Democrat Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said the U.S. has become an "oligarchic society" while responding to President Donald Trump's address to a joint Congress Tuesday evening. "The Trump administration is not hiding it," Sanders said in a streamed response to Trump's address Tuesday. "The Trump administration is a government of the billionaire class by the billionaire class, and for the billionaire class. Notwithstanding some of their rhetoric, this is a government that could care less about ordinary Americans and the working families of our country. My friends, we are no longer moving toward oligarchy. We are living in an oligarchic society."

In the middle of the highway, my father turned to our car navigation system for directions. Before chalking out a route from Calcutta to Santiniketan, the system asked our language preference -- would we want to be guided through the alleys, bridges and villages in English, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, the list went on and on. We have come a long way since the days when the only way to communicate with devices was via the keyboard or keypad. But how does a computer, or any system built on technology, think, understand, and, in the case of car navigation systems, even speak in regional languages? Artificial intelligence, of course -- one of the most important parts of which is the concept of natural language processing or NLP.

A so-called'DeepFake' video of a Trump speech was broadcast on a Fox-owned Seattle TV network, showing a very present AI threat. The station, Q13, broadcasted a doctored Trump speech in which he somehow appeared even more orange and pulled amusing faces. Following the broadcast, a Q13 employee was sacked. It's unclear if the worker created the clip or whether it was just allowed to air. The video could be the first DeepFake to be televised, but it won't be the last.

After feeding 270,000 words into a computer program that studies language patterns, The New Yorker got a result that's about as awful as the real thing. The preceding speech was written entirely by this AI language model. Unlike human speech, The New Yorker could dial the program up from one to five, each with its pros and cons. Level one, for example, is fairly accurate speech, albeit with lots of repetition. At level five, we see the program work at full capacity, but what comes out is, believe it or not, actually more nonsensical than Trump's actual speech.