Artificial Intelligence in Social Media: What AI Knows About You, and What You Need to Know

For the 1964 World Fair, science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote an article for the New York Times, envisioning what the exhibits at the event would look like in fifty years' time. Asimov's predictions were scrutinized and used in numerous think pieces and tech forecasts of 2014, the year that marked the passing of the five decades since the article's publish date. Since a large body of Asimov's work concerned itself with human relationship with artificial intelligence, much attention was focused on the following quote: "If machines are that smart today, what may not be in the works 50 years hence? It will be such computers, much miniaturized, that will serve as the "brains" of robots." Most writers summarized that, while the closest we have to an android housekeeper is a Roomba, Asimov was right to draw the parallel between brains and computers.