude. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:29 | |
They were only used to operating the plane on take-off and landing | 0:08:29 | 0:08:33 | |
and they flew a perfectly good plane into the Atlantic Ocean | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
because they were confused about what was happening. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
They killed everybody on board, an absolute tragedy, and this | 0:08:39 | 0:08:42 | |
is the paradox of automation. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:43 | |
The autopilots are normally so safe, so reliable, | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
that when they fail, the pilots find | 0:08:46 | 0:08:47 | |
themselves so confused. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
I guess the next question is, what about autonomous cars? | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
We have been talking about how they will blissfully drive us around | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
and we won't have to take control. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:03 | |
I suppose for the foreseeable future, they won't be good enough | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
to be 100% reliable? | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
I guess they'll never be 100% reliable but the model | 0:09:09 | 0:09:14 | |
where if it's confused, it hands back to the human, | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
it's not going to work. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
You are there with your bagel, your coffee, your newspaper. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
You look up, there's a bus coming towards you, and the car goes, | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
autopilot disengaged, human take control, it clearly not | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
going to work in that way. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
What makes more sense is for the human to be driving | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
and for the computer to be watching out for a dangerous situation, | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
for the computer to take over if there's a problem. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
Humans get bored, get distracted, lose their skills. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
None of these things happened to computers. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:48 | |
But I guess we are in an extended period of time before the far future | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
happens and computers drive and fly us. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
We've got possibly decades if not a century of being in this | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
interim period where, if there is a problem, | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
we are going to end up blaming them for this really unusual, | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
weird crash that a human wouldn't have made. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:09 | |
Yes, and I think a glimpse of that is where we are asking | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
the computers to make a decision not about planes or cars but about, | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
for example, who'll get a promotion or who gets a special deal in a shop | 0:10:16 | 0:10:20 | |
or who gets arrested for shoplifting because the computer | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
recognises your face. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
We are already asking computers to make this sort of decision | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
and the lesson of the paradox of automation is that we need to be | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
much more savvy about the fact that computers do make mistakes | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
and we need to take this seriously. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
Thank you very much, Tim. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
Thank you. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:39 | |
Don't trust the machines. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
Hello and welcome to The Week In Tech. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:46 | |
It was the week that inventor Haiyan Zhang developed a smart | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
wristband to help people with Parkinson's disease | 0:10:50 | 0:10:51 | |
draw in a straight line. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:55 | |
The device's in-built motors vibrate to distract | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
the user and reduce tremors. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
It was also the week that we discovered queueing | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
at the shops and using those beyond infuriating self-service | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
checkouts could soon be a thing of the past. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
Amazon has unveiled a sci-fi store in Seattle that uses your smartphone | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
and advanced technologies like deep learning, computer vision and sensor | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
fusion to automatically detect when products are taken | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
off its shelves. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:23 | |
When you're done, you can simply trot off and then wait | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
for that gargantuan virtual receipt to follow. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:31 | |
And if you feel like you're forever stuck in traffic, | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
Audi has rolled out an update to make every second count. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
Its new traffic light information feature tells drivers exactly how | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
long they'll have to wait behind a red signal before it turns | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
green and the length of time it will stay green. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
It works by connecting directly to the city's | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
traffic management centre. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
And finally, robotic research has reached new heights, literally. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:58 | |
This hopping mad bot developed at UC Berkley cannot only jump a meter off | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
the ground but can then again jump off objects to reach | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
even greater heights. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
Inspired by the agility of bushbabies, researchers hope | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
it can one day identify jumping spots for itself. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:17 | |
Also in the news, the news. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
Which these days isn't guaranteed to be true. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:32 | |
In the run-up to the US election, for example, the Speaker | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
of the House of Representatives did not get naked, the Pope did not | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
endorse Donald Trump and he did not win the popular vote, | 0:12:39 | 0:12:44 | |
but these stories, from websites posing as real news sites, | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
were heavily shared on Facebook. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
Of course, it doesn't help that in 2016, the real news sounds | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
sounds just as made up. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
But anyway, it's made events like the Trust Hack here in London | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
even more timely and urgent. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:03 | |
Here, journalists and technologists from large news organisations | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
are workshopping ways to help readers tell the difference | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
from well-researched journalism, propaganda, advertising, | 0:13:09 | 0:13:10 | |
satire and complete hogwash. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:17 | |
The thought is to provide images like icons back-up materials | 0:13:17 | 0:13:22 | |
that the public could see connected to a piece of news and then it | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
would send a signal back to the news distribution platform like Google | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
or Twitter so that they can identify quality news out of the fake news | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
and elevate it in search and social. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
