If you think this election is insane, wait until 2020. I want you to imagine how, in four years' time, technologies like AI, machine learning, sensors and networks will accelerate. Political campaigns are about to get hyper-personalized thanks to advances in a few exponential technologies. Imagine a candidate who now knows everything about you, who can reach you wherever you happen to be looking, and who can use info scraped from social media (and intuited by machine learning algorithms) to speak directly to you and your interests. Here's what future election campaign marketing might feel like… In 2016, 78% of Americans have a social media profile.

Just a decade ago, few would have guessed that virtual goods could create a real market. Then the smartphone age sparked a whole new universe of ephemeral, yet lucrative, commerce. "People have gotten much more comfortable with the idea of paying for things that are virtual," says Joost van Dreunen, the co-founder and CEO of SuperData, a gaming research firm. For startups in this fast-growing market, the goods may be fake, but the sales are real. Some of the most promising new areas of business are hidden behind what can sound like Millennial smartphone-speak: Kimoji!

COM ETHICS:ETHICS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR THE 2. AI's next frontier requires ethics built through policy. COM 3. Will we live into a future where machines are as intelligent -- or frighteningly, more so -- than humans? COM 4. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS AT THE HEART OF THAT INNOVATION. COM What President Trump will have to add to this conversation is, as of now, another great mystery. 5. ORIGINALLY FEATURED ON TECHCRUNCH. COM In a report released by the White House on the current and future state of AI, leading innovators considered not only the technology that will drive AI, but also the ethical considerations that must fuel its growth.

Students code software at desktops, while others assemble odd machines with wires and multi-colored boxes. Earning a spot at this elite university isn't easy; UC-Berkeley accepted a mere 14.8 percent of applicants for the class of 2020. So this young crew will likely be tomorrow's tech leaders and pioneers. Despite all the promise, it appears that BRETT is struggling. BRETT is a robot, and he – or she, or it – is attempting to place a small wooden block into a small hole. Again and again, BRETT swings his arm over the opening, attempts to place the block, but fumbles. Just can't make it fit. However, as robots go, BRETT has a huge advantage: he can learn. Every time BRETT swings his arm and fails, he calculates what went wrong. In essence he's doing what we humans do: he's failing, and in response he's deciding how to improve the next effort. I stand watching for about 15 minutes, and finally BRETT succeeds – a lengthy period given the simple task. But the astounding point is that the robot really did learn.

A robotic strawberry picker built by AgroBot, a Spanish company. It's being tested in California as hiring laborers becomes increasingly difficult. But for one small corner, agricultural technology, it represents an opportunity. Farmers have been facing an increasingly tight labor market for years. The immigrant workforce that has long picked and packed the nation's fruits and vegetables move to better jobs as soon as they can, replaced by new immigrants.

Fail fast, fail often

With the U.S. election finally in the rear-view mirror, the marketing community can get back to normal, or at least to debating what is normal now. After a period of rapid technological changes--connecting cars, homes, and humans--insiders agree 2017 will be a year of adapting to many of the recent trends. "We are between two worlds of legacy thinking and the new reality. Those two worlds don't mesh," said David Cohen, president of Magna North America. Part of that middle ground we predicted here--such as the mainstreaming of virtual reality and debates about transparency, fraud, and ad blocking--have come true even faster than expected. Others, such as "social shopping" and marketers having to pay consumers for their data, have met resistance.

You don't have to be a gambler to appreciate the complexities of the card game Texas Hold'Em. It involves a strategy that needs to evolve based on the players around the table, it takes a certain amount of intuition, and it doesn't require the player to win every hand. Just a few days ago, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm named Libratus beat four professional poker players at a no-limit Texas Hold'Em tournament played out over 20 days. If you have even the slightest understanding of how to write code, you would realize that it is impossible to actually code a software program to do that with such "imperfect information". The AI algorithm did exceptionally well and was utilizing strategies that humans had never used before.

Do you remember the over-the-top political ad that featured a man representing Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) throwing an elderly woman off a cliff? Well that spot, which took a not so subtle swipe at Ryan's Medicare plan, may have met its match. A newly released ad, also targeted at seniors, aims to portray autonomous cars as four-wheeled killing machines. The ad, which was created by the PAC (political action committee) the Committee to Protect Florida, criticizes Florida State Senate candidate Jeff Brandes (R) because he sponsored legislation to allow driverless cars in Florida. In order to drive the point home, the commercial features a voice over by an elderly woman who seems frightened of autonomous technology.

Using analogical model formulation with sketches to solve Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test problems.