AI here, there, anywhere

I wake up in the middle of the night. It’s cold.

“Hey, Google, what’s the temperature in Zone 2”, I say into the darkness. A disembodied voice responds: “The temperature in Zone 2 is 52 degrees.” “Set the heat to 68”, I say, and then I ask the gods of artificial intelligence to turn on the light.

Many of us already live with AI, an array of unseen algorithms that control our Internet-connected devices, from smartphones to security cameras and cars that heat the seats before you’ve even stepped out of the house on a frigid morning.

But, while we’ve seen the AI sun, we have yet to see it truly shine.

Source: Newspaper New York by Craig S. Smith