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0:00:01 > 0:00:05A little later we've got Newswatch - but now on BBC News,
0:00:05 > 0:00:07it's time for Click.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Going into space has long been the dream of many a sci-fi fan
0:00:33 > 0:00:37and for one BBC presenter that dream is about to come true.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41and for one BBC presenter that dream is about to come true.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44In a world first for the broadcast industry, Spencer Kelly,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47who fronts the BBC technology programme Click, has been accepted
0:00:47 > 0:00:49by NASA to visit and report from the International Space
0:00:50 > 0:00:50Station.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52During his stay on board, he will present several
0:00:52 > 0:00:53episodes of Click.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Kelly, who says he has always harboured ambitions to leave planet
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Earth, will test how the latest technology performs in zero gravity.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02He says he's looking forward to the months of training
0:01:02 > 0:01:03ahead of him.
0:01:03 > 0:01:04That's not...that's not true.
0:01:04 > 0:01:05I'm so sorry.
0:01:05 > 0:01:06That shouldn't be on the autocue.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08That's my Christmas fantasy list.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12It's fake news!
0:01:12 > 0:01:13We are fighting the fake news.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15It's fake, phoney.
0:01:15 > 0:01:16Fake.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18The fake media tried to stop...
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Everyone's using the term these days.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23The problem is, it now seems to mean anything from actual lies
0:01:23 > 0:01:26to something you simply don't agree with.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29And the tech world is anguishing over how to sort
0:01:29 > 0:01:35fact from fiction, from opinion, from satire, from highly skewed
0:01:35 > 0:01:39and misleading headlines.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41And as a result, fact checking organisations are now working
0:01:41 > 0:01:46to counter the fake news effect.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49The First Draft Coalition operates around the world and in Germany it's
0:01:49 > 0:01:53working alongside journalists from a group to help
0:01:53 > 0:01:58improve online transparency.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01In the run-up to the recent election here, they published a
0:02:01 > 0:02:03daily newsletter, investigating the most popular stories on social
0:02:04 > 0:02:07media, suspected of being false or highly misleading.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11You look at an incident in a video, but then when you're trying to get
0:02:11 > 0:02:14verification you're looking largely away from the main incident
0:02:14 > 0:02:15and into the background.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Is what's being claimed in the captioned description in this
0:02:18 > 0:02:20video what is actually being seen in the video?
0:02:20 > 0:02:23One which showed a couple of maybe not traditional northern Europeans,
0:02:23 > 0:02:30a couple of dark skinned guys, waving their passports.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32This was claimed to be smug immigrants trampling all over
0:02:32 > 0:02:34German people's feelings.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39The tweets said they were insulting local Germans and provoking them.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Using simple tools such as reverse image searches to verify
0:02:42 > 0:02:46the original sources of videos and in this case a facility called
0:02:47 > 0:02:50'watch frame by frame', the journalists were able
0:02:50 > 0:02:54to identify the street name.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57The thing that helped me is there is a police officer walking
0:02:57 > 0:03:04through the video, back here.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07After locating the police squad in question they were able to get
0:03:07 > 0:03:10an eyewitness account of what happened, not just in front
0:03:10 > 0:03:14of the camera but also behind.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17Actually we discovered that behind the camera there are like 100 people
0:03:17 > 0:03:24insulting these three to four guys in the first place.
0:03:24 > 0:03:35They were if anything just reacting.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38The problem is that anything can look believable when it's published
0:03:38 > 0:03:38online and there is an ongoing debate about whether the platforms
0:03:38 > 0:03:41online and there is an ongoing debate about whether the platforms
0:03:41 > 0:03:44on which the stories are published should be the ones to police them.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Making sure that quality content and quality journalism is on top
0:03:47 > 0:03:48is a big mission.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51So that's why we work very closely with fact checking organisations
0:03:52 > 0:03:53and media organisations around the world.
0:03:53 > 0:04:01Just a couple of months ago we changed our ads policy around
0:04:01 > 0:04:08misleading news websites.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Wheoever ends up fighting the rising tide of fake news,
0:04:11 > 0:04:14one thing's for certain -
0:04:14 > 0:04:19ultimately we're going to need an automated fact-checking system.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Back in the UK, a stone's throw away from Westminster,
0:04:22 > 0:04:23lies Full Fact.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27This is an organisation that first came to the public attention around
0:04:27 > 0:04:30the time of the EU referendum.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33These guys have some pretty interesting fact checking tools.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36In this session of Prime Minister's Questions,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39the group is verifying claims using a mixture of manual
0:04:39 > 0:04:49and automated fact checking.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Using a combination of AI and machine learning,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54the algorithm will perform calculations and check facts
0:04:54 > 0:04:54with primary sources.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Eventually it could be used in a scenario such as this.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00There are 10,000 more training places available for nurses
0:05:00 > 0:05:03in the NHS, but the right honourable gentleman...
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Yeah, see, that's not right.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08That's an ambition for 2020, but it's currently not true.
0:05:08 > 0:05:18How cool would it be to debunk claims like that on the spot?
0:05:18 > 0:05:19GDP is rising.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21It's kind of like Shazam for facts.
0:05:21 > 0:05:26Nurses are using food banks.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28The tool that I'm most excited about is the speech
0:05:28 > 0:05:30to text checking.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34So it's when somebody is talking live and it takes you in real time
0:05:34 > 0:05:35to the primary sources.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38So if a journalist is in a press conference or if they are
0:05:39 > 0:05:41interviewing someone, they can see straightaway if there's
0:05:41 > 0:05:45something that the person in front of them has said is true or false,
0:05:45 > 0:05:47which is particularly cool.
