What Do You Know About Artificial Intelligence & How It May Affect Your Life?

Ideas about artificial intelligence (AI) have tended to swirl around without offering me much to think about. I use Siri and Hello Google on my iPhone, I'm aware of the increasingly powerful social media algorithms, and I've watched, with some interest, the accomplishments of IBM's Watson. Yet I haven't really thought much about it. The developments and decisions made about AI over the next couple of years may well affect our lives and the lives of our descendants. It's best to get to know a bit about what is going on, especially when it comes to personal privacy, and also to ensure that our children learn about the positive and negative aspects of artificial intelligence. Over the past several days I've read Maureen Dowd's long and detailed report in Vanity Fair, Elon Musk's Future Shock, describing the unbridled, and sometimes turbulent Silicon Valley debate about AI.