Nine Experts on the Single Biggest Obstacle Facing AI and Algorithms in the Next Five Years

Five years ago, the world of artificial intelligence--and the algorithms it runs on--looked very different. Asking your Google Home to play Adele's chart-topping single wasn't possible yet. IBM Watson was still widely considered a beacon for AI advancement, and DeepMind's AI victory over a human at Go was still fresh. Machine learning engineers were facing earlier versions of today's image classification and speech recognition challenges. And though most tech giants hadn't earmarked corporate funding for ethical AI, the conversation was becoming more mainstream as the impact of algorithms on human lives became clearer.