I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer. I was inspired by a tweet I saw last week. I've lost the link but, to paraphrase, it went something like this: I'm okay submitting myself to The Algorithm as long as it knows when I'm sad and forwards cats directly to my face I figured that you could probably solve this problem locally without leaking any personal data. Our computers are fast enough that we can run machine learning models in a browser in the background, maybe without even noticing. I went with vladmandic/human -- another strong contender was justadudewhohacks/face-api.js.

In another example of glacial bureaucracy, a committee from the European Parliament has written a report which recommends a meeting about robots and artificial intelligence (AI), reports Jamie Davies at Telecoms.com The Legal Affairs Committee has produced a report that strongly urges the European Commission (hereafter known as the Gaggle of Red-tapers) to create legislation and regulation to govern the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence. It suggests the Gaggle of Red-tapers creates a new department to "to supply public authorities with technical, ethical and regulatory expertise". The Legal Affairs Committee set up this working group to look into artificial intelligence in April 2016, and it would appear this report is the result of ten months' hard work. It took 21 MEP's, two of whom abstained from voting alongside two who rejected the proposals in the report (for some reason), ten months to come to the conclusion it should recommend the European Commission should regulate the development of artificial intelligence.