How AI thinks

Artificial intelligence is revolutionising sectors from education to healthcare to the creative arts. But how does AI understand sentiment or context? How does it play and win games that have an almost infinite number of moves? And how can we work with AI to produce insights and innovations that are beyond human capacity, from writing code in an instant to unfolding the elaborate 3D puzzles of proteins? Nigel Toon shows how we train AI to train itself, so that it can paint images that have never existed before or converse in any language.