Chatbots are anticipated to power 85% of all customer service interactions by year-end (2020) — already, 42% of consumers use th

A drug molecule "invented" by artificial intelligence (AI) will be used in human trials in a world first for machine learning in medicine.It was created by British start-up Exscientia and Japanese pharmaceutical firm Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma.The drug will be used to treat patients who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).Typically, drug development takes about five years to get to trial, but the AI drug took just 12 months.Exscienta chief executive Prof Andrew Hopkins described it as a "key milestone in drug discovery".

With increasing privacy legislation globally, lots of websites and apps taking the proactive (and regulatory required) step to publish their privacy policy. For the cyber and privacy conscious do you ever wonder what the app's privacy policy really means? One such innovator - Guard, harnesses the power of AI to analyse reams of text, breaking down each sentence for the level of risk it represents to privacy. Its not perfect and has some limitations & data sharing requirements, but its a start!https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/27/20883458/ai-digital-privacy-policy-guard Image by succo from Pixabay

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Facebook has released a new privacy feature called Off-Facebook Activity. The tool lets you see and control data that apps and websites share with Facebook.Click Settings at the top right of Facebook on your personal page. Click Your Facebook Information at the left column then Off- Facebook Activity to review. With the new privacy feature, you can clear the history of apps and websites that have shared your data. Facebook knows the articles users read online and can learn a lot about you from this data. They also know every time you open a site with the Facebook app.