many of the a.i. researchers here are working on autonomy, which is having a machine survive by themselves and figure out things by themselves when humans can't help them. many of the other folks here work on cognitive assistance, which is all about machines helping humans be smarter. >> rose: when people think about artificial intelligence, they're thinking about trair trying to get at human intelligence and even to do it better. >> yes. >> rose: what's the barometer, though, to measure the progress in a.i.? >> my favorite barometer is how much does the boring part of my life get done for me by machines. 100 years ago, people said if a machine can multiply two numbers together, it's artificial intelligence. we are growing up where we don't regard that as particularly intelligent. 20 years ago, it was beating humans at chess. nowadays it's things like really acting like a human in your language dialogue between the computer and the human. so the barometer keeps changing, if you like. it's always the t

just build a.i. for its own sake. charlie: if you look ahead to where a.i. may go -- everyone talks about personal systems. what is the world of a.i. going to make for your daughter 10 years from now? andrew: here's the fun way of looking at it. super celebrities, they walk around with a team of people with clipboards managing everything. we will have technology matching all this up for us. you want to be dialing for an uber. charlie: they will know where i am and where i have to be, and they will know where i want to go. andrew: that's right. this idea that we have fancy concierges helping us in our lives, that will be kind of fun. i think the important things are, somebody slips and falls late at night. a throne will be there to help them almost immediately. charlie: they will know this person has fallen. andrew: exactly. we will have machines looking out for us to make sure we are ok. charlie: is that near? andrew: it's already here in that many people have sensors on the move. the hospital will b

the physical things we need ultimately will be provided to a.i.ontrolled 3-d printing at very low cost. we will have the physical resources to provide the highest levels and are delivering for everyone in the world and we are already well underway towards that. poverty and a shot over the last 25 years has been cut by 90% according to the world bank and south america and africa are not told they moving in the right direction so we are wealthier, but our perception of what is wrong with the world is increasing. they will have more information about the threats to their economic security and data sent in a security and understand and apply to focus on any election is people are better off but perception of their economic security is infused with more knowledge of the change in the world. we adapt very quickly. we think it's always been not play. >> to other smart fellows who have a less rosy for shand relating to add. elon musk and bill gates say that a.i., artificial intelligence represents our greatest existential threat. >> i started writing abou

government spends annually on a.i. research, funding a.i. basic research, the president released a report. a.i. should be important. and the number was a billion dollars. it is nothing. i mean, we probably need at least 10 times that. >> i agree. and it should be a public/private partnership. we need government, families, all of the institutions, just coming back to you, regarding your home country, for example, romania and other places, you see when i had trouble in the region, i was just in slovenia alone, they have invested heavily in a lot of the artificial intelligence research and people but it's not reaching the markets. how do we bring that talent that right now everybody is looking for talent of specific a.i. talent in data modeling, statistics. how do we bring this talent into the united states to develop market-ready solutions and products? >> so that's a great question. i would say that we have a lot of talent at the top universities in the united states but it's not easy for our students to graduate to remain in our country and

they shifted all their attention towards a.i. a.i.st company and it's paid off for them in pretty significant ways. alpha go was an algorithm that was a big win. it was an impressive feat. they beat this game what people didn't think they could accomplish for a decade now. and then they put together a leading library of machine learning and they really have shown they're ahead of the curve there. alphabet the structure, more in 2015 but 2016 really showed investors are seeing a lot more transparency and a lot more confident in google's ad revenue. caroline: and google photos. that's something i have been adopting. mark: yeah. messaging has been a mitt. alo is the app they put out which i don't think any of us use. i am not sure many people use. they're still behind on facebook in messaging. sarah: well, facebook messager, instagram has messaging now. they're everywhere. caroline: alex, the juggernaut that is apple, it's still the most valuable company in the world. we can't take that away from them. what are the misss? alex: can't tak

one possibility of course is using a.i. hat a recent round taibl the head of a.i.earch said the technology could be used to take down fake news, detect violence on live videos, "this isn't magic. this isn't terminator either. this is real technology that could be useful." the key they say is using the technology responsibly. how much is an empty promise? >> they can do it. i put a tweet up last weekend saying if they're always so smart 364 days a year and when something's really problematic, they can't do it, oh, it's super hard. i was joking about it but i got a lot of responses from technologi technologists. it's a very hard problem. false positives, all kinds of things and whether facebook or twitter or any of these people should be deciding what is news. tame, they pretend they're not media companies. they are creating problems and making money off it. they have to think hard about the technological solutions to deal with it. they can deal with child pornography and all kinds of things in their advertising and fraud. they should be able to do this but it's a li

