Today, in our final instalment, we look at the spread of artificial intelligenceLooking over the year that has passed, it is a nice question whether human stupidity or artificial intelligence has done more to shape events. Artificial intelligence is a term whose meaning constantly recedes. Artificial intelligence in this sense is what enables self-driving cars, which have to be able to recognise and act appropriately towards their environment. Changing the gameThe Chinese government’s use of machine learning for political repression has gone much further than surveillance cameras. And there is a rather unnerving sense in which this kind of artificial intelligence seems already alive.

Source: The Guardian January 01, 2019 11:30 UTC