I enjoyed watching this. It seemed to be saying that the AI's could change their algorithm beyond what the original programmer could follow(!)
But Alice (Hello!) the vid makes a bunch of assumptions that are not founded in anything sensible. Its fun, but that's it - more art than anything else. I have seen lots of horror scenarios about folk in cafes all playing with their 'smart' phones and not talking. it could be that they are just bored by the people they are with - and they with them - but they all know they need somebody to be with. So why not be with people who share your boredom with them in a pleasant and unobtrusive manner?
I have watched dating shows and thought how dull the contestants were. Years ago, when you were bored with company you had to make polite and excruciating 'small talk'. Now you don't. Now you don't. Everybody can play Candy Crush (am I dating myself?) or have a bitch on FB about the boring company. Nothing has changed. Misery is just now tech mediated - and nobody has to pretend.
My 'phone' is with me all the time. Its not just my phone. Its my notebook, diary, dictionary, camera, search engine, email provider, address book, train timetable etc etc etc.
I am going to sound appallingly arrogant here. The 'smart phone' is a staggering piece of technology that, outside of making phone calls, sending texts, or taking selfies is predominantly used play games or update on social media is a means of connecting with the deepest wisdom, the greatest ideas and the finest music humanity has produced. That's 24/7/365.
I do not think that people are inherently dull or boring. But that they make themselves so through dulled imaginations and subjugation to the idiocy of popular culture. That's a personal act of abdication. Let's not blame technology for it. We may imagine that in the absence of the smart phone these folk would engage in sparkling conversation, but no. They'd be talking crap, bitching and gossiping more likely.
The GIGO rule applies here, as North observed. You put in a garbage attitude and you will get out garbage content. What drove the spread of the early VCRs was porn and sport. The early telephone probably spread quickly because it met basic needs rather than an enabler of lofty conversations over distance. If we had a close look we might find that tech spreads and grows because it meets basic needs, and only later loftier uses are engaged. An exception may be the printing press because monks didn't labour for years creating illuminated porn volumes. Unlike the VCR the first books were probably noble in intent and content.
I think we misunderstand tech these days. It grows up dirty because the marketplace is mostly vulgar. So we see vulgar uses more than we see noble ones. We see boring and bored people comfortably enjoying the company of peers and we criticise them for openly doing what we often privately want to do.
When I was commuting regularly I saw people getting on the train and settling down to an almost desperate need to get lost in some game. I was listening to an audiobook. But they were grabbing that brief interlude to escape from god knows what kind of existential crap. Their 'smart phone' was their salvation for that short commute. Maybe it was what kept them hanging in as a parent or partner or employee? And when they needed it it also connected them to real people.