If you get your news from social media, as most Americans do, you are exposed to a daily dose of hoaxes, rumors, conspiracy theories and misleading news. When it's all mixed in with reliable information from honest sources, the truth can be very hard to discern. In fact, my research team's analysis of data from Columbia University's Emergent rumor tracker suggests that this misinformation is just as likely to go viral as reliable information. Many are asking whether this onslaught of digital misinformation affected the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election. The truth is we do not know, although there are reasons to believe it is entirely possible, based on past analysis and accounts from other countries.

Autonomy is coming to warfare, and some would say it's already here. Weapon systems driven by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms will soon be making potentially deadly decisions on the battlefield. This transition is not theoretical. The immense capability of large numbers of autonomous systems represents a revolution in warfare that no country can ignore. As we march towards this reality, it is important that technology leaders and military strategists begin a discussion around the moral and legal framework within which such autonomous capabilities will be enabled.

Autonomy is coming to warfare, and some would say it's already here. Weapon systems driven by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms will soon be making potentially deadly decisions on the battlefield. This transition is not theoretical. The immense capability of large numbers of autonomous systems represents a revolution in warfare that no country can ignore. As we march towards this reality, it is important that technology leaders and military strategists begin a discussion around the moral and legal framework within which such autonomous capabilities will be enabled.

As thousands of protesters took to Los Angeles streets on the Saturday after election day, Zaina Siyed was 50 miles east in Rialto, staging her own act of resistance in a middle school gym. On a bleacher next to a row of girls in purple hijabs sat the 16-year-old from Chino Hills, a nervous coach waiting to hear the results of a robotics competition. FemSTEM, the team she had created, was made up of eight competition rookies, ages 10 to 14. She had recruited them and raised the money in an online campaign to cover all they would need to compete -- team shirts, registration fees, equipment. Getting others to love what she loved was one objective. "How does a Muslim girl who is passionate about tech encourage her sisters in the Muslim community to embrace the wonderful world of STEM?" she wrote in her pitch for donations, referring to the study of science, technology, engineering and math.

In the military world, fighter pilots have long been described as the best of the best. As Tom Wolfe famously wrote, only those with the "right stuff" can handle the job. Now, it seems, the right stuff may no longer be the sole purview of human pilots. A pilot A.I. developed by a doctoral graduate from the University of Cincinnati has shown that it can not only beat other A.I.s, but also a professional fighter pilot with decades of experience. In a series of flight combat simulations, the A.I. successfully evaded retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Gene "Geno" Lee, and shot him down every time.

A survey in 2013 by Vincent C. Müller and Nick Bostrom asked hundreds of scientists when they believe machines will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), meaning human-level intelligence. The median years for 10, 50, and 90 percent probability of reaching AGI were 2022, 2040, and 2075, respectively. But, there are still many challenges to reaching human-level intelligence. The first is domain limitation. Today's artificial intelligence primarily applies a mathematical approach that can solve a finite set of statements for a finite set of terms described under a finite set of rules.

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Google says its artificial intelligence has taught itself to'translate between languages that it doesn't even know' 'Zero-shot translation' can translate between languages it doesn't know Deep-learning researchers developed Google Neural Machine Translation GNMT developed algorithm that'self-teaches' it to translate languages'Zero-shot translation' can translate between languages it doesn't know GNMT developed algorithm that'self-teaches' it to translate languages Google headquarters in Menlo Park, California is seen in the above stock photo. Google says it has built an algorithm that allows its Google Translate service to translate languages it doesn't even know Google says that its artificial intelligence uses a'token' at the beginning of the input sentence to specify the required target language to translate to Skating on thin ice: Wife of Vladimir Putin's spokesman... 'This had nothing to do with Donald': Rosie O'Donnell... Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. says he... New Orleans violence'out of control' says mayor after one... Skating on thin ice: Wife of Vladimir Putin's spokesman... 'This had nothing to do with Donald': Rosie O'Donnell... Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. says he... New Orleans violence'out of control' says mayor after one... Barron Trump clapping during his father's appearance at RNC Penny for your thoughts: Cute baby laughs at hearing dad say 4p Mob storm police station and lynch suspected paedophile Homeless man has zebra-skin slipcovers & porcelain toilet Moment pranksters invade the X Factor stage after Honey G performs All washed up! People desperately try free 4x4 stuck on beach Surprise Castro is dead: Florida grandmother is shocked! 100 special police agents protect suspected paedophile from mob Bear with us!: Workers rescue bear under concrete pit in Turkey Trollstation celebrate storming the X Factor stage in Wembley Girlfriend confronts'cheating boyfriend' at supermarket It was a long and tiresome night for 10-year-old Barron Trump Surprise Castro is dead: Florida grandmother is shocked! Girlfriend confronts'cheating boyfriend' at supermarket Trump nemesis Rosie O'Donnell is slammed after speculating... Homeless man who turned freeway underpass into a personal... Trump launches furious morning Twitter rant at Hillary,... Donald goes to war as Hillary backs recount: Trump accuses... REVEALED: California supermom was heavily beaten and chained... Cop tries desperately to save a one-month-old girl who... Skating on thin ice: Wife of Vladimir Putin's spokesman... ISIS fighters target Israel for the first time and are... Thousands of fans BOO Colin Kaepernick in Miami after he... The curious demise of internet mogul once worth $95m who now... From sneaking into your teacher's house to winning prizes... Talk is cheap!

The world of big data analytics is incredibly diverse, and people are coming up with new analytic tools and techniques every day. But one particularly productive combination that should not be overlooked involves the use of text analytics and machine learning. Tom Sabo, principal solutions architect at analytics giant SAS, says the one-two punch of predictive modeling on structured data, and text mining with unstructured data, can deliver insights that are more than the sum of their analytic parts. "They really run side by side," Sabo tells Datanami. "Let's say somebody has predictive models in place against whether customer will churn or to maximize profit, for instance. If they have text, like notes, in the rest of that structured data…we can incorporate that additional free form information for actionable insight."

Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we've believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We've also believed that the market in labour, where we go to find work, has been relatively efficient in allocating opportunities and incomes. And we've believed that, even if it sucks, a job gives meaning, purpose and structure to our everyday lives – at any rate, we're pretty sure that it gets us out of bed, pays the bills, makes us feel responsible, and keeps us away from daytime TV. These beliefs are no longer plausible. In fact, they've become ridiculous, because there's not enough work to go around, and what there is of it won't pay the bills – unless of course you've landed a job as a drug dealer or a Wall Street banker, becoming a gangster either way.