the company but the a.i. firm geometric intelligence that will develop a.i.driving cars become more efficient and will help teach computers to think like humans. the technology aims to more accurately estimate rendered locations in the travel time. nicole: -- cheryl: under armor but they tended to major league baseball. under armor replacing majestic athletic as a supplier for 2020. the front of the major professional sports uniform for the first time that under armor will decide the jerseys but fanatics is going to make and sell them. coming up, the housing market recovering. other luxury home market and will tell you what to expect. how about 12 bucks for a cup of joe. we'll tell you all about it. you are watching "fbn:am." ♪ [vo] is it a force of nature? or a sales event? the season of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. cheryl: 5:45 a.m. in your paper escape hybrid that's happening now. donald trump's teeny matcher was yesterday. the ivanka has sued north caroli

coming up, it is a race for the best a.i. talent among big tech.is the most recent two hoop on board. we will break down the new research arm, uber ai lab. this is bloomberg. ♪ reporter: a story we are following. nissan is getting a step closer to driverless cars with driverless tow trucks. nissan is testing out self driving machines in japan that would carry cars to the nearby wharf for loading onto transport ships. they hope to spread the technology throughout the plant by 2019 and have overseas plans in the future. staying with car tech, uber is betting big on artificial intelligence. the start of company purchased a geometric intelligence company. labs.reated uber a.i. they will help self driving ubers navigate the roads. joining me now in the studio is eric newcomer, who covers uber for us. how will this purchase change the uber experience for me? manus >> uber has a lot of data problems you do not see, especially when it comes to carpooling, picking up multiple passengers. you are try to figure out as the driver is moving, how do you cram the

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the a.i.ered smart speaker shows there is a lucrative consumer market for voice activated system in the home. something apple can no longer ignore. ♪ >> the top five most valuable tech companies in the world are all betting big on the success of virtual assistance that respond to voice commands. the race really started with amazon's surprise hit, the echo, powered by a digital assistant named alexa. >> alexa, how many championships has dan morino won? >> dan marino has won zero championships. >> alexa, how many oscars has baldwin won? >> alex baldwin has won zero oscars. >> alexa, stop. >> echo debuted in mid-2015 and by april 2016 consumer researchers reported that amazon had already sold more than three million devices. and it was cheap, selling for the relatively low price of $180 a pop, but the real pay-off was in amazon's core e-commerce business. >> more importantly, it actually adds into the ecosystem that amazon has where they only have a bunch of traffic coming to their website, but t

are you, do you have a lot of a.i. engineers trying to figure out what you're, what borrower is going to do in a year? >> our greatest skill is predicting consumer behavior. we are all about understanding what a consumer is likely to do in the future. historically, the people who are most interested in that were big-six decisions like money decisions, should we give you a mortgage, a credit card? increasingly, we made up lower costs to figure out how a consumer is going to behave. now it's interesting for marketing. it's interesting, what should we offer? how likely is a consumer to click on this link? for upsell, for cross-sell. >> you're not using my fico score, whether i'll click on that link. you're saying you're good at gathering data. >> good point we have our scores business, where we predict consumer pre-pennsylvaniaty to repay demt and then our analytic software business, all about predicting all different kinds of things about consumer behavior. we look at past behavior and predict future behavior. we're with

it will be another year of waiting for a.i.rless cars. >> a lot has been happening on those fronts. >> of course there is but not in the way you can invest successfully. you can invest the dream. you can invest in the sales pitch, but the fundamentals aren't there yet. what we've learned in silicon valley is these things always take longer to start than you think, and once they start they happen much faster than you think. we just -- i don't think any of those big things kick in in 2017 but i would love to be proven wrong. >> we'll have you back in 2020 to talk about it. roger, happy new year. >> great to see you all. take care. we'll see you next week. >> when we come back, more on the latest from washington, d.c., following putin's wait-and-see response. then the final trading day of the year is upon us and we're breaking out the 2017 cnbc playbook. and recode's kara swisher on why silicon valley should actually be looking forward to a trump presidency. all that and more when "squawk alley" returns. ♪ thita leak in the roof.t

