This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 16th)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots Ellen Huet | Bloomberg "The company [X.ai] advertises Amy as an AI personal assistant who can 'magically schedule meetings'...But the system isn't yet ready to take the next step on its own. Multiple former AI trainers said that as recently as a few months ago, trainers looked over parts of almost all incoming e-mails--to evaluate what Amy guessed the user was saying--before Amy generated an auto response...Some people might...