AI Fails and What They Teach Us About Emerging Technology

These days, we've become all but desensitized to the miraculous convenience of AI. We're not surprised when we open Netflix to find feeds immediately and perfectly tailored to our tastes, and we're not taken aback when Facebook's facial recognition tech picks our face out of a group-picture lineup. Ten years ago, we might have made a polite excuse and beat a quick retreat if we heard a friend asking an invisible person to dim the lights or report the weather. Now, we barely blink -- and perhaps wonder if we should get an Echo Dot, too. We have become so accustomed to AI quietly incorporating itself into almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives that we've stopped having hard walls on our perception of possibility.