Artificial intelligence is making its way into the home, and it's not just for the super-rich anymore. You probably have a little bit of AI in your home already, hiding in some of your smart gadgets.
We have only seen a fraction of what AI can do in our daily lives, and that is going to change in the coming years. Over the next decade, we expect to see greater AI integration in the home and a lot more practical functionality from this advanced programming that will make our lives easier. Let’s look at how AI may change our lives in the coming years.
Cooking
You might not expect to find artificial intelligence in the kitchen but get ready for it. Programming may quickly become your new very reliable kitchen assistant. Wouldn't it be helpful to have a program that can automatically adjust temperatures as you cook or recommend ingredients when you are preparing food?
Some of your appliances may already have artificial intelligence integrated into them to assist in various tasks in the kitchen. That's only going to become more prevalent in the coming years.
As AI technology improves, we can expect computer programming to generate recipes on the fly, suggest changes to the way we prepare food, correct mistakes in our baking, and provide sanitation services to keep the kitchen clean and safe. If some of this seems farfetched, imagine how much like science fiction the current crop of AI-powered kitchen gadgets are.
Who would have thought that we would have devices in our kitchen this year that guide us through baking a cake with step-by-step instructions? We are already there, and yet we have so much further to go as artificial intelligence begins to demonstrate its true potential.
Work from Home
More people are working from home than there were five years ago, and a lot of that is due to the push toward at-home work that occurred during the Covid pandemic. So, the work-from-home market has grown considerably, and that means there is a need for programs that help people work better and more efficiently in this manner.
We now have artificial intelligence programs that can create artistic images, books, and even short videos. These are often very convincing computer generated pieces of content. In many instances, you wouldn't even be able to tell that they were made by computers.
AI is likely to change our at-home work habits very quickly, with more of our content produced by computers than ever before. Small business owners and self-employed workers will likely rely on artificial intelligence to do many different kinds of tasks for them so that they can earn more money, get more work done, and reach more clients.
The lines between human-generated content and computer-generated content will continue to blur, especially in the at-home work industries where individuals are trying to compete with larger companies.
House Cleaning
We already have something very close to artificial intelligence at work in automated cleaning tools in the house. If you look at your Roomba and your other cleaning robots, you'll see that they have learning programs built in. They create maps of your home and learn where the walls and other obstacles are. They can update these maps as necessary, and that ability to learn and improve helps them to be very effective at what they do.
They might not be able to clean as well as the real thing, and you may prefer professional human cleaners over robots for the deep cleaning tasks that need to be done. However, there's no denying that these smart cleaning systems are getting better. They are adaptive, and they can handle problems much better than they could five or ten years ago.
In the near future, house cleaning will be even more automated. There will be more and more kinds of smart cleaning systems, and many of them will likely run on AI programming. This will allow them to be even more adaptive, doing more of the tasks for us so that we don't have to do them. In the most modern and sophisticated homes, there will likely be little need for human cleaners.
Child Care
Yes, artificial intelligence will even help you raise your children. While many parents may be staunchly against this notion at first, once they start to see how helpful AI can be, they may welcome it into their home to care for their children.
There are programs being developed right now that will identify problems with your children and alert you when necessary. If your child is having an emergency, wouldn’t you want to know? AI can do a much better job of assessing what is wrong and making the call for help compared to a simple baby monitor. AI may even be able to tell if your child is experiencing developmental problems, and it could let you know that you might want to take your child to the doctor for a checkup.
This programming will handle some of the parental duties in the coming years, like adjusting the lighting when your baby falls asleep and controlling the temperature so that your kid is comfortable all night long. You may have to decide if that is a step too far and a little frightening or just a great help so that there isn’t as much for you to do.
All of these inventions are meant to make life easier on you. They will likely have their hurdles that need to be overcome, but as the years go by, you may wonder how you ever lived without them. They could make life safer for you, keep you feeling more comfortable, and give you more time for important things that you really want to do. Isn’t that the purpose of technology, after all?
It may already feel like the future is now, but there are some amazing advances yet to come in the area of artificial intelligence.
