Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a real and growing part of our lives. <\/p>\n
From voice-controlled assistants to online ordering to self driving cars in development, AI is the brains behind computer software. As it improves computers, making them faster and smarter, is this technology a threat? <\/p>\n
\"I wouldn't see it as a threat, necessarily,\" Recode reporter April Glaser told CNBC's \"On the Money\" in an interview. laser covers robots, drones and other smart machines for the technology news website. <\/p>\n
\"But artificial intelligence programs do know more than you or I do, particularly when it comes to specific areas.\" <\/p>\n
One example is in medicine, where AI technology is helping doctors recognize cancerous tumors. <\/p>\n
\"If something has artificial intelligence in it that means it has software in it that allows the computer program to do something on its own without a human pressing a button the entire time.\" <\/p>\n
Glaser said using AI, companies are \"able to anticipate behavior by drawing on your past behavior. They require a tremendous amount of data that they process, these software algorithms, in order to determine what you might want next.\" <\/p>\n
She added that \"there are all sorts of ways these predictive algorithms can and have already creeped into our lives.\" <\/p>\n
While shopping on Amazon, the site might suggest you may want a flashlight to go with that tent you've bought. On Netflix, it knows what movies you might enjoy. <\/p>\n
\"So if you typically go for romantic comedies, then it's going to suggest romantic comedy next based on your behavior,\" she told CNBC. <\/p>\n
Computers continue to improve because, Glaser said, \"they are getting smarter because the more data that you feed it the more refined the results will become.\" <\/p>\n
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