Tasha The onward march of AI seems to be unstoppable at this point, as more tech giants seem to be committing more and more to the emerging tool, even as concerns continue around the topic of its impact in a variety of ways. However, much of the emphasis in coverage has been on the way that AI is changing the way that we do business. Use cases for AI in business are numerous at this point, with more and more starting to use it for content creation, customer service, and much more. But that doesn’t mean that AI has no application in daily life, as well. Here, we’ll take a look at the increasing role artificial intelligence is playing in how we interface with modern technology.
Getting From Place To Place
Perhaps the common use of AI nowadays is in how we navigate on our commute and manage the traffic we face on the way. Although it might not be as noticeable and when using something like a generative AI interface, apps like Google Maps use AI extensively to analyze things like traffic flow, road closures, as well as reported accidents, taking all of these factors into account to work out the quickest route from A to B. Behind the scenes, city planners are starting to use AI to manage traffic signals more efficiently, as well, so even if you’re not using a navigation app or device, AI is helping to keep the roads clear for you.
The Evolution Of Personal Assistants
Smart home hubs and smart home technology have done a lot to modernize how life in the home goes, with many hooking up everything from the lights, speakers, locks, cameras, and more to a central controlling hub. These power personal assistants have long acted as voice-activated search machines and personal assistants, as well as allowing people to activate and control appliances through voice alone. However, with the increasing integration of AI, not only do these devices respond to a number of set commands, but they’re able to understand natural speech, answer questions, schedule tasks, and even actively manage your calendar. While not quite as free and unrestricted in their use as many of the AI chat models, they are doing a lot to make the smart home experience much more natural
Automating The Home
Smart home devices allow you to remotely control a host of home appliances and functions, but now, many of them are also using AI to automate many of these features. Smart thermostats, for instance, are now able to analyze patterns in your daily routine, adjusting temperatures automatically to save energy while making sure the heating levels stay within your comfort zones. These automated AI-driven functions can be improved with more data from sensors and AI-enabled cameras, improving their accuracy and functionality and helping with everything from keeping the home comfortable to securing it and alerting you to potential threats.
How We Search On The Internet
The search engine has been one of the primary tools used to find what we need from the wide world of the internet. Whether you’re looking for factual information, instructions, businesses, or otherwise, it has long directed the majority of internet traffic. Now, it’s starting to evolve, integrating AI to make searches more precise and efficient, whether it’s Google’s own AI-powered snippets or fully featured AI search engines that are able to directly answer queries and requests for information with sources, rather than having to redirect the user to a relevant website. AI searches are now able to integrate real-time data, summaries, and even visuals, which can save a lot of time in helping users find the accurate information they need.
Maintaining A Healthier Life
AI can do a lot more than impact how we use the technology in our lives; it can go as far as influencing how effectively we’re taking care of ourselves, as well. Health wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers have become more and more popular, able to track your fitness levels and various other aspects of your health. However, now, by integrating advanced AI, they are able to identify patterns in your heart rate, sleep cycles, and even stress levels, to help design personalized fitness plans and specifically guided meditation programs. With the combination of continuous data collection, the longer you wear it, alongside intelligent analysis, AI-powered health wearables are empowering us to be more and more in control of our health.
How We Communicate
Whether for professional or personal use, many of us have long been using tools such as spellchecks and grammar-correcting apps to make sure that we’re communicating in emails, social media, and other online platforms correctly and concisely. However, AI might not only help ensure that your message is correct, but that it’s optimized to make sure that you’re matching your intent in sending the message and making it effective at having the effect that you want it to have. Many of the tools we already use ot improve our writing, such as Grammarly, are already evolving to use AI to be more precise and context-sensitive in the ways that they make suggestions on our typing.
The Ways We Learn
AI is also starting to evolve the education apps and tools we use, such as Duolingo and Coursera, which now contain features that can personalize lessons to your own pace and progress. Given that we learn in different ways, the ability for AI to analyze performance data, identify strengths, and tackle weaknesses means it provides a much more comprehensive and involving learning experience. Targeted practice sessions, feedback from virtual toasters, and adaptive quizzes can make sure that you’re able to be a lot more efficient in how you study. It may even be able to start helping in the classroom, by ensuring teachers are able to prepare the materials that best fit all of their students, rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach.
As time goes on, many of the user-side kinks of AI are getting ironed out, as the technology proves more and more practical.
