Artificial Intelligence: It's Complicated And Unsettling, But Inevitable

If artificial intelligence came to life today and set up a facebook profile, it would have a relationship with all of us, and our relationship status would be "It's Complicated". Although we don't see the motivation or reasoning behind the algorithms we spend so much time with, they are doing great things for us, and so we love them. Unfortunately, we don't necessarily understand them or how they will change us. By we, I don't just mean the general public. I mean software developers, their managers, and even machine learning engineers. AI does some things well and some things poorly, but on balance, the benefits exceed the costs of having an algorithm making decisions.