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Can We Build a Brain? Preview

How does today’s artificial intelligence actually work—and is it truly intelligent?

Aired 04/04/2018

NOVA

Can We Build a Brain? Preview

Preview: Season 45 Episode 104 | 28sVideo has Closed Captions

How does today’s artificial intelligence actually work—and is it truly intelligent?

Artificially intelligent machines are taking over. They’re influencing our everyday lives in profound and often invisible ways. They can read handwriting, interpret emotions, play games, and even act as personal assistants. They are in our phones, our cars, our doctors’ offices, our banks, our web searches…the list goes on and is rapidly growing ever longer.

Aired 04/04/2018

National corporate funding for NOVA Wonders is provided by Draper. Major funding for NOVA Wonders is provided by National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Alfred P....

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