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The Artificial Intelligence Issue

November/December 2017

Advances in artificial intelligence are about to force all of us to confront questions about privacy, inequality, employment—and what it really means to be human.

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Categorized in Artificial intelligence
Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?
Just about every AI advance you’ve heard of depends on a breakthrough that’s three decades old. Keeping up the pace of progress will require confronting AI’s serious limitations.
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India Warily Eyes AI
Technology outsourcing has been India’s only reliable job creator in the past 30 years. Now artificial intelligence threatens to wipe out those gains.
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Can AI Keep You Healthy?
A Chinese entrepreneur wants to track your health data and suggest ways to improve. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that information?
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China’s AI Awakening中国人工智能的崛起
The West shouldn’t fear China’s artificial-intelligence revolution. It should copy it.
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Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain
AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually happens in neurons and nerve fibers.

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- Put Humans at the Center of AI
  At Stanford and Google, Fei-Fei Li is leading the development of artificial intelligence—and working to diversify the field.
  Categorized in Artificial intelligence
- We Need Computers with Empathy
  An emerging trend in artificial intelligence is to get computers to detect how we’re feeling and respond accordingly. They might even help us develop more compassion for one another.
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- How We Feel About Robots That Feel
  As robots become smart enough to detect our feelings and respond appropriately, they could have something like emotions of their own. But that won’t necessarily make them more like humans.
  Categorized in 17032
- The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions
  Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.
  
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- Fearsome Machines: A Prehistory
  A time line of what happened when in the history of artificial intelligence.
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- The Dangers of Tech-Bro AI
  Tabitha Goldstaub, a cofounder of CognitionX, which helps companies deploy AI, says that diversifying the field is necessary to make sure products actually work well.
  Categorized in 17032
- How to Root Out Hidden Biases in AI
  Algorithms are making life-changing decisions like denying parole or granting loans. Cynthia Dwork, a computer scientist at Harvard, is developing ways of making sure the machines are operating fairly.
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- Fiction That Gets AI Right
  What to watch and read before the robots take over.
  Categorized in Artificial intelligence
- Don’t Let Regulators Ruin AI
  Tech policy scholar Andrea O’Sullivan says the U.S. needs to be careful not to hamstring innovation.
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Magazine

The Artificial Intelligence Issue

Letter from the editor

Features

Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?

India Warily Eyes AI

Can AI Keep You Healthy?

China’s AI Awakening中国人工智能的崛起

Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain

Put Humans at the Center of AI

We Need Computers with Empathy

How We Feel About Robots That Feel

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions

Fearsome Machines: A Prehistory

The Dangers of Tech-Bro AI

How to Root Out Hidden Biases in AI

Fiction That Gets AI Right

Don’t Let Regulators Ruin AI

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