Delivering much information about the scale of what's coming, documentary also follows Gawdat's campaign to get the programs with empathy A nother day, another warning about AI; vis-a-vis the reality we all know, this has roughly the same reassuring effect as a plane fuselage ripping off mid-flight. Starting off with familiar criticisms, such as putting the world out of work and handing over power to tech barons, Alex Holmes and Lina Zilinskaite's film blasts an concentrated stream of AI concerns in its 83-minute runtime. By the time it is talking about current efforts to create computers out of human brain cells, potentially integrable into our own craniums, and implying this might be a good thing, it is (ironically) hard to know how to process all of this. The Cassandra at the film's centre is Mo Gawdat, former chief business officer at Google X, now a touring cautionary voice trying to get the world to listen about the perils of AI. Once overseeing advanced projects for the tech giants, his biggest moonshot lies ahead: to introduce a moral dimension into a tech race that looks increasingly like the frenzied season finale of late capitalism. He talks about feeling parental pride in watching Google's AI-driven robotic arms learn to grasp objects, as children do.

Another former Google chief has warned against the dangers of artificial intelligence, saying it could come to view humanity as'scum' and even take over military drones to exterminate us. Mo Gawdat, the former chief business officer at Google's secretive R&D wing X, said the technology had the power to'love' humanity or to'squish' humanity'like flies.' He is the second staffer at the search giant to warn about the power of AI in as many weeks, after their'Godfather of Artificial Intelligence ' Geoffrey Hinton resigned, issuing his own dire warnings about our AI future. At Google's X, Gawdat said he thought of the AI they created as his'children,' but now he has some regrets about that parenthood. 'I've lived among those machines.

Artificial intelligence outperforms human intelligence. It can digest data at breakneck speed and stay concentrated on a single job without being distracted. AI can forecast events in the future and utilize sensors to look around physical and virtual corners. So, why does AI get it so wrong all of the time? The algorithms that describe how artificial intelligence works are created by humans, and the processed data represents an imperfect reality.

Mo Gawdat is the chief business officer at Google X – the "moonshot factory" responsible for some of the company's more audacious projects, such as self-driving cars and a balloon-powered global internet. Before he joined Google, while working as stock trader and tech executive in Dubai and in response to a period of depression, he used his engineer's mindset to create an "equation for happiness". The equation says that happiness is greater than, or equal to, your perception of the events in your life minus your expectation of how life should be. When his 21-year-old son Ali died during a routine operation, Gawdat turned to the equation, which they had worked on together, in an attempt to come to terms with his tragic loss. Gawdat's book, Solve for Happy, explains the theories underpinning the equation and how it helped him sustain his life after Ali's death.