AI used to be such a foreign concept to the layman. Something only big tech wizards and scientists knew about, the kind of technology that seems a little too far-fetched for the ordinary citizen. Isn’t it grand that today, we hold AI systems at the palm of our hands?
The phone you may be reading this article from has loads of AI systems. Those laptops students use to do their school work is run by tools with machine learning capabilities. Everywhere we are surrounded by AI, unknowingly and quietly making our lives a little easier.
Artificial intelligence in our daily lives
We interact with AI every day. Unbeknownst to us, we’ve gotten quite adept at it. Below are a few examples of AI in our everyday lives, what they track and how they affect us.
AI in the kitchen
From making meal plans to cooking meals, and even in your kitchen gadgets, AI has infiltrated our kitchens. And it’s a good thing.
Smart kitchens are now a real thing. There are AI powered refrigerators that help you keep track what you have inside, and how fresh they are. You can turn your smart oven on to handle various types of cooking. There is even an AI run wine dispenser that dispenses wine at just the right temperature.
Don’t know what to cook? There are online tools for that too. And the really nifty part is when you see a picture of food that you think you can cook, you can generate the recipe just from that one photo. There is a tool on Facebook where you input a photo of food and it automatically reverse-engineers the recipe for you.
Everything is much easier to manage in the kitchen when you have the right set of tools. AI tools, that is.
Fitness
Nowadays it is doubly important to stay healthy. It’s a good thing that there are a lot of fitness trackers around.
Fitness trackers follow a lot of things. They track your daily physical activities through your heart rate, respiratory rate, duration of activity. They even track your location, so they can measure the distance you’ve run and map out your usual routes for you. All the data collected by your fitness trackers will paint a picture of your current physical health. The data collected over time will help you track your improvements and setbacks, making it easier for you to modify your regimen to attain your fitness goals.
Speaking of fitness, a healthy body is created in the kitchen. There are online apps that help you keep track of the number of calories you intake every day. All you need to do is put in the food you eat, and the quantity and the app will automatically calculate your total calories for you throughout the day. This makes for easier tracking if you are on a diet or if you are just conscious about the number of calories you take in during the day.
Transportation
Feeling like you took a wrong turn on your way to your destination? No worries, most cars now have GPS trackers that tell you where you are and how to get to where you want to be from your current location. People really no longer need paper maps or compasses to get from point A to point B. Unless they want to for entertainment.
Apps like Waze and your car’s navigation system track your speed and location. Some of them even track the traffic on the streets to your destination. This helps you find the easiest and fastest routes.
And if you don’t have a car, AI helps you out when you book an Uber or a Lyft. Their systems look for the closest driver to you so you don’t have to wait long for your ride. It also tracks your route, the duration of your ride, and where they dropped you off. These make booking rides a little safer especially because you can share your location real time to your friends or family while you are in the car.
Conclusion
AI has been integrated so seamlessly into our lives. We’ve gotten used to the convenience it brings. With smart homes and better apps becoming more popular, the relationship between man and artificial intelligence looks to have a bright future.
