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[00:00:00] someone has fallen in a nursing home or help rescuers
[00:00:03] find people faster during disasters, and
[00:00:06] parts of it already work, at least in the lab.
[00:00:10] researchers in Italy have shown that wi-fi signals can sense people
[00:00:14] and follow their movement. so how
[00:00:16] does it work? wi-fi uses electromagnetic
[00:00:20] waves, and it's everywhere these days. it passes through walls
[00:00:24] and people. our bodies reflect and absorb this signal,
[00:00:27] suddenly altering it. Measuring these
[00:00:30] changes lets researchers detect movement, positions and
[00:00:34] motion patterns that one day might become distinctive enough to
[00:00:37] tell people apart, somewhat like
[00:00:39] fingerprint.
[00:00:43] At the Frauenhofa Institute for Integrated Circuits in
[00:00:46] Nurnberg, scientists are studying how radio waves can be
[00:00:50] used to determine what's inside an
[00:00:52] object.
[00:00:56] Not with our eyes, of course, with electromagnetic radiation.
[00:01:01] To demonstrate the principle, they run an experiment: two sealed
[00:01:05] packages, each filled with different screws. Using radio
[00:01:08] waves, they check what's inside them. The system
[00:01:11] analyzes how radio frequency electromagnetic signals are
[00:01:15] altered as they interact with the objects, using principles
[00:01:18] similar to wi-fi. And it works: the screws
[00:01:22] can be identified on the screen.
[00:01:26] So if you're packaging screws for a client with an automated system.
[00:01:38] Radio waves are already part of everyday life,
[00:01:42] we use them to listen to the radio, make a cell phone
[00:01:45] call or stream
[00:01:47] music.
[00:01:50] GPS helps us navigate,
[00:01:53] democracy stands in the way of medical imaging like MRI relies on magnetic fields and
[00:01:57] radio waves. Wi-Fi uses only. radio
[00:02:00] waves, what it can do is still more limited, but still
[00:02:03] remarkable. unlike surveillance cameras, it doesn't matter
[00:02:07] if it's dark or if someone changes how they look.
[00:02:11] instead, the system reads how the body affects the
[00:02:13] signal, but identifying who someone is is
[00:02:17] much harder. the researchers carry out another
[00:02:20] test: the subject carries a receiver.
[00:02:24] using radio waves, they pinpoint her position. it's
[00:02:28] much more precise than conventional. carrying
[00:03:08] device, tracking becomes more
[00:03:10] complex.
[00:03:13] the system has to rely on how signals travel between
[00:03:17] transmitters.
[00:03:20] as she moves through the room, she scatters and absorbs radio
[00:03:23] waves. walls and floors reflect the signals as
[00:03:27] well.
[00:03:31] and so do
[00:03:31] objects
[00:03:35] with multiple people, the problem becomes even harder. It's
[00:03:39] a bit like ripples and water. One disturbance
[00:03:42] is easy to track, many overlapping waves are difficult to
[00:03:46] separate.
[00:03:49] In practice, the signal travels much like light. It
[00:03:53] doesn't just move along the direct path between a transmitter and a
[00:03:56] receiver. It's also reflected by objects.
[00:05:01] They had collected data on about 13 or 14
[00:05:03] people, using that same data, they were able to
[00:05:07] reidentify those people, but only in lab
[00:05:10] conditions, and only with one person in the...
[00:05:13] environments, one person was in the room, no more
[00:05:15] people.
[00:05:20] How someone moves or how their body alters the
[00:05:23] signal. Outside the lab, it still isn't
[00:05:26] reliable, but the technology is
[00:05:29] improving, and unlike cameras, it's invisible, works
[00:05:32] without light and can see through walls. Avoiding it is almost
[00:05:36] impossible.
[00:05:40] You don't have to be afraid today.
[00:06:12] consequences of a technology like this: who controls it and who
[00:06:16] sets the limits? in 2024, the European
[00:06:19] Union passed the world's first law to regulate
[00:06:22] AI, but tech billionaires like Elon Musk
[00:06:26] and Peter Teel and companies like Apple and
[00:06:29] Meta reject limits on AI, while promoting
[00:06:33] vision of the future that goes beyond science fiction into the
[00:06:36] realm of science
[00:06:37] fantasy.
[00:06:41] this man wan to go to Mars, Elon
[00:06:44] Musk, the richest man in the world. While
[00:06:47] NASA is aiming for a crude Mars mission around
[00:06:51] 2040, Musk has set his sights on
[00:06:54] 2031. He wants to launch the Starship
[00:06:57] rocket developed by his company SpaceX towards
[00:07:01] Mars in late 2026,
[00:07:04] and by 2050 he says 1 million people could be
[00:07:08] living there.