particularly when you mentioned a.i., but the importance around a.i.s of getting it to work well is having the data and having the training, right? so if you don't do it now, your product or experience is not going to be as good as the next guy's and you will potentially be shut out of the market. so if you look at amazon as multiple to revenues, trades about a third of google's yet both moving to voice, search and areas that are similar. if you look at it to gmv, it trades closer to brick and mortar retailer yet without all of the secular tailwinds amazon has. so i think it's more of an acceptance that investors have to get comfortable with around the investments amazon is making and the general overall horizon you're looking towards. >> what if we see, ken, more america first type economic policies, protectionist policies including in any tax reform we'd get including the import tax, border adjustment x what would that mean for a company that sources so many products from all over the world like amazon? >> you know, i think we'll have to wait and see

move from being considered a gaming chip company to one now so much embedded in this whole theme of a.ias ilt grows and grows machine learning, all the data that's got to come off so they can get smarter. >> and what kind of competition is there. and also what chunk of the business. i think luck's point last night on "fast money" is this is still a business where dominant theme is gaming. >> right. >> bullish on that to get that valuation at this point. >> and threat of rivals whether it's big names like intel or other smaller names to fight back. even if they don't steal all of the market share, they certainly hit the margins nvidia's been performing on pretty impressively. interesting to see not much of a move in apple. i suppose we wouldn't have expected much off the back of that, but it's down fractionally but nothing too meaningful. >> some of the health care names are up. they're leading the dow, pfizer, unh and merck. obviously health care is going to be an important one to watch in terms of leadership and lagging, mike. it is still the worst performing s&p sector year-to-date. a

know, i think it's really interesting that a lot of the media have latched on to the 6% job loss and a.id the broader context of why that's important and how that's going to play out is kind of, it's kind of being missed. so we're seeing a lot of automation that, over time by 2021, is going to create jobs at the same time that we're losing jobs. >> so what kind of new jobs are being created by this new technology? well, economists say that health care, the health care sector is seeing a huge demand for mid-skilled workers right now thanks to a.i., they also say new platform applications are popping up on your smartphone all the time and creating job opportunities that don't require new training or new skills. >> what we really mean by the gig economy is jobs that are created where people can apply the skills that they already have in something other than a full-time job to do things like, for instance, be an uber dreier or work tasks on task rabbit. >> all right. well, thanks to its technology, uber has created more driving jobs,en abling people who may not have worked as a driver to get

and we are part of and we formed the a.i. partnership with google and facebook and others to say, you need to take seriously the issues that come with the ethical side of artificial intelligence, in this case, not that you have read it, a very good paper i think the white house did, the office of science and technology, that frames these issues and what public debate and policies are required to have these technologies really do what we started come of bringing goodness to society in the trade-off. so i think, i do not mean to short count it, i think there are issues with where they are today and in the future and we should pay attention to these really valuable questions. promod haque: one more question. right there. get the mic. >> hi. i am alex. bm has gotten more patents than any other company in the world. do you envision dedicating some of those patent technologies, like elon musk has done, with tesla. dedicating those to the public? virginia rometty: we have. many times in our lifetime we have dedicated them and put th

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seven were completely ancillary tech companies, sales tracking, inventory management, application of a.i. for delivering the knowledge, you know, i was explaining, so complicated, the plant's complicated, all these delivery mechanisms and ailments. how's any one person going to have all that knowledge? that's where technology comes in handy. we can compile all the knowledge and provide an experience that is unique to each user. >> i definitely get the value of specialization with something that's this complicated in every sense of the plant and building a business, but do you worry this is just too narrow of a market? i think if they were hearing you saying you were of pot, no, the point is we don't go narrow. when they hear scott say that, the point is, they can be mattress companies, they can be mobile, they can be chat box, they can be whatever is exciting entrepreneurs. i guess my question is, what motivates you? because i think this is an exciting challenge. it would be hard to convince me that this is the best place to make money. >> sure, sure. yeah, you're not going to see pumpin

