Artificial intelligence could impact half of jobs in NYS

TroyWhen a class in Mandarin Chinese starts this summer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, students will be practicing their spoken dialogues with a different sort of teaching assistant — an artificial intelligence chatbot.Conversing with students in simulated settings including a restaurant, a garden, or a Tai Chi class, thebot is part of a future where artificial intelligence (AI) will perform more of the tasks, and potentially the jobs, now done by humans.Part of a so-called "situatio