TheBBCis not shying away fromartificial intelligenceor the U.S. tech giants, according to its Director General.
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Our ambition is significant, he added.
Keen AI observers will note that Davie needs to tread carefully.
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and Chinese algorithms could be the potential taste-makers of the future in pre-trailed parts of the speech.
We are small but we can grow enormously.
Our revenue could be much bigger.
Reformed license fee
Davie was realistic that the BBC requires much more than commercial revenue to survive.
To strip money from the BBC during this period has been particularly short-sighted.
I would be careful about ascribing all our financial problems to politicians, he said.
We also have to check that we justify the license fee to every household through usage.