they shifted all their attention towards a.i. a.i. them in pretty significant ways. alpha go was an algorithm that was a big win. it was an impressive feat. they beat this game what people didn't think they could accomplish for a decade now. and then a library of machine learning and they really have shown they're ahead of the curve there. alphabet the structure, more in a phone but in 2016 showed -- more in 2015 but in 2016 showed they're a lot more confident in google's ad revenue. caroline: and google photos. mark: yeah. messaging has been a mitt. alo is the app they put out which i don't think any of us use. they're still behind on facebook in messaging. sarah: well, facebook messager, instagram has messaging now. they're everywhere. caroline: alex, the juggernaut that's apple, it's the most valuable company in the world. what are the misss? . ex: can't take it a miss apple have had their biggest -- saw revenue decline since 2003. iphone sales declined. and s.b.i. and privacy and their desire to protect users. and the messages. an

workplace, how it's being reshaped, because i know it's central to all of you is called how we turn a.i. into i.a. how do we take artificial intelligence and turn it into intelligent assistance, a-n-c-e, intelligent a-n-cs. so my example of intelligent assistance is i profile the human resources department at at&t. at&t, 360,000 employees. they live next to the supernova. they feel its heat every day. their human resources department pretty good chance what they're doing is going to come to a company near you. here's what they do. randall stevenson, their c.e.o., begins with a speech transparent how he sees the world, what businesses they will be in and what skills at&t employees are going to need. then they put every at&t employee on their own in-house system. and they look at it and they say, tom, can you -- you got 10 -- seven of the 10 skills you need to thrive here at at&t but >>9- thrive here at at&t but you're missing three. then they partner with sebastian from wadacity to create in an owe degrees for all 10 of those skills and they say we'll give you up to $8500 to take the cla

he said what i'm going to do, i'm going to give you a temporary pass and i'm going to give you a.i will g >> of papers for you to take home and fill them out. every night he said you fill them out because the secret service is going to check everything and if we find anything wrong then you can't work at the white house. i knew when i was coming up i might have done a few crookedven things but nobody knew nothingin about it and i did not to go to court or anything like that and it didn't mess up my record. i took the papers home and my mom and dad helped me of the papers and everything. ov i went to two mr. charlie rochester. i asked the secret service and they came to me and gave me the position to see mr. rochester that i would talk to him and he said this is what i'm going to do. he said why i'm going to do i'm going to take it to the white house and let you meet mr. wilson about washing the windows. i said yes sir. so i get over to the white house and i was a little nervous. i said mr. wilson he was actually cutting the putty out of the windows loading the class into the train. the

unemployment low.a nine-year but jobs are still under threat from the rise of a.i. and automation will be a deep dive, on what kind and how many. of anotherbreaking high-profile attack in saudi arabia. will the incoming trump able toration be effectively fight cyber warfare? hiring yet another head of product, we'll recap the our eyeies that caught this week. first, a mixed picture in the u.s. jobs report. workers todded more their payrolls and the to aloyment rate tumbled nine-year low, 4.6%. 4,000 manufacturing jobs were lost. earnings fell a tenth of a the participation rate continues to hover near the 1978. level since it's a kind of weakness that andtrated the middle class that president-elect capitalized on throughout the campaign. oure're gonna bring back jobs to pennsylvania. [cheering] back ourgonna bring jobs to the united states. your car industry is being michigan.y from it's happening. if i'm elected, you won't lose one plant. will be the greatest jobs god ever created! blames trade,rump others blame robots and say the rise of automation is really causi

but jobs are still under threat from the rise of a.i. and automation will be a deep dive, on what kind and how many. plus, news breaking of another high-profile attack in saudi arabia. will the incoming trump administration be able to effectively fight cyber warfare? and twitter hiring yet another head of product, we'll recap the top stories that caught our eye this week. first, a mixed picture in the u.s. jobs report. employers added more workers to their payrolls and the unemployment rate tumbled to a nine-year low, 4.6%. 4,000 manufacturing jobs were also lost. earnings fell a tenth of a percent, and the participation rate continues to hover near the lowest level since 1978. it's a kind of weakness that frustrated the middle class and that president-elect capitalized on throughout the campaign. >> we're gonna bring back our jobs to pennsylvania. [cheering] >> we're gonna bring back our jobs to the united states. your car industry is being sucked away from michigan. it's happening. if i'm elected, you won't lose one plant. >> i will be

