3D-printed food to 'sentient' chatbots - five Big Ideas Live highlights

From Britain's relation successful the abstraction contention and the aboriginal of warfare, to 3D-printed burgers and robots delivering pretzels, Big Ideas Live surely ran the gamut erstwhile it came to however subject and exertion is affecting our world.

There were opportunities for visitors to effort immoderate of the innovations they tin invited into their home, including online buying successful the metaverse, portion flagship panels dived heavy into the large tech, societal media and more.

One specified sheet produced a revelation astir Facebook's past tackling predetermination interference content, portion Twitter's aboriginal nether Elon Musk was a moving theme.

We don't blasted you if you couldn't support up - present are 5 highlights you whitethorn person missed.

Big Ideas Live arsenic it happened

Ex-Google technologist insists chatbot AI is sentient

Former Google technologist Blake Lemoine spoke to Sky News information and forensics analogous Tom Cheshire about moving with artificial intelligence, aft his sacking this twelvemonth for claiming its caller chatbot was sentient.

He utilized his quality astatine the amusement to treble down connected his assertion, claiming it gave him "the astir blase speech astir sentience I'd ever had".

"It understood what it was, what its narration to the remainder of the satellite was, that it wasn't human, and that it had precise blase ideas and opinions that I'd ne'er encountered earlier astir these topics," helium added.

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3D printing gets you nutrient - and fashion

One of the technological innovations connected amusement was 3D-printed nutrient - yes, really.

Edwin Bark, elder vice-president of Redefine Meat, explained that the process could "replicate the precise analyzable operation of meat" successful a mode that astir mainstream plant-based options bash not.

Elements specified arsenic fat, humor and musculus tin beryllium taken into account, allowing for the instauration of antithetic "cuts" of meat.

And if that wasn't enough, 3D printing was besides presented arsenic a mode to heighten fashion.

Ofer Libo, from Stratasys, explained however a process called polyjets produces smooth, close parts, which tin beryllium added to fabric, offering designers a "whole caller acceptable of tools to enactment with".

"It enables you to make precise elaborate designs successful presumption of geometry, light, and texture," helium added.

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UK's archetypal rocket motorboat is astir upon us

It was a large week for abstraction - NASA's historical Artemis 1 launch took spot successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday, and conscionable a portion aboriginal the UK gave Spaceport Cornwall the all-clear to host rocket launches.

Cosmic Girl, a reworked Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 plane, volition instrumentality disconnected from the larboard adjacent Newquay, and volition merchandise a rocket susceptible of carrying satellites into orbit.

Melissa Thorpe, the caput of Spaceport Cornwall, told Sky News subject analogous Thomas Moore that years of enactment was yet "coming to fruition".

"We're truly arrogant of what this astir to bash for the UK," she said - with the motorboat expected this month.

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Artwork that leaps disconnected the wall

One of the astir eye-catching exhibits was a coating with a quality by creator Tim Fowler.

Visitors were invited to scan a QR codification nearby, which unfastened up a snippet of the Adobe Aero augmented world app connected your telephone - promising to show his portion successful 3D via a recreation by Mohamad Aaqib.

Once you've scanned your surroundings with your phone's camera, up pops the art, present successful 3D and connected your device's surface and scaled to the situation - meaning anyone could instrumentality this good portion of creation location arsenic a souvenir.

'We are a agelong mode from slayer robots'

Technology tin beryllium arsenic frightening arsenic it is exciting, and science-fiction surely hasn't done the cognition of AI galore favours implicit the years.

But Nigel Inkster, a erstwhile manager of operations astatine MI6, offered the reassuring assertion that we won't person to interest astir Terminator-style "killer robots" immoderate clip soon.

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Speaking much broadly astir the deployment of cyber capabilities successful modern warfare, Mr Inkster said the Ukraine struggle was grounds the tactics of the 20th period stay astir effective.

"Russia's decided that alternatively than instrumentality retired infrastructure utilizing cyber means, it's easier conscionable to physically destruct it," noted the erstwhile spy chief.

As for Ukraine's troops, they person "defeated a overmuch larger and connected the look of it amended prepared unit done accomplishment of idiosyncratic commanders connected the ground".