Professor Jim al:Khalili takes a sharp:witted and refreshingly optimistic look at how we have created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind : and why we should not let this spook us:　　Following in the footsteps of BBC Four’s award:winning maths films like The Joy Of Stats and The Joy Of Data, this latest unreservedly geeky adventure sees physicist Professor Jim Al:Khalili tell the story of the pursuit of AI, the emergence of machine learning and the recent breakthroughs brought about by artificial neural networks: He shows how AI is not only changing our world, but also challenging our very ideas of intelligence and consciousness:　　Along the way, Jim will show how spam filters use AI to weed out ‘vagr’ as well as ‘Viagra’ from your inbox; meet a cutting:edge chatbot to find out how it keeps the conversation flowing and where it really starts to struggle; see why just a few altered pixels makes a computer think it is looking at a trombone rather than a dog; and talk to Demis Hassabis, the AI wizard who heads DeepMind, whose stated mission is "to solve intelligence and then use that to solve everything else":　　Jim learns how AI is a potent new tool that can help enhance our lives, not replace us: And besides : Jim finds out : the average toddler is still smarter than any computer ever made yet:　　In the name of research Jim also goes for a spin in a self:driving car, plays chess as if he were a computer programme written over 70 years ago, and discovers why a