Our lives in the age of artificial intelligence

Sex - Or partners for anything else, for that matter. In bestowing dolls manufactured for sex with artificial intelligence, developers will draw a lot of new clients to what's already a growing market base. A life with someone obedient and continuously available without it being coercive is a very attractive proposition for some.

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MRI - In healthcare too, a lot is expected of AI. It could, for example, help us detect cancer with more precision than the human eye using MRI technology.

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Bills - Who would say no to a bit of help with all of their red tape and administration? Be it personal or business, artificial intelligence can potentially lend a huge hand in this field. For example, by paying your bills and/or taxes for you, after which you'd receive a notification.

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Smartphone - AI in smartphones would entail automated task completion, watertight user identification, recognition of emotions, understanding of the way we speak and, of course, augmented reality. Interested?

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Virtual reality - Expect the means by which we store our virtual information to become smaller and smaller. Cloud computing will become more and more common, and the physical world will become less and less useful.

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Immersion - If we view virtual reality as the immersion of the user into a software-generated artificial environment, we could eventually reach a point at which all of our realities overlap, yet never intersect.

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Speakers - Smart speakers will be able to read our emotions and choose what music to play based on those emotions.

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Health watch -

New versions of smartwatches, enhanced by AI, will help us make better decisions concerning our health based on criteria that we might find hard to measure accurately on our own, such as our heartbeat and blood pressure.

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Intelligent houses -

Thermostats equipped with artificial intelligence will be able to regulate room temperature based on the number of entities present and each of their habits.

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Factories - In factories, artificially intelligent robots could start to pop up more and more, performing ever more complex tasks.

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Cryptocurrencies -

The great advantage of cryptocurrency is that it decentralizes the flow of money. With a bit of AI thrown in the mix, centralized institutions like national banks might not ever hold any power over the world's monetary supply again!

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Artificial intelligence -

Currently, computers execute tasks based on commands and code. Artificial intelligence will aim to actually teach computers to think for themselves, using the human learning process as a model.

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Limits - Of course, the rise of artificial intelligence has also caused fierce debate. While the loss of employment is at the heart of many of those discussions, questions also extend into the moral realm.

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Choice -

A recent accident in which a self-driving car struck and killed a pedestrian has brought to the forefront serious ethical questions. For example, should self-driving cars sacrifice its passengers in order to not hit pedestrians, or should the safety of its passengers come first?

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Cold logic -

Some say AI would be able to act according to "cold logic" and just that. However, others say that this "logic" is still the fruit of human thought and therefore just as vulnerable to the pitfalls of human prejudice.

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Responsibility - It's been proven that humans have a tendency to consider machine-knowledge superior to their own. Implicit in this belief, however, seems to be the removal of personal responsibility, which is fundamental to our rights, our duties, and our freedoms as citizens.

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Deep learning - Deep learning is a machine-learning method for robots that's potentially infinite. However, some say it should have limits. The moment a robot learns everything from its (human) intermediaries, it will also be influenced by humanity's less admirable traits, they argue.

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Tay - The most cited example of something like this happening is, of course, Tay, Microsoft's very own AI chat bot that had to be taken offline after its Twitter account started tweeting inflammatory posts.

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Babies -

In what would be an ironic twist of life imitating art, our societies could at one point face the dilemma of having to choose between either creating, or destroying its artificial intelligence, as portrayed in films like 2017's 'Blade Runner: 2049.'

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Self-driving cars -

These autonomous vehicles will be able to travel with zero direct human intervention, potentially creating more need for travel and transport, but paradoxically less need for drivers.

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Glasses -

Google Glass was aborted in 2017, but in 2019 the company announced the Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2. With its smart glasses Google wants to help us make the right decisions and avoid risks.

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Dogs and cats - Remember Aibo, the robot dog invented by Sony? Let's just say his offspring could become popular among pet lovers, mainly those who don't much care for the downsides of owning one.

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Politics - And what to think of an artificial intelligence informing our politics?

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