Why the Robots Won't Watch Our Movies – Inside Machine learning – Medium

As machine learning, and especially deep learning, achieve greater cognitive feats -- winning at Jeopardy and Go, recognizing images and spoken language, and soon enough driving without drivers -- we're reaching for the next challenges, including teaching AIs how to understand our human needs and respond accordingly. The exploration is already underway on many fronts, and it won't be long before machine learning algorithms know enough to order pizza for your family -- or send an apologetic email to your spouse -- without you having to ask. In general, the data for these sympathetic systems will come from an array of sensors and from the content of our written and spoken communication. Taken together, that information could compel a well-trained machine learning algorithm to phone in an order for a couple of pizzas (with healthy toppings) -- before you lose your mind. The initial complexity comes from aggregating the data and assigning relative weights -- which the AI can refine as it trains on data from thousands of other households like yours.