ErikJonker

Law, rules, regulations, at EU but also at national level, can not deal with AI. First of all laws were never made for a world where machines take the majority of decisions and where they do it better then humans. Also by design it's often impossible to exactly explain how machines come to their decisions, "Machines will never be human. But in some cases, they will be better than human". Wired has described these problems in an excellent article . Politicians are not very eager to adress this. They don't have enough knowledge and are probably insecure about what course to take. But it's time to adress this issue now. For the sake of people.

The dominant company in search is further developing it's product it's famous for. In the beginning it was the possibility to search with keywords on the web. You would get the "best" results based on algorithms such as  Pagerank  among others. Also we would receive some advertising/commercial links with our query. But time has passed and what started as something relatively simple may be evolving into something we could call a digital assistant with "artificial intelligence". In human terms an entity I can talk with, ask questions in normal language, who knows what I like, who I have met, where I have been etcetera . Google is quite open that this is their goal. People like Kurzweil and others have been hired , companies with AI technology have been  acquired to accomplish this. If you observe Google you can see that they are getting there. With Google Now, improvements in Google Translate, added intelligence to Google Hangouts and so on. With normal sear...