How Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionize Our Lives

A Master Algorithm would allow machines to learn anything from data, and has applications in fields from marketing to medicine. But to do that we need a deeper understanding of learning in our own brains. This helmet of sensors is part of a brain scanner. We may not be aware of it, but machine learning is already an integral part of our daily lives, from the product choices that Amazon offers us to the surveillance of our data by the National Security Agency. Few of us understand it or the implications, however.