[00:07:11] So what is Musk? visionary or just a
[00:07:14] megalomaniac with too much money. we pay a
[00:07:18] visit to daniela, a mars expert at the DLR
[00:07:22] Institute of planetary research in Germany. what does science
[00:07:26] make of these dreams of Mars? science
[00:07:28] fiction.
[00:07:32] million people living on Mars is very
[00:07:34] unlikely. because um isn't suited for
[00:07:38] long-term human colonization. it just
[00:07:40] doesn't provide the conditions. for humans to be able to stay healthy and
[00:07:44] survive there,
[00:07:48] mars has far too little gravity, no
[00:07:51] dense atmosphere and no protective magnetic
[00:07:55] field. it's not a plan b, a planet b for
[00:07:58] humanity.
[00:08:02] if we have the technology to colonize Mars, then we have the technology
[00:08:06] to save earth. our know how should go into saving our own
[00:08:09] planet, the best one in the solar system. Germany's
[00:08:33] first professor of AI ethics has studied their
[00:08:36] ideas.
[00:09:42] that collect data and can explain and predict the
[00:09:46] behavior of each
[00:09:47] person.
[00:09:50] According to biographys, Elon Musk and Peter Teel were both
[00:09:54] fascinated by fantasy and science fiction comics as boys
[00:09:57] and that fascination still seems to shape their
[00:10:01] thinking today. Peter Teal founded Palentier
[00:10:05] Technologies, named after the all-seeing stones in
[00:10:08] Tolkins Lord of the Rings. The company
[00:10:11] builds military and intelligence software, powerful tools
[00:10:15] and dangerous ones in the wrong hands, as the wizard
[00:10:18] gandolf warned. Gotham, the Palentier analytics
[00:10:22] software, is named after the unruly. city in the Batman
[00:10:26] Universe
[00:10:28] and Anderal Industries which builds AI controlled weapons
[00:10:32] and is closely linked to Palandier takes its name from
[00:10:36] powerful sword in the Lord of the Rings. These tech
[00:10:40] billionaires sound like characters straight out of science
[00:10:43] fiction and they have a plan. Critics call it
[00:10:46] Tesgril.
[00:10:53] Tesgril is an acronym that bundle several tech world
[00:10:56] ideologies: one is transhumanism,
[00:11:00] merging the human brain with computers, promising eternal
[00:11:03] life in machines. Singularity is the moment a
[00:11:07] super intelligent AI is born. Eugenics, the
[00:11:11] idea that only the highly intelligent should reproduce,
[00:11:14] essentially an elite dictatorship. Looming over
[00:11:17] all this is long-termism. Climate change, environmental damage and
[00:11:21] poverty are sidelined in favor of spreading humanity across the galaxy.
[00:12:03] claimed that regulating AI would speed up the
[00:12:06] arrival of the antichrist. he's even said he knows who that
[00:12:09] is, in his view, greta
[00:12:11] tumberg.
[00:12:14] he also argues that the
[00:12:18] future.
[00:12:21] he says, "i no longer believe that freedom and democracy"
[00:12:40] AI speeds up climate change through massive resource use or leads to discrimination and social inequality, those are minor issues, at least when compared to the countless human
[00:12:44] lives that could exist in the ultra distant
[00:12:47] future. would enable in the ultra-distant future.
[00:12:51] earth faces climate change.
[00:12:55] an environmental collapse, Elon Musk's plan to colonize
[00:12:58] Mars is framed as the first step towards a cosmic
[00:13:02] future. The key idea is terraforming, using
[00:13:05] technology to reshape Mars, making it more like
[00:13:08] earth with a breathable
[00:13:10] atmosphere.
[00:13:13] The idea sounds tempting, but it's not really thought through. For
[00:13:17] this to work, a planet needs two key things: first, enough
[00:13:20] gravity to hold to an atmosphere, and
[00:13:23] second, a magnetic... field to protect that atmosphere from being
[00:13:27] stripped away by the sun,
[00:13:31] so is all this just fantasy? critics
[00:13:33] like kaina, use the term tech fascism to describe
[00:13:37] these grand future visions promoted by tech
[00:13:40] billionaires. supporters of this thinking refer to something they
[00:13:43] call the dark
[00:13:45] enlightenment.
[00:13:48] transhumanists and technofascist thinkers
[00:13:51] argue that hierarchies between genders or... they
[00:13:55] say that hierarchies between genders or
[00:13:58] between ethnic groups
[00:14:00] presumably,
[00:14:05] power relations not as a social problem, where one could, for example, politically
[00:14:09] oppose it, they embrace these
[00:14:11] hierarchies, using them to justify
[00:14:14] excluding, marginalizing, and discriminating against certain
[00:14:18] people.
[00:14:25] Elon Musk planning to take to Mars a hand-picked elete
[00:14:28] people like himself and other tech oligarchs to carry on
[00:14:32] once they've made earth
[00:14:33] unlivable?
[00:14:36] What kind of elite would that even be? They're describing
[00:14:39] survival, not a good life. Mars is a
[00:14:42] frozen desert, extremely cold and dry. People
[00:14:45] would have to live inside domes, there would be no blue sky, no
[00:14:49] plants, at least not
[00:14:50] outdoors.
[00:14:55] often seen as visionaries, but many people don't fully
[00:14:58] understand what those visions are, and who would
[00:15:02] benefit?
[00:15:06] ai chat bots like chat gpt don't just make
[00:15:09] mistakes, they sometimes invent things or
[00:15:13] hallucinate. they don't actually know everything, but sound as
[00:15:16] if they do, filling in the gaps with answers that seem
[00:15:20] convincing, even when they're wrong. a recent
[00:15:23] study found that nearly... half of their responses contained
[00:15:27] problems or mistakes, it's like auto complete on
[00:15:31] steroids, but the consequences can be very
[00:15:34] real. It all started when my...
[00:17:07] case it may have learned that whenever this reporter's name came up, a
[00:17:11] crime was mentioned next, so it
[00:17:14] built sentences that sound plausible, but have nothing to do with
[00:17:17] reality,
[00:17:21] and bound clow's not alone, a recent study
[00:17:24] looked at 3,000 responses from four AI
[00:17:27] assistants about news events,
[00:17:30] 45% contained at least one significant
[00:17:33] problem, in 31% sources were
[00:17:36] missing,
[00:19:07] "we tend to think of data protection as fixed data set and a person
[00:19:11] appears in it. That's
[00:19:14] the problem, that model is outdated. With
[00:19:17] AI, everything is mixed together and the links are much looser. That
[00:19:21] doesn't reflect reality anymore. We need to rethink
[00:19:24] the law so it properly covers how AI actually
[00:19:27] works.
[00:19:31] In other words, the law hasn't cut up with how AI works and what can
[00:19:35] go wrong."
[00:19:38] Microsoft says it's taken action,
[00:19:41] boundcloud's name is now blocked on co-pilot so he no longer appears at
[00:19:45] all.
[00:19:47] In a statement, the company says it's working to improve responses
[00:19:51] and urges users to verify
[00:19:53] sources.
[00:19:56] We also explicitly inform users that they are interacting with an
[00:19:59] AI system. In addition, we recommend checking the links
[00:20:03] to source
[00:20:03] materials.
[00:20:08] According to bal, Microsoft offered him
[00:20:12] in compensation and to cover his legal
[00:20:15] costs.
[00:20:24] Which could help create the legal and political framework to
[00:20:27] regulate AI and define
[00:20:29] responsibility.
[00:20:37] then his legal fight
[00:20:39] continues,
[00:20:42] so is this AI or is it real? it's getting
[00:20:46] harder to tell and that matters more than ever when..."
[00:20:50] manipulation and fake news erode trust, democracy is
[00:20:53] put at risk. Social media is also where many young
[00:20:57] people shape their views, learn to get along and find their
[00:21:01] communities. That's why a pilot project in Germany is
[00:21:05] helping students build the skills they'll need in
[00:21:08] today's digital
[00:21:10] democracy.
[00:21:15] Today, these seventh graders are turning their classroom into a film
[00:21:19] set. the topic is values and community,
[00:21:23] they're acting, directing and filming, doing it all
[00:21:25] themselves, and this is the result.
[00:21:41] They can make or break a
[00:21:42] conversation.
[00:22:50] We need right now, people who want to get involved, who are curious
[00:22:53] and have the confidence to dive
[00:22:55] in.
[00:22:58] More education on democracy is urgently needed in
[00:23:00] schools. Only about two-thirds of adults in Germany
[00:23:04] believe young people will be ready to stand up for
[00:23:07] democracy. Young people themselves are even more
[00:23:10] skeptical, just 54% believe their
[00:23:13] generation will stand up for democracy as
[00:23:15] adults.
[00:23:18] Communication coach Maya's.
[00:23:50] In our workshops, Summa raises awareness of these
[00:23:53] challenges. Her message, policymakers need
[00:23:56] to do much more to bring these topics into
[00:23:59] schools.
[00:24:01] In this community, they've taken a first step. The students had
[00:24:05] fun, learned a lot and took a lot of pride in their