Prior to the Baltimore Ravens' win over the Chicago Bears, Lamar Jackson ordered the locker room stripped of video games, ping pong tables and cornhole boards.

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in testing, much of the interest and innovation today revolves around the concept of using these technologies to improve and accelerate the practice of testing. The more interesting problem lies in how you should go about testing the AI/ML applications themselves. In particular, how can you tell whether or not a response is correct? Part of the answer involves new ways to look at functional testing, but testers face an even bigger problem: cognitive bias, the possibility that an application returns an incorrect or non-optimal result because of systematic inflection in processing that produces results that are inconsistent with reality. This is very different from a bug, which you can define as an identifiable and measurable error in a process or result.

I am roaming the ravaged streets of Los Angeles while Patrick Mahomes is in my ears; directing me to watch my back. Despite the best efforts of the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and the reigning NFL MVP, I am no match for the sniper sitting atop a nearby roof who takes me out in front of a police car. "I told you to watch out," Mahomes said. Thankfully I have a next time because Mahomes and I are playing "Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 'Operation Grand Heist,'" which was released this week. Mahomes was in Los Angeles to get a tour of Treyarch, a video game developer in Santa Monica, which developed the game and six other "Call of Duty" titles dating to "Call of Duty 2: Big Red One" in 2005.

In a week where North Korea insisted that America had declared war and Puerto Rico suffered one of the worst natural disasters in its history, headlines were nonetheless dominated by a war of words between Donald Trump and the National Football League. Speaking in Alabama, the President declared that he would like to see NFL owners whose players knelt during the national anthem to "get that son of a b*tch off the field right now. Trump's comments insisting that players be compelled to stand during the national anthem put a spotlight a handful of NFL players who continued the protest initiated last year by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. In response to Trump's comments, every NFL team – and nearly every owner – offered some version of protest in Week 3. The controversy around the NFL protests and Trump's comments raised many questions about the nature of peaceful protest, what the national anthem represents and, what rights are protected by the First Amendment. These are thorny, complicated questions, and researchers at Unanimous AI sought to untangle them by forming a swarm of thirty American voters inside our Swarm AI platform.