Secrets of Big Data

Irans top nuclear scientist is assassinated in a brazen daylight attack that may involve remote controlled weaponry assisted by artificial intelligence. On a quiet night in Arizona, a driverless car is out for a test drive when it fails to recognize a pedestrian in its path. At a famous auction house, a French portrait created by an algorithm goes up for sale, stoking controversy in the art world. In Japan, doctors turn to big data to diagnose a womans illness when attempted treatments prove ineffective.

The owner of Canadas largest cryptocurrency exchange dies under mysterious circumstances while on his honeymoon in India, leaving a trail of financial devastation behind. An American woman suffering from a series of painful medical issues is denied access to prescription medication because an algorithm flags her as high risk to abuse drugs. After suffering a stroke and disappearing from the public eye for several weeks, the president of Gabon appears in a video addressing the countrys citizens, but his appearance leads some people to believe that all is not as it seems to be. A humble Indian farmer is invited to participate in a program that uses artificial intelligence to improve crop yields.

A dominant Spanish badminton player uses technology in an effort to accomplish something that nobody in the sport has ever done before. An American man is wrongfully convicted of a crime based on an inaccurate lie detector test, but advances in AI may prevent this from happening in the future. As a joke, an Indonesian student offers his selfies for sale as non-fungible tokens on an internet marketplace and goes viral, earning him a small fortune in the process. An American speech pathologist teaches her dog to communicate by tapping programmed buttons, leading to a debate about whether or not artificial intelligence can be used to decode animal language.