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Will A.I. Be Able to Self-Program the Randomness of Life?

#artificialintelligence

Facebook's news feed has recently been taken to task for the explosion of "fake news" that can have real consequences. Music curation has moved from record labels and radio stations to increasingly AI-based algorithms. We are all accustomed to this intrusion of machine intelligence into our lives over the past decade -- systems watching our behavior and trying to infer what we want, and then combining such information with that from other sources so as to create a complex consumer profile that is valuable to advertisers. What happens when the next generation of intelligent systems mediate our environments completely? Or, more to the point, what happens when we delegate the curation of all aspects of our lives, as well as the actual physical appearance of the world, to a pervasive network that learns about us and continually adapts to our needs and desires?