28/10/2017 Click - Short Edition

jurisdiction.

A little later we've got Newswatch -

but now on BBC News,

it's time for Click.

Going into space has long been

the dream of many a sci-fi fan

and for one BBC presenter that dream

is about to come true.

and for one BBC presenter that dream

is about to come true.

In a world first for the broadcast

industry, Spencer Kelly,

who fronts the BBC technology

programme Click, has been accepted

by NASA to visit and report

from the International Space

Station.

During his stay on board,

he will present several

episodes of Click.

Kelly, who says he has always

harboured ambitions to leave planet

Earth, will test how the latest

technology performs in zero gravity.

He says he's looking forward

to the months of training

ahead of him.

That's not...that's not true.

I'm so sorry.

That shouldn't be on the autocue.

That's my Christmas fantasy list.

It's fake news!

We are fighting the fake news.

It's fake, phoney.

Fake.

The fake media tried to stop...

Everyone's using

the term these days.

The problem is, it now seems to mean

anything from actual lies

to something you simply

don't agree with.

And the tech world is

anguishing over how to sort

fact from fiction, from opinion,

from satire, from highly skewed

and misleading headlines.

And as a result, fact checking

organisations are now working

to counter the fake news effect.

The First Draft Coalition operates

around the world and in Germany it's

working alongside journalists

from a group to help

improve online transparency.

In the run-up to the recent election

here, they published a

daily newsletter, investigating

the most popular stories on social

media, suspected of being false

or highly misleading.

You look at an incident in a video,

but then when you're trying to get

verification you're looking largely

away from the main incident

and into the background.

Is what's being claimed

in the captioned description in this

video what is actually

being seen in the video?

One which showed a couple of maybe

not traditional northern Europeans,

a couple of dark skinned guys,

waving their passports.

This was claimed to be smug

immigrants trampling all over

German people's feelings.

The tweets said they were insulting

local Germans and provoking them.

Using simple tools such as reverse

image searches to verify

the original sources of videos

and in this case a facility called

'watch frame by frame',

the journalists were able

to identify the street name.

The thing that helped me

is there is a police officer walking

through the video, back here.

After locating the police squad

in question they were able to get

an eyewitness account

of what happened, not just in front

of the camera but also behind.

Actually we discovered that behind

the camera there are like 100 people

insulting these three to four

guys in the first place.

They were if anything just reacting.

The problem is that anything can

look believable when it's published

online and there is an ongoing

debate about whether the platforms

online and there is an ongoing

debate about whether the platforms

on which the stories are published

should be the ones to police them.

Making sure that quality content

and quality journalism is on top

is a big mission.

So that's why we work very closely

with fact checking organisations

and media organisations

around the world.

Just a couple of months ago

we changed our ads policy around

misleading news websites.

Wheoever ends up fighting

the rising tide of fake news,

one thing's for certain -

ultimately we're going to need

an automated fact-checking system.

Back in the UK, a stone's throw

away from Westminster,

lies Full Fact.

This is an organisation that first

came to the public attention around

the time of the EU referendum.

These guys have some pretty

interesting fact checking tools.

In this session of Prime

Minister's Questions,

the group is verifying claims

using a mixture of manual

and automated fact checking.

Using a combination of AI

and machine learning,

the algorithm will perform

calculations and check facts

with primary sources.

Eventually it could be used

in a scenario such as this.

There are 10,000 more training

places available for nurses

in the NHS, but the right

honourable gentleman...

Yeah, see, that's not right.

That's an ambition for 2020,

but it's currently not true.

How cool would it be to debunk

claims like that on the spot?

GDP is rising.

It's kind of like Shazam for facts.

Nurses are using food banks.

The tool that I'm most

excited about is the speech

to text checking.

So it's when somebody is talking

live and it takes you in real time

to the primary sources.

So if a journalist is in a press

conference or if they are

interviewing someone,

they can see straightaway if there's

something that the person in front

of them has said is true or false,

which is particularly cool.

I so want that.

I so want that!

Have you used it in anger yet?