senator koontz will be visited the wilmington police department and the children's advocacy center at a.i. dupont hospital for children. >>> mayor jim kenney unveiled a new task force to prevent lead poisonings in children. the rate of such poisonings is lower than ever about more needs to be done. they'll increase efforts to educate parents about the dangers of lead paint. >> it's one of these longstanding problems that none of us had anything to do with but we're all responsible for fixing. >> the mayor says the city does plan to put more money into lead enforcement and removal efforts but he's not yet ready to say how much. >>> pennsylvania's department of health has issued a health alert over a berks county dental clinics's sterilization practices. mice and cockroaches were found in the same area where state inspectors say dental instruments were being cleaned. family and specialty dentistry in reading is closed but state officials say patients should get checked for hepatitis and hiv. the state has suspended the owner's dental license. the nbc 10 investigators are also talking to the

can peacefully coexist and we'll take a look at the biggest ax break news from 2016, from personal a.i. assistance with eusable rockets becoming a reality. the obama administration has imposed sanctions against state officials and institutions in retaliation for hacking democratic party emails. public first they say was an unprecedented attempt to interfere with the 2016 election.al we spoke with former cia analyst now senior policy adviser project visit. >> there are nine people ntities mentioned on this sanctions list. crucially there are two really big names. the inherit for agency to the kgb, so russia's intelligence agency. the other is its military intelligence service. the gru. so, i mean, we've been speaking analysts all afternoon who say, you won't necessarily see targeted s at the gru as a result of being mentioned there, though individual members gru are actually mentioned as among the nine. signal sending a huge from the obama administration saying, pointing out the sort of seriousness of their intent to name and shame russian individuals and entities as they ahead looking

we'll discuss whether humans and a.i.exist and we'll take a look at the biggest tax break news from 2016, from

because bottom line, puzder himself, robots, a.i., software taking the lower level jobs anyway.lines occur. we need to talk about how to create a smarter, more productive middle-class group of workers that can really push growth forward, beyond what it is now. >> okay. here's what president-elect donald trump said last night in des moines. let's listen. >> whether it's producing steel, building cars or curing disease, we want the next generation of innovation and production to happen right here in america. we will have two simple rules when it comes to rebuilding this country. buy american and hire american. >> so the message there, rana, it's pretty clear. right? saying, buy american, hire american. is it that simple in a global economy? >> it's not "that" simple, no. economic growth is simple. economic growth is based on the number of workers you have in a country and how productive they are. what concerns me, demographics are actually hurt by some of the trump anti-immigration policies. you know, we need to talk about how to get more skilled immigrants in. how to get more imm

they also stopped by the children's advocacy center at a.i.ldren. >>> now to nbc 10 alert weather. a chilly day for sightseeing in philadelphia. the good news, places like the national constitution center and independence hall got heat. >> that's right, they're also fun to visit. you'll want a warm place to stay between now and tomorrow morning. nbc 10 chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz has details. >> absolutely. it's going to be a cold night, one of the areas that's happy about it, the ski areas at camelback. people are on the slopes already. they'll be able to make snow virtually every night for the rest of the week. and not a repeat of that very warm rain that they had early sunday morning. 30 degrees at philadelphia. now we got up to 34 today, but it didn't even get that warm in most of the rest of the area. we have dry conditions across the area. it's going to be that way during the night tonight. of course temperatures are going to go down even more. but we don't have any wind to speak of. so there's no windchill to add to t

emily: comma a.i. founder george hotz there.are stromile swiftly busting into new and unfamiliar territory. there is one commercial drone you may not have seen yet designed by massachusetts-based drone maker sci-fi works which already works with the air force and u.p.s. we visit their test facility for an exclusive look. >> hovering above the strees an unfamiliar object. a high-powered commercial drone. >> what you're seeing here is our park system. it is the reconnaissance and communications platform. >> these drones are not moving uch. they are tethered to the ground. >> >> lance is the c.e.o. of sci-fi works which makes these drones which can fly up to 400 feet for 220 hours. they are used at big events such as concerts and marathons. >> actually coming off that camera. yeah, we can lock in on a car. this is our payload. this is a cm 100 camera. it gives you three times optical zoom. >> it is latest start up by helen grainer. >> from a technology point of view we're rolling right along or flying right along. >> she is a co-fo

and we are part of and we formed the a.i. partnership with google and facebook and others to say, you have got to take seriously some of the issues that come with the ethical side of ai and in this case, there was a very good paper i think the white house did, the office of science and technology that frames what these kinds of issues are and what both public debate and policies are required to have these technologies really do what we started with, which was bring great goodness to society in the trade-off. i do not me too short count it, i think there are issues about where the technologies are today and in the first sealable future and i think we should pay attention to these really valuable questions. promod haque: one more question. right there. get the mic. >> hi. i am alex. ceo of the company called data nova. ibm has gotten more patents than any other company in the world. do you envision dedicating some of those patented technologies, much like what elon musk has done with tesla. do i envision dedicating those to the

