Facebook touts AI benefits as job risks loom

Silicon Valley is training computers to see, hear and speak and cars and trucks to drive themselves. Some people aren't so sure how they feel about this new wave of artificial intelligence that summons fears of Terminator-like sentient machines. So Facebook is trying to dispel some of the pop-culture myths with a series of six instructional videos that attempt to explain this complex field of computer science. Whether searching on your smartphone for a good place to eat or trying to avoid traffic on the commute home, Facebook says you are already using artificial intelligence all the time. "I think the more open we can be about it and the more we can demystify and explain how it actually works, the more quickly we can address concerns," said Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, director of applied machine learning at Facebook.