Professor Jim al-Khalili takes a sharp-witted and optimistic look at machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind - and why we should not let this spook us. He tells the story of the pursuit of AI, the emergence of machine learning, and the recent breakthroughs brought about by artificial neural networks. See how spam filters use AI to weed out v!agr@ as well as Viagra from your inbox; meet a cutting-edge chatbot; see why 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.

Originally released by DCD Rights Limited, 2018. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on January 24, 2019.

The Joy of AI: Introduction (2:15); --What is Thinking? (5:25); -- Turochamp (3:53); -- Classical AI (2:23); -- Machine Learning (3:39); -- Conscious vs. Unconscious Mind (4:21); -- Artificial Neural Networks (3:20); -- AI Revolution (5:46); -- DeepMind (4:23); -- AlphaGo (3:56); -- Intelligence Explosion (3:54); -- AI Intelligence (4:18); -- Conversational AI (6:15); -- One-Shot Learning (4:37); -- Credits: The Joy of AI (0:50); .