the sixers will honor a.i. at halftime for being inducted into the basketball hall of fame. tonight at 11:00 on "action news." iverson's career is over. bernard hopkins career is coming to an end too. at 51 years old the boxer says tomorrow will finally be his last fight. bernard hopkins will step into the ring one last time against joe smith jr. who is nearly half his age. b hop has not fought in more than two years but he can still throw some attitude around. >> what i'm going to do is i'm going to spank him, teach him his abc's and then send him back to long island up the road from philadelphia. [laughter] >> love it b hop can still throw with the best of them. >> still talk that talk. >>> well, a local nonprofit organization that's helped improve the lives of the less fortunate got a big financial boost today. manna was presented a big check for $100,000 comments of nrg. workers didn't know they had won the award until this check presentation celebration. the donation is part of the nrg gives program which recognizes local charityies. di. that means incredibly fast 150 m

. >> i missed the a.i. >> i mean we've missed the entire run going forward. >> when you think about nvidia think about nxpi and what it was bought for? nvidia is valued higher at the time of the closing of the deal. >> it's reminiscing of the things we've seen and names that seem like they are accelerating. when you've got the growth and there are enough companies out there with plenty of cash looking for growth and look where they stand right now and vir actutwu virtual reality and storage and cloud, all of that is pretty inkreegii intriguin intriguing. >> i like how you turned this into a would you rather. >> i did. >> i'd rather nvidia. >> for more options action, check us out at 5:30. >>> b.k. is hanging up the bear suit. find out which one when "fast money" returns. hey nicole. y!hey nicole. justanteto thank yourupport team for walking me through my firstptions trade.w. well, i fe prettsmart. we, we're all out educatin people oopons raes. well, i fe prettsmart. won't lethisccomplisent well,go to my head. wait, you foot i' french dictionary. oh, mucho gracias. get he ooptions trading t

if are you in the chip sector that's in a.i. or if you are in something in the internet of things or something that's virtual reality, those are the areas that seem to be getting the most heat right now is and that would be where i would stick with. >> i would say large cap, texas instruments is a name you don't see the volatility that maybe you'll see in nvidea if it pulls back. i continue to own those names. i believe the sifi level being taken from $50 billion higher, and that benefits regions and certainly regional financials overall. >> everybody is after assets. we go up broad. michelle car usa cabrera will give us the names you need to watch. halftime report confessions. our desk breaking down the trades they regret this year. poor doc, and the lessons they learned as a result. >>> good day. i'm bill griffith. here's your cnbc news update. one shichinese citizen has been arrested and -- accused by breaking into computer networks at several law firms and using what they found for illegal insider stock trading. well, the bu

. >> they're working with aim a.i., they're applying it to their own business model. they've had great successes. they took on the game of "go" recently and won. i congratulate them. >> rose: that's more complex than jeopardy. >> no, i would say it's more like the chess game. it's a series of moves, more complicated, in the sense there is more potential moves than a chess game, but you're basically looking at combinations of steps. that's a different problem and, again, i congratulate them. >> rose: could you have beaten "go"? >> we didn't take that probable on. >> rose: but could you? if we had focused on that problem, we could have. but that was not our goal. >> rose: one game at a time. we wanted to go after the big data problem. we wanted to go after industries. we wanted to help humans that were basically in this cognitive overload because of information, and we wanted to help them make bet decisions. >> rose: is any of this scary to you? >> not at all. >> rose: all-owferl artificial intelligence, knows where we are, what we're doing, what we're thinking and some

. >> some high school kids got a special visitors today governor jack markell came to a.i. dupont high school to announce their school won innovation grants. the pathway too prosperity program let's high school seniors graduate with workplace experience even college credit to get them started on the right foot. congratulations to greenville delaware. >> much more still to come on "action news" tonight. a philadelphia jazz musician shared his talents for decades now but now he's sidelined because of a medical condition. the severe case that land him in the hospital for several weeks. >> plus protestors heading home after the controversial dakota access pipeline hits a construction roadblock. we'll be right back. >> ♪ >> a scruffy chaired a mistrial in the canes against south carolina police officer michael slager. he was accused of shooting and killing walter scott. the jury cop not reach a verdict even after judge gave them permission consider a lesser charge of manslaughter. the jurors deliberated for four days before they said they were unable to reach a unanimous decision. >>> futur

