Case: Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are already involved in every aspect of our lives – they keep our inboxes free of spam, they help us make our web transactions, they fly our planes and, if Google gets its way, they will also soon be driving our cars for us.
The Internet of Things have made it very easy to ask Alexa or Siri or Google to turn on the lights in our houses, or our washing machines or sooth us by playing our favourite music, among other things.
To quote Neil Jacobstein, head of AI at Singularity University, “AI’s are embedded in the fabric of our everyday lives. They are used in medicine, in law, in design and throughout the automotive industry.” And each day the algorithms that power away, making decisions behind the scenes, are getting smarter and are not affected by Covid-19.
This means that one of the biggest quests of the modern world – the search to make machines as intelligent as humans – could be getting tantalizingly closer. Jacobstein predicts that artificial intelligence will overtake human intelligence in the mid-2020s, begging the question:
What will the future look like in a world dominated by robots, algorithms, machine intelligence, the Internet of Things and a myriad of new and emerging technologies? What will the role of humans be in such a society?
