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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Professor Mike Wooldridge is joined by leading experts to grapple with the future of AI. What opportunities and dangers lie ahead as AI continues to evolve?
Professor Mike Wooldridge reveals the huge role AI already plays in our daily lives, sometimes without us even realising what it is doing.
Professor Mike Wooldridge explores the nature of artificial intelligence. By using experiments and demonstrations, he investigates how AI learns and what it can do.
September 2023
A 'heist' has been staged in the Royal Institution. Can forensic evidence identify and convict the individual responsible? Includes insights from real criminal investigations.
Professor Sue Black investigates a Christmas murder mystery with leading police experts, forensic scientists and an award-winning dog. Including insights into real serious crime investigations.
Professor Sue Black is joined by Emilia Fox and forensic scientists to unlock the mysterious death of a skeleton. With insights from investigations into serious crimes and war zones.
December 2021
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam is joined by leading experts to unlock the science of vaccines, variants and viral genetic codes.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam is joined by leading experts to reveal the secrets of contagion and the mathematics of disease.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam is joined by leading experts to explore viruses, the immune system and modern testing technology.
Dr Tara Shine takes a deep breath and explores the gases that make up the air we breath. One of them might provide the answer for heating and transport in the future.
Dr Helen Czerski explains why the ocean is so vital to life on earth and what we need to know to be good citizens of our ocean planet.
Professor Chris Jackson reveals how, for billions of years, volcanic activity drove climate change on planet Earth. Now, it is humans.
Dr Hannah Fry tests the limits of our control, from gravity-defying stunts to human-sized drones, and delves into the world of fake news to separate the truth from the lies.
Dr Hannah Fry reveals how data-gobbling algorithms have taken over our lives and now control almost everything we do, without us even realising.
Dr Hannah Fry, through a host of live experiments, uncovers the secrets of luck to discover what really controls our destiny, from dodging erupting volcanoes to pulling Christmas crackers.
This is BBC Four of the TV-show Royal Institution Christmas Lectures was broadcast by BBC4 on Friday 28 December 2018 at 20:00.
This is BBC Four of the TV-show Royal Institution Christmas Lectures was broadcast by BBC4 on Thursday 27 December 2018 at 20:00.
This is BBC Four of the TV-show Royal Institution Christmas Lectures was broadcast by BBC4 on Wednesday 26 December 2018 at 20:00.
December 28, 2017 of the TV-show Royal Institution Christmas Lectures was broadcast by BBC4 on Thursday 28 December 2017 at 20:00.
December 27, 2017 of the TV-show Royal Institution Christmas Lectures was broadcast by BBC4 on Wednesday 27 December 2017 at 20:00.