EghtesadOnline: Elon Musk is the most-famous Cassandra of artificial intelligence. The Tesla Inc. chief routinely drums up the technology’s risks in public and on Twitter, where he recently called the global race to develop AI the "most likely cause" of a third world war.

EghtesadOnline: An advertiser boycott of YouTube is testing a critical and much-hyped part of Google's future: its prowess in artificial intelligence. Some experts in the field say the technology isn't up to scratch yet, but that if any company can solve the problem at hand, it's the online search giant.