There are already projects afoot to try to flag up stories on sites | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
known to generate fake news like this plug-in | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
but the ideas here are not about blacklisting sites or producing | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
automated fact-checking systems. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 | |
Both would be massive undertakings and would themselves provoke cries | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
of bias and censorship. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
This is more about letting news organisations prove to their readers | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
that they are trustworthy. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
The journals of the Washington Post, I work with some amazing people. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
We produce really great stuff and they remain really | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
committed to continuing that. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
The tools that we are building here are just a way for us | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
to communicate that we are putting in the effort, | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
where our stuff is coming from, who we are talking to. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
We have access to great sources. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:22 | |
We are trying to create something that would easily allow audiences | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
to verify for themselves what sources we have used. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
You'd be able to click and see, who did we talk to, | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
and you'd click on that. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
Readers want to feel like journals are being held accountable to them | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
and this is a way of doing that. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
We are showing our work. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:42 | |
Other ideas here include ways to fight information bias | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
by surfacing articles that support the opposite side of an argument | 0:14:45 | 0:14:53 | |
or to check the likelihood of truth by finding similar articles | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
by other outlets. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:57 | |
Many think the reputation of the journalists themselves plays | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
a big part in the trustworthiness of reporting. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
Italian newspaper La Stampa is suggesting a system | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
where an author is assigned a unique identifier that shows | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
their piece can be trusted. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:12 | |
Come on. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:12 | |
Best platform goes to... | 0:15:13 | 0:15:14 | |
La Stampa. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:18 | |
The best ideas won a small prize at the end of the day but it's | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
the taking part that counts here. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
The hope is that this part-Google funded initiative may lead | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
to a system that helps news outlet stories rank high up on search | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
engines and social media. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
That said, I can't help wondering if that is actually something that | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
platforms like Google and Facebook really want. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:40 | |
Do you think they care what it is they serve to us or do | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
you think, really, as long as you click on it, that's | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
what they're interested in? | 0:15:47 | 0:15:56 | |
How do we know the motivations of any company? | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
Money. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
These companies make their money through people clicking | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
on the adverts, so do you think any of the large companies care | 0:16:02 | 0:16:05 | |
what it is they present to you? | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
Based on my conversations with them, I think they do. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
The argument would be if they start being perceived as not caring | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
about the information that's sent out there, | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
that damages their reputation. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:27 | |
Yes, it may be that the truth will out, not because of a desire | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
for the facts, but because everyone, readers and news aggregators, | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
ultimately don't want to lose face. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:47 | |
More and more people are shopping online but still at this time | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
of year, the high street seems pretty chaotic and the retailers | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
want to make sure it stays that way. | 0:16:53 | 0:17:05 | |
So they are trying to create some more engaging experiences. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
But do they help us or are they just a distraction? | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
Here in London's Covent Garden, 140 shops and restaurants are taking | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
part in creating one huge augmented reality experience. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:16 | |
With the help of AR app Blipper, things come to life. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
It may not have created the personalised shopping experience | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
I dreamt up, but there were some promotional offers presented | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
as virtual Christmas presents almost around the tree. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
A reindeer hunt and a giant reindeer you can take a selfie with, | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
if the mood takes you. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:41 | |
I have to say, it wasn't quite as cutting-edge as I'd hoped | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
but I suppose it's a bit of light-hearted fun. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
Rather more purposefully, the signs in windows can be scanned | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
using image recognition, taking you to online content, | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
partly the sort of stuff you'd be able to look at from your sofa | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
but with a few extras to boot. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
Then came our trip to London's Westfield where augmented | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
reality has had a makeover. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:06 | |
We've seen technology like this before but now it's actually | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
on the shop floor here at Charlotte Tilbury. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
This is what's known as the Magic Mirror and this | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
is what it does. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:33 | |
You choose a lipstick and in real-time, you will see | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
your face transformed. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:37 | |
Bright red lips, although it doesn't seem to have any around the edges, | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
I think that looks all right. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
I've tried the Rimmel app that does something similar on your phone | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
and you can buy things through it, but here you can do it in the store | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
with assistants all around and a whole shop of products that | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
you can test, smell, and after you see what your face | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
looks like on here, you might want to have a go to check that | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
you can do it yourself that well. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