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a majority of the toys though will be donated to a.i. dupont children's hospital.arted this christmas quest last year with about 30 toys. this year he has 300. all in part from donations from a go fund me account he set up. >> very nice. >> still to come on "action news" at 4:00 a new warning about a scam that's targeting the elderly. you'll hear from one local man who lost thousands of dollars and we'll till how the scammers managed to trick him to get him to pay up. >> a doctor says children should not use technology like ipads or video games at all. but of course not everyone agrees. those stories and more when "action news" continues. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> "action news" continues with meteorologist adam joseph, alicia vitarelli, sharrie williams and brian taff. >> ♪ >> 4:30. we continue to follow breaking news in germany where at least nine people are dead after a truck slammed into a christmas market. at least 50 others have been injured. >> officials say a suspect has been arrested near the scene. german newspapers say police are working under the assumption that the

there's a lot of talk about a.i. are we seeing this play out in the world today? >> right in front of us on the road, william. we're seeing self-driving cars appear much faster than i think we are probably ready for. in parts of pittsburgh now, you can order up a self-driving uber. the human being is there to grab the wheel just in case, but basically we are well on our way to a world where we're not necessarily driving our cars anymore. this past year we had the first death of a person using a self-driving component of the tesla model s. so that's a little piece of history and a reminder, what tesla will tell you is it's still on a per-mile basis much safer than human beings drives. >> sreenivasan: before you go, the world of astronomy this week lost a luminary, vera rubin. can you tell us about her? >> she was an astronomer who forced the scientific community to realize the way it treated women. in the 1970 she realized the galaxies were spinning too fast. they would fly apart if they relied simply on the gravity of the things we can see around them. she knew th

demand for the a.i.roves there's a lucrative market for voice activated assistance in the home. something google and apple can no longer ignore. >> the top five most valuable tech companies in the world are all betting big on the success of virtual assistance that responds to voice commands. the rates really started with amazon's surprise hit, echo. it's powered by a digital assistance, alexia. >> how many championships has dan marino won? >> dan marino has won zero. >> how many oscars has alec baldwin won? >> alec baldwin has won none. >> consumer researchers said that amazon sold more than three million devices. and it was cheap. selling for the relatively low price of $180 a pop. but the real payoff was in amazon's core ecommerce business. >> the reason it's one of the faster growing business for amazon, it adds into the ecosystem that amazon has where they already have a bunch of traffic coming to their website but this is a chance for amazon to grab the traffic which is not online. >> echo owners ar

so my chapter on how the workplace is being reshaped is how we call turning a.i. into i.a.. we turn artificial intelligence into intelligent assistance, a-n-c-e and intelligence algorithms. so people can learn fast and govern smarter to live in an age when there is this change in the pace of change. one of the haroldest things for the human mind to grasp is the power of an exponential. and that's what we're in the middle of. my friends wrote a wonderful book called "the second machine age." like to tell the story of the man who invented chess, very well known story. the king said how can i reward you, good sir, and the man said i just want to feed my family. well, what would you like, the king said. he said i'd just like you to put two on the first square, four on the next, eight on the next, just keep doubling it, my family will be fine. the king said, no problem, it shall be done. not realizing when you double something 63 times the number you get is, like, 18 quinn until. and as andy and eric point out, we just intrpped the second half -- entered the second half of the ch

and it may not be necessarily served back to that person but some companies use it to improve their a.ier companies choose to not collect that and have some sort of privatization. look at what google and amazon are doing. the information is always being collected and what they are able to use to allow you to shop there or like google did sd for the rest of its search services. >> do they have the ability to actually listen to you? even when you're not talking to them? >> no. for most of these devices, you have some sort of activation word. once that happens things are recordft continuously recording. certainly there are hacker groups have demonstrated that all of these things can have vulnerabilities and there have been hacks in the past either on the server end or as a demonstration on a particular device. >> why is voice data so valuable to these companies? >> well, the voice data, first of all, is part of search. it's an extension of the reason why search and all of this information becomes important to learn about you. but it's also interesting because it's a single channel. if you