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You may think you run your own life, but there's something out there running a lot of it for you.

Algorithms. Specifically learning algorithms. They're in your phone, your computer, your television,

every smart gadget you own, and they're shaping a lot of your daily life.

Amazon uses machine learning to recommend books, Netflix to recommend movies,

Google to decide what search results they return, Facebook for updates.

The stocks in your portfolio are probably traded by learning algorithms dating.

A third of all marriages today start on the internet,

and it's machine learning algorithms that select potential matches for you.

So there are children alive today who wouldn't have been born, if not for machine learning.

I'm Anne Strange, Amson.

Today, on to the best of our knowledge.

Machines that can program themselves are all around us,

and they get smarter every day.

And if they seem intelligent now, just wait.

Yeah, so here's one of the things that we're going to have in the future because of

the machine learning that we don't have today. Home robots.

We would all love to have robots that, you know, cook dinner for us and do the dishes and make the beds and whatnot.

You know, here's another one, curing cancer.

Why haven't we cured cancer yet?

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