5 TED Talks on AI to watch

How is artificial intelligence changing the world? Will it replace half your employees? Earlier this year at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, automation experts Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, co-authors of "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies," declared that if anything, we have "underestimated" automation's likely effects on the workforce. An explosion of data is fueling rapid advances in machine learning, Brynjolfsson notes. As a result, jobs involving pattern matching, such as pathologists, may experience severe disruption, he says.