0:05:47 > 0:05:55I so want that.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58I so want that! Have you used it in anger yet?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00I haven't used it in anger yet.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02All right. How ready is it?
0:06:02 > 0:06:05It's ready now, but it can only do one sentence at a time.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Do you think public figures will have to change
0:06:08 > 0:06:09the way they behave?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11There's no debate that can really happen without eventually hitting
0:06:11 > 0:06:14on numbers and the point at which you hit numbers it's
0:06:14 > 0:06:17important that they're correct and not being manipulated.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19That's the place we are starting from and the world
0:06:19 > 0:06:36we want to create.
0:06:36 > 0:06:3912,000 creatives under one roof, all geared up to find out what's
0:06:39 > 0:06:41next from the outfit that literally invented photoshopping.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44The answer - AI as we've never known it before.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Take this image of Denver, where an entire neighbourhood
0:06:46 > 0:06:49is expunged in a flash and replaced with something more aesthetically
0:06:49 > 0:06:50pleasing.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Instead of just trying to fill in the area with surrounding
0:06:53 > 0:06:56pixels, the software can now extract meaning from the image and make
0:06:56 > 0:07:00a smart substitute from its library of 100 million other pictures.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02A similar principle is at play here.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04The plaster now intelligently removed as the software can
0:07:04 > 0:07:07understand the protrusion in the middle of a person's face
0:07:07 > 0:07:08is a nose.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11And say you wanted to remove something or someone from a video.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Right now you could try it frame by painstaking frame.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16The chances are the result would look crude.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17But this demo is real.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20A research project we may well see in a future version
0:07:20 > 0:07:21of Adobe's products.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24In this era of fake news, the implications of being able
0:07:24 > 0:07:26to easily fool your audience are of course potentially
0:07:27 > 0:07:29troublesome, but Adobe is more interested in the creative
0:07:29 > 0:07:31potential of AI.
0:07:31 > 0:07:37We are trying to reimagine the entire creative process
0:07:37 > 0:07:40so you can create the way you want to.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Machines can see patterns and possibilities that we may not be
0:07:43 > 0:07:44able to see immediately.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47Adobe says AI should allow creatives more time for artistic expression
0:07:47 > 0:07:52and to be creative rather than doing boring and repetitive tasks.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55They say the entire creative process should be way more efficient and AI
0:07:55 > 0:08:08could potentially even second-guess our next moves.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12The tech also understands 3D, so you don't have to be an artist
0:08:12 > 0:08:15to easily design and iterate.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Few people would argue that AI is fantastic in terms of creating
0:08:18 > 0:08:22efficiencies in our work flows, but is there a danger that an over
0:08:22 > 0:08:24reliance on our machines instead of amplifying the creative process
0:08:25 > 0:08:26could eventually end up supplanting it?
0:08:26 > 0:08:27I actually don't think so.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30Creatives are distracted by all of the things that take
0:08:30 > 0:08:33multiple steps, make them suddenly move out of a right brain mode
0:08:33 > 0:08:36into a sort of procedural left brain mode.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37I don't think AI takes anything away.
0:08:38 > 0:08:44I think it ends up being this news at your elbow.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47I think it ends up being this muse at your elbow.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49And that's the prevailing view amongst creatives here,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52keen to embrace the possibilities offered up in an AI world.
0:08:59 > 0:09:04Were on our way to see her film, a movie, but
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Were on our way to see her film, a movie, but not as we know it, in
0:09:06 > 0:09:15virtual reality. This is 60, this is 6880. We are in. There are people
0:09:15 > 0:09:23down there, people down there wearing the VR headsets. It is a
0:09:23 > 0:09:27virtual relative film, it is super exciting. But right now you can only
0:09:27 > 0:09:33enjoy the comfort of your own home. It is not a social experience, we
0:09:33 > 0:09:36want to bring people together so that you can enjoy VR with your
0:09:36 > 0:09:49friends and family, your partner. Do I need popcorn? Is everyone ready to
0:09:49 > 0:09:59go? Let's do this. Showtime. Scary, suburbia. I'm looking down, I don't
0:09:59 > 0:10:03have any legs are anything, I'm not a person. I have been directed,
0:10:03 > 0:10:05have any legs are anything, I'm not a person. I have been directed, oh
0:10:05 > 0:10:12goodness, that is It down in the drain.I'm penny wise, the dancing
0:10:12 > 0:10:27clown.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29ALL SCREAM AND LAUGH A bit unnerving.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32I want to go home!
0:10:32 > 0:10:35The thing has appeared in front of me.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38We've got a collection of films five to ten minutes each and we're
0:10:38 > 0:10:40showing them back-to-back in a 40-minute montage.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44It's not the first VR cinema pop-up and none of the hardware the guys
0:10:44 > 0:10:45are using is cutting-edge either.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49But they have created a custom piece of software to link all the movie
0:10:49 > 0:10:52clips together and play them in sync across all the headsets
0:10:52 > 0:10:55via Bluetooth so people can have that shared cinema experience
0:10:55 > 0:11:01of being shocked all at the same time.
0:11:01 > 0:11:06Is this all just a novelty?It feels like I'm in a nightclub in Glasgow.
0:11:06 > 0:11:11That's horrendous.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Woah, OK, that's enough.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Actually it was quite fun to bring a group of friends together.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Not that I have any here.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21You can go out and have a shared experience, another group is coming
0:11:21 > 0:11:22in right now?
0:11:22 > 0:11:23Right now. OK.
0:11:23 > 0:11:24Masters of turnaround.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26We'd better be on our way.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29We'd better be on our way.
0:11:29 > 0:11:34That's it for the shortcut of Click this week.The full version is up on
0:11:34 > 0:11:46high player. We are also on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you for watching.
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