I haven't used it in anger yet.

All right.

How ready is it?

It's ready now, but it can only do

one sentence at a time.

Do you think public figures

will have to change

the way they behave?

There's no debate that can really

happen without eventually hitting

on numbers and the point

at which you hit numbers it's

important that they're correct

and not being manipulated.

That's the place we are

starting from and the world

we want to create.

12,000 creatives under one roof,

all geared up to find out what's

next from the outfit that literally

invented photoshopping.

The answer - AI as we've

never known it before.

Take this image of Denver,

where an entire neighbourhood

is expunged in a flash and replaced

with something more aesthetically

pleasing.

Instead of just trying to fill

in the area with surrounding

pixels, the software can now extract

meaning from the image and make

a smart substitute from its library

of 100 million other pictures.

A similar principle is at play here.

The plaster now intelligently

removed as the software can

understand the protrusion

in the middle of a person's face

is a nose.

And say you wanted to remove

something or someone from a video.

Right now you could try it frame

by painstaking frame.

The chances are the result

would look crude.

But this demo is real.

A research project we may well

see in a future version

of Adobe's products.

In this era of fake news,

the implications of being able

to easily fool your audience

are of course potentially

troublesome, but Adobe is more

interested in the creative

potential of AI.

We are trying to reimagine

the entire creative process

so you can create

the way you want to.

Machines can see patterns

and possibilities that we may not be

able to see immediately.

Adobe says AI should allow creatives

more time for artistic expression

and to be creative rather than doing

boring and repetitive tasks.

They say the entire creative process

should be way more efficient and AI

could potentially even

second-guess our next moves.

The tech also understands 3D,

so you don't have to be an artist

to easily design and iterate.

Few people would argue that AI

is fantastic in terms of creating

efficiencies in our work flows,

but is there a danger that an over

reliance on our machines instead

of amplifying the creative process

could eventually end

up supplanting it?

I actually don't think so.

Creatives are distracted

by all of the things that take

multiple steps, make them suddenly

move out of a right brain mode

into a sort of procedural

left brain mode.

I don't think AI

takes anything away.

I think it ends up being this

news at your elbow.

I think it ends up being this

muse at your elbow.

And that's the prevailing view

amongst creatives here,

keen to embrace the possibilities

offered up in an AI world.

Were on our way to see her film, a

movie, but

Were on our way to see her film, a

movie, but not as we know it, in

virtual reality. This is 60, this is

6880. We are in. There are people

down there, people down there

wearing the VR headsets. It is a

virtual relative film, it is super

exciting. But right now you can only

enjoy the comfort of your own home.

It is not a social experience, we

want to bring people together so

that you can enjoy VR with your

friends and family, your partner. Do

I need popcorn? Is everyone ready to

go? Let's do this. Showtime. Scary,

suburbia. I'm looking down, I don't

have any legs are anything, I'm not

a person. I have been directed,

have any legs are anything, I'm not

a person. I have been directed, oh

goodness, that is It down in the

drain.

I'm penny wise, the dancing

clown.

ALL SCREAM AND LAUGH

A bit unnerving.

I want to go home!

The thing has appeared

in front of me.

We've got a collection of films five

to ten minutes each and we're

showing them back-to-back

in a 40-minute montage.

It's not the first VR cinema pop-up

and none of the hardware the guys

are using is cutting-edge either.

But they have created a custom piece

of software to link all the movie

clips together and play them in sync

across all the headsets

via Bluetooth so people can have

that shared cinema experience

of being shocked all

at the same time.

Is this all just a novelty?

It feels

like I'm in a nightclub in Glasgow.

That's horrendous.

Woah, OK, that's enough.

Actually it was quite fun to bring

a group of friends together.

Not that I have any here.

You can go out and have a shared

experience, another group is coming

in right now?

Right now.

OK.

Masters of turnaround.

We'd better be on our way.

We'd better be on our way.

That's it for the shortcut of Click

this week.

The full version is up on

high player. We are also on Facebook

and Twitter. Thank you for watching.

-- iPlayer.