Ai-Da, the face of Artificial Intelligence in the UK, takes part in the 2023 Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES alongside Mike Wooldridge, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Oxford University, and Director of Foundational AI Research at the Alan Turing Institute. Watch on BBC4 on Boxing Day, 8pm – available on iPlayer.

For the 2023 Christmas Lectures, Mike Wooldridge will tackle the most important and rapidly evolving field of science today – Artificial Intelligence, in a lecture titled “THE TRUTH ABOUT AI.”

The 2023 Christmas Lectures feature Ai-Da Robot painting and conversing with Mike Wooldridge as he carries out a series of science experiments that will explore how this ground-breaking technology really works. Ai-Da opens the first lecture by painting Prof. Mike’s portrait. 

First broadcast in 1936, the Christmas Lectures is the oldest science television series, and are famous for bringing science to young people. First established in 1825 by Michael Faraday, the lecture format brought an exciting new way of presenting scientific developments. World-famous scientists have given the Lectures, including Nobel Prize winners William and Lawrence Bragg, Sir David Attenborough, Carl Sagan and Dame Nancy Rothwell. Ai-Da is the first ultra-realistic robot to take part in the lectures, as she brings science and AI to the next generation.