Meanwhile, here at this eBay event, they are taking things | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
a step further. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:04 | |
They want to get inside your mind. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:06 | |
The data on this screen represents what is apparently visitors | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
emotional responses to products. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:10 | |
Using what they call facial coding, the camera looks for reactions | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
which these guys reckon you have when you do online shopping. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
Nice but don't know who I'd give it to. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
Interesting. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:24 | |
That's ridiculous. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:24 | |
And I've been told to overact my reactions. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
Oh, that's cute. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:28 | |
Whilst my results bore absolutely no correlation to what I'd liked, | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
maybe they were the ones I contorted my face to the most. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
Maybe it would have worked better if I'd reacted more naturally, | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
although I struggle to imagine that my face would have shown anything. | 0:19:37 | 0:20:09 | |
Now, in 2015, members of the United Nations adopted a set | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
of sustainable development goals. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:13 | |
Number one on that list is to end poverty and to achieve that goal, | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
you first need to work out where poverty exists and how | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
to measure it. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:33 | |
We met up with some scientists at Stamford who have that | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
task in hand. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:36 | |
Marshall Burke is a professor of earth systems science | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
at Stanford University but he spends much of his time in Africa | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
gathering poverty data. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:43 | |
The way this is done is to elicit from the household a listing | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
of everything they've consumed in the last week, | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
the last month. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:49 | |
So literally everything they've consumed. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
Every single thing and the value of that item and then you add up | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
all these items for every single person in the household. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
This can take hours and hours just for one single household. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
Then you have to do this for thousands of households to get | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
a representative sample of the area. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:05 | |
It's painstaking work but Burke has teamed with computer science | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
students to test a new method. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:18 | |
Using machine learning to predict poverty data | 0:21:18 | 0:21:20 | |
by analysing satellite images. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:21 | |
But to find out whether the people living in those areas are rich | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
or poor, the researchers used a process called transferred | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
learning and this image of the Earth at night. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:32 | |
The parts of the world that are lit up are typically the wealthier parts | 0:21:32 | 0:21:36 | |
of the world. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:42 | |
So basically we use the lower resolution night-time images to help | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
us figure out what in the really high resolution daytime images | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
we should should be using and then we use that to predict poverty | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
on the ground. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:58 | |
Between 300 and 400,000 images were used to train the algorithm. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
The algorithm will figure out what's important, | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
what it should be looking for. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
So some of the things it finds are things that | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
you or I would recognise, things like roads, | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
urban areas, farmland. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:10 | |
Based on those features, the algorithm can predict | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
what a family owns. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:14 | |
Things like refrigerators, cars, the sum of all those assets. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
It can also be used to predict incomes. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
These poverty maps show the team's findings. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:20 | |
In areas marked red, people spend as little | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
as $1.5 a day. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:24 | |
In green regions like Uganda's capital, Kampala, they spent | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
closer to $8. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:29 | |
We are providing a very cheap and scalable alternatives | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
to traditional means of data collection. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
Traditionally, you have to send people out into the field | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
with clipboards, the surveys aren't always accurate, | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
there can be corruption. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:47 | |
Like for example lots of governments where they are underperforming, | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
they don't want true surveys. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:51 | |
All we need to make our predictions are satellite images. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
But can you draw conclusions about the economic well-being | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
of communities in Africa when you're thousands of miles away, | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
sitting at a laptop in an office at Stamford? | 0:22:59 | 0:23:04 | |
We actually have really good survey information in a few locations. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
We can use the satellite imagery to make a prediction about poverty | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
and then we can compare that to what the survey says was actually | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
going on on the ground there. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:15 | |
So we used a couple of the really good surveys we had to validate | 0:23:15 | 0:23:19 | |
our satellite input. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:20 | |
To be a truly useful tool though, the algorithm needs an upgrade. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
We would also like to use historical imagery so maybe we can figure out | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
how poverty dynamics work overtime and even give us the chance | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
of predicting what's going to happen in the future. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
If you can pinpoint poverty on a map, aid could be distributed | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
more evenly, policies could be more effective. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:39 | |
People would get help faster. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
A picture may be worth a thousand words but combining that picture | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
with artificial intelligence could make a world of difference. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
That was Sumi and that's it for this week. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:49 | |
You can follow us on Twitter @BBCClick for backstage fun | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
and photos and extra technology news throughout the week. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:58 |