ARE THE ROBOTS COMING?
It is mid-2030, and you arrive at work in a self-driving car. While you are getting on with the business of teaching young children, your AI assistant writes emails for you to approve and drafts your tax return. In your setting, children spend a portion of each day talking with and playing with smart toys, which can ‘hear’ and respond to them based on their interests and stage of development. You return home to find dinner prepped and your vacuuming done by a self-repairing service robot… If these predictions sound far-fetched, it’s worth noting all of these AI-based technologies are already here in some form.
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