Three Ways Google Predicts Your Smartphone Will Change The Future Of Work

When people imagine machine learning, they tend to think about talking cars or humanoid robots--the stuff of