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In the first episode of The Spinoff’s new podcast, Actually Interesting, Russell Brown explores the world of A.I. and the way it’s already affecting our lives.When you hear the words "Artificial Intelligence" your mind might turn to science fiction – a vast army of robots with aspirations to rule over us – but we already experience AI in our lives every day. When Netflix recommends something we might like, Facebook recognises us in a picture or Spotify builds us a playlist, that's AI at work.In the first episode of Actually Interesting, brought to you by Microsoft, I talk to AUT's Mahsa Mohaghegh and Microsoft big data and AI expert Chimene Bonhomme about what AI, algorithms and machine learning actually are – and what they imply for our future.We also talk about the way that AI works is a product of the assumptions – conscious or unconscious – of the people who design the rules. (That's what algorithms are: sets of rules.) And the problems that can create when humans are teaching machines about the world. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy