Every week, I help people like you on my national radio show with their technology or digital life issues. Sometimes, the answer is simple. I recommend a great way to get something done online, give a shopping recommendation, or share my tech wisdom. Other times, the issue is harder to pinpoint. Here's a common question I get: "A friend called and said they got a strange email from me that I don't remember sending.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us. It is playing a vital role from Facebook News Feed to Google Search. Despite the technology's relative novelty, the general public as well as businesses have already witnessed numerous applications of AI and are, by now, convinced about AI's ability to replicate human thought and assist in performing cognitive and creative tasks. Artificial intelligence has quickly grown from being a distant hope to a casual part of the present reality. Computer programs capable of performing human-like cognitive and computational tasks without human intervention are rapidly growing in capability as well as ubiquity.

"I'm increasingly coming to terms with the fact that I may never get married," said Mustafa, a 34-year-old Black Muslim man who asked that we not use his real name. He has been on two dates with women he met on dating apps in the past year – and they left him feeling fatigued and doubtful that he would ever find a genuine connection with someone. He had turned to the apps, he said, because, there is no dating scene in his British-Somali community. But, he lamented, "it's really hard to find someone. This is not how Mustafa imagined his life would be in his mid-thirties. When he was younger, he pictured himself as a devoted husband and loving father to a couple of children by now. In this mental image of familial bliss, he was also living in a picturesque cottage in the English countryside complete with "a lake or something". Instead, he recently celebrated his 34th birthday single and living in a flat overlooking the Wembley Stadium arch in North West London. But, he added with a shrug, "I've started learning how to cycle." Discussing his hobbies and interests – cycling, reading, writing – he sounds more optimistic. He has directed his energy away from the fickle and unpredictable pursuit of love and towards those variables of his life he can control, like picking up new pastimes. 'All they see is a Black guy' Although the United Kingdom's Black Muslim community is culturally diverse, including people from a wide range of African and Caribbean backgrounds, it only comprises 10 percent of the UK's Muslim population. This can make dating or finding a marriage partner particularly difficult. A recent survey by Muzmatch, a Muslim-specific dating app that has been heralded for helping 20,000 Muslims meet and marry since its launch in 2015, revealed the challenges faced by Black Muslims dating in the UK. Muzmatch asked 471 of their members from different ethnic groups if they felt that race and ethnicity affected the matches they received and whether they had negative experiences as a result of this. In their answers, Black users pointed to a range of issues – including fetishisation, colourism and discrimination. Most of the Black women surveyed complained about being fetishised and branded "exotic". One West African woman described how dark-skinned women were considered unattractive and how she had been called the n-word by one user. A Sudanese man expressed concern that he was matched with women with similar interests to him who subsequently rejected him because their family wouldn't accept him. "It doesn't matter if you're on your deen and have a successful career.

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Google is seeking volunteers for a new beta app called Project Relate, which aims to provide people with speech impairments with a voice assistant that can transcribe their speech in real time as well synthesize what they are saying. The app is part of Project Euphoria, which is a wider endeavor started in 2019 that's aimed at collecting data to be used for improving Google's AI algorithms when it comes to handling speech from people who "have difficulty being understood by others," such as those affected by neurological conditions. As for the Relate app, it has three key features. The Listen feature will transcribe a user's speech in real time, allowing them to copy and paste into other apps or show to other people. The Repeat feature will restate what the user is saying in a "clear synthesized voice," which Google hopes will aid face-to-face conversations and help when people with speech impairments want to speak a command to a smart home device.

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That is a relatively simple summary of the overall explanation of recommendation architecture as a theory for higher cognition in the brain. However, it is not yet obvious in this explanation where we get general intelligence and consciousness. Why should we need to pay extra attention to these two features is of special interest. Not only are general intelligence and consciousness the two most sought after functions in artificial intelligence and related computational work, but there is good reason for it. It stands to reason that the implications of computationally instantiated general intelligence would be able to solve many of our toughest problems and more quickly than any human, or perhaps teams of people, could attempt.

In this paper, we present an approach for predicting trust links between peers in social media, one that is grounded in the artificial intelligence area of multiagent trust modeling. In particular, we propose a data-driven multi-faceted trust modeling which incorporates many distinct features for a comprehensive analysis. We focus on demonstrating how clustering of similar users enables a critical new functionality: supporting more personalized, and thus more accurate predictions for users. Illustrated in a trust-aware item recommendation task, we evaluate the proposed framework in the context of a large Yelp dataset. We then discuss how improving the detection of trusted relationships in social media can assist in supporting online users in their battle against the spread of misinformation and rumours, within a social networking environment which has recently exploded in popularity. We conclude with a reflection on a particularly vulnerable user base, older adults, in order to illustrate the value of reasoning about groups of users, looking to some future directions for integrating known preferences with insights gained through data analysis.

Monica Lam is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University since 1988. She is the faculty director of the Open Virtual Assistant Lab (OVAL). She received a B.Sc. from University of British Columbia in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987. Monica is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. She is a co-author of the popular text Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition), also known as the Dragon book.

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