First, I offer you a review of the movie "Sully" -- and don't worry, there aren't any spoilers. Because you know how the story goes: Birds hit plane. Pilot, nicknamed "Sully," lands plane on Hudson. So how do you make a movie out of something when everyone knows how it turns out? Yes, you can bring up the success of the film "Titanic," but it's not like there was actual footage of that disaster on YouTube.

"We are Now Controlling the Transmission" If you aren't familiar with the 60's TV series "The Outer Limits" you need to watch this intro (its 58 seconds long). Artificial Intelligence is controlling more than you realize, and in 2017, it's going to accelerate. AI algorithms are already affecting which products & services you see when you perform a search – regardless of the device or interface. AI is pushing messages, offers, & advice to you that you may never have asked for. Artificial Intelligence is deciding what shows up in your news feeds, on the sites you frequent, and in the apps you use.

"Fake news" vexed the media classes greatly in 2016, but the tech world perfected the art long ago. With "the internet" no longer a credible vehicle for Silicon Valley's wild fantasies and intellectual bullying of other industries – the internet clearly isn't working for people – "AI" has taken its place. Almost everything you read about AI is fake news. The AI coverage comes from a media willing itself into a mind of a three year old child, in order to be impressed. For example, how many human jobs did AI replace in 2016?

I've been following the idea of algorithm-driven design for several years now and have collected some practical examples. The tools of the approach can help us to construct a UI, prepare assets and content, and personalize the user experience. The information, though, has always been scarce and hasn't been systematic. However, in 2016, the technological foundations of these tools became easily accessible, and the design community got interested in algorithms, neural networks and artificial intelligence (AI). Now is the time to rethink the modern role of the designer. One of the most impressive promises of algorithm-driven design was given by the infamous CMS The Grid3. It chooses templates and content-presentation styles, and it retouches and crops photos -- all by itself. Moreover, the system runs A/B tests to choose the most suitable pattern.

Some of our best minds in tech have set out to tackle the problem of fake news with the help of artificial intelligence. A group of researchers, academics, engineers and hackers have come together with the hope that human fact-checkers will pick up the slack when AI technology reaches its limits. This grassroots movement spurred a website, the Twitter hashtag #FakeNewsChallenge, and a presence within online communities like Slack and GitHub. Cade Metz, a senior staff writer at Wired who wrote about this crusade, joined Marketplace host Lizzie O'Leary to talk about AI's role in the fight against fake news. The following transcript was edited for clarity and brevity.

One of the most anticipated franchise movies of next year is 20th Century Fox and Ridley Scott's prequel-sequel Alien: Covenant, and during an exclusive chat with star Michael Fassbender for Assassin's Creed today, we asked him how his new android role Walter differs from the nefarious antics of Prometheus's David, who also shows up for the new film. "I think Walter's a real different kettle of fish," Fassbender told us. "David was definitely a work-in-progress, somewhat of a prototype I suppose. The elements of him that were the human elements I think people found a little disturbing, so Walter's more of a straightforward robot. It sounds like Walter has more in common with a helpful robot like Bishop from Aliens as opposed to Ian Holm's "twitchy" Ash in Scott's original Alien.

Seiko, Westinghouse and Element Electronics announced a series of 4k sets with Amazon Fire TV technology built-in. The series includes Amazon's interface, along with support for a voice remote with Amazon Alexa. The new Amazon Fire TV series will allow customers access to a selection of streaming and over-the-air content in one place, including more than 6,000 channels, apps and live TV broadcasts when used with a separate HD antenna. The programming guide makes it easy to find what to watch, and thanks to the voice remote with Alexa, you can use your voice to launch apps, search content and play music. "Teaming up with brands including Seiki, Westinghouse and Element on a new range of smart TVs allows Amazon to deliver an experience that's familiar and easy to use," said Marc Whitten, vice president, Amazon Fire TV.

Machine learning used to take place behind the scenes: Amazon mined your clicks and purchases for recommendations, Google mined your searches for ad placement, and Facebook mined your social network to choose which posts to show you. But now machine learning is on the front pages of newspapers, and the subject of heated debate. Learning algorithms drive cars, translate speech, and win at Jeopardy! What can and can't they do? Are they the beginning of the end of privacy, work, even the human race?

When machines are able to do anything humans can -- be it farming, factory-working, or stock-trading -- they'll do it in a fraction of the time, experts reason, eventually rendering the human workforce redundant. Even creative fields aren't safe: artificial intelligence has already begun making its mark in journalism, fine art, and music. How could something so fundamentally subjective, so human, as art be mechanized? In fact, the Oakland-based novelist and self-described "tech-adjacent media inventor" is so unbothered by the idea, he's already invited robots into his workplace. Earlier this year, Sloan, a former Twitter employee, pieced together a program powered by basic applied AI to co-write short stories with him.

The "willing suspension of disbelief" is the idea that the audience (readers, viewers, content consumers) is willing to suspend judgment about the implausibility of the narrative for the quality of the audience's own enjoyment. We do it all the time. Two-dimensional video on our screens is smaller than life and flat and not in real time, but we ignore those facts and immerse ourselves in the stories as if they were real. We have also learned the "conventions" of each medium. While we watch a movie or a video, we don't yell to the characters on the screen "Duck!" or "Look out!" when something is about to happen to them.