...companies are focused on creating a digital entity that can understand what we need and provide it quickly and efficiently, with the ability to learn our individual habits and cater to our individual needs
...And that killer application, the one we never realized we couldn't live without, may not yet have been identified.
...If these obstacles can be overcome, AI will not just be about ordering pizza or getting an Uber to the airport. You will be able to have it set up a dinner with, say, two former colleagues at a restaurant you've all been talking about going to for years — and then gets you there, on time, with a strategic book recommendation for one of your dinner mates.
...many of us will hold tight to the tasks that we think of as essentially human. But all signs point to the next generation as having the trust in technology, the appetite for automation and the comfort with sharing personal details to be eager consumers of this type of service.
...it's no longer a matter of if, but when.
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