Our Artificial Future

From autonomous grocery delivery to personalized news briefings, we’re already experiencing the advantages of artificial intelligence. But how will this technology work for us in the future? Jenna Blaha investigates.

- Jenna Blaha

You may already be familiar with some of the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) affects our lives, thanks to now-ubiquitous voice-controlled assistants, like Amazon’s Alexa, that can read you the news every morning. But did you know that our own brains operate in a strikingly similar way to AI? In December, the global technology company Huawei launched a study exploring the parallels between AI and the human brain and found that we are not aware of 99.74 percent of our daily decision-making. Conclusion: Just as human intelligence operates silently in the background to increase efficiency, so too does AI.