From Britain’s role in the space race and the future of warfare, to 3D-printed burgers and robots delivering pretzels, Big Ideas Live certainly ran the gamut when it came to how science and technology is affecting our world.
There were opportunities for visitors to try some of the innovations they can welcome into their home, including online shopping in the metaverse, while flagship panels dived deep into the big tech, social media and more.
One such panel produced a revelation about Facebook’s history tackling election interference content, while Twitter’s future under Elon Musk was a running theme.
We don’t blame you if you couldn’t keep up – here are five highlights you may have missed.
Big Ideas Live as it happened
Ex-Google engineer insists chatbot AI is sentient
Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine spoke to Sky News data and forensics correspondent Tom Cheshire about working with artificial intelligence, after his sacking this year for claiming its new chatbot was sentient.
He used his appearance at the show to double down on his assertion, claiming it gave him “the most sophisticated conversation about sentience I’d ever had”.
“It understood what it was, what its relationship to the rest of the world was, that it wasn’t human, and that it had very sophisticated ideas and opinions that I’d never encountered before about these topics,” he added.
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We put Google’s new chatbot to the test
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Can machines have feelings?
3D printing gets you food – and fashion
One of the technological innovations on show was 3D-printed meat – yes,…
