Awesome, not awesome.

#Awesome

“I think a lot about how we can use A.I. to transform dating in the next five years. The [AI-powered] Tinder voice app might pop up and say, ‘There’s someone down the street that we think you’re going to be attracted to, and he’s/she’s also attracted to you, and guess what, they’re free tomorrow night! And we know you both like this indie band, and it’s playing, so would you like us to buy you tickets?” — Sean Rad, Entrepreneur. Learn More on Inverse >

#Not Awesome

“A thief can stop an [autonomous] car with the driver in it by bumping it deliberately with another car, creating a distraction or blocking the road with some kind of physical barrier. This creates a problem for self-driving cars, which are explicitly designed to be risk averse when it comes to interactions with pedestrians. Pedestrians could learn to become more aggressive when crossing roads in front of autonomous vehicles with the knowledge that the vehicle would be forced to stop. Criminal gangs could “herd” an autonomous vehicle into a position where it could be commandeered, or the driver harmed.” — Corin Faife, Freelancer. Learn More on Motherboard >

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What we’re reading.

1/ Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, is suing Uber for stealing more than $500 billion worth of autonomous vehicle IP. Learn More on The New York Times >

2/ AI will make super personalized, borderline creepy advertisements possible, but it won’t replace the creative humans coming up with the ideas behind them. Learn More on CNBC >

3/ You may not realize it, but you’re experiencing AI every time you use Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger. Learn More on Backchannel >

4/ If advances in AI aren’t transparent to citizens, we should say goodbye to Democracy, and hello to a global society where people are “programmed” how to think and act. Learn More on Scientific American >

5/ New Jersey replaces its bail system with an algorithm that predicts the risk of defendants committing future crimes, but offers no solution for over-policing of minority neighborhoods. Learn More on Motherboard >

6/ An AI hedge fund creates a digital token to let traders bet on the success of their machine learning models, and unlike Wall Street, encourage collaboration. Learn More on Wired >

7/ An Alphabet company is using machine learning to make comment sections on the internet a little less disgusting. Learn More on The New York Times >

Links from the community.

“Actors, teachers, therapists — think your job is safe from artificial intelligence? Think again” written by dan tynan (@tynanwrites). Learn More on The Guardian >

“AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs” submitted by Avi Eisenberger (@aeisenberger). Learn More on New Scientist >

“The Caavo streaming box is built on game-changing machine vision for TV” submitted by rajan. Learn More on the Verge >

“The future of AI in fashion” submitted by Keith Swiader (@keithswiader). Learn More on Glossy >

“No, robots aren’t killing the American dream” submitted by Jake Wolfin. Learn More on The New York Times >

“Outsource your boring back office paperwork to AI” submitted by Li Jiang (@gsvpioneer). Learn More on VentureBeat >

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