Tech News Today 1673

Alex Kantrowitz from Buzzfeed, Selena Larson from CNN, and Dave Gershgorn from Quartz join Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to talk about the biggest Artificial Intelligence stories from throughout the year.

Artificial Intelligence had a major coming out party throughout 2016. It became a household name in many ways, and moved from this thing we saw coming, to something that seems to be consuming all aspects of technology.

The White House said that AI would spur economic growth, but at the cost of millions of jobs, and those changes could be right around the corner.

In some ways, institutional bias can be introduced into the production of AI systems, influencing the products we use that rely on those systems.

AI is beginning to make its way into the medical field, with Baidu launching a chatbot called Melody that helps doctors treat their patients through text conversations.

The next generation of computer hacking could involve tricking AI into thinking it is seeing something that it's not.

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Links

• How AI is becoming essential for social media
• Facebook Tests “M Suggestions,” Laying Groundwork For More AI In Messenger
• White House Says That AI Will Grow The Economy - But Lots Of Jobs Will Be Lost On The Way
• Racist Twitter Bot Went Awry Due To “Coordinated Effort” By Users, Says Microsoft
• Research shows gender bias in Google's voice recognition
• Artificial intelligence is changing every business.
• Microsoft unveils a new (and hopefully not racist) chat bot
• The futures of many prison inmates depend on racially biased algorithms
• Machine Bias
• Baidu is bringing AI chatbots to healthcare
• We don’t understand how AI make most decisions, so now algorithms are explaining themselves
• The US government has been funding AI for 50 years, and just came up with a plan for its future
• Google Considers Making A "Big Red Button" To Stop Dangerous A.I. In An Emergency
• Elon Musk’s OpenAI has a new tool that could keep hackers from wrecking a self-driving car
• AI can learn from data without ever having access to it
• Fooling The Machine
• All it takes to steal your face is a special pair of glasses
• Not even brightest minds in artificial intelligence can tell you how it’s going to change our lives