Whether we recognize it as AI or not, it is prevalent in our daily lives through voice assistants and smart home devices like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant. Smart homes and smartphones simplify people’s lives, Santi said. Thermostats learn to predict when residents are home or routinely away, and devices are given permission to listen to predict user preferences and estimate commute times.
But as AI becomes more ubiquitous, alarms have bee sounded about the future, about the good and bad, the benefits and fearfulness of a world it seems to control. Read the entire article at “AI at Work: Balancing Innovation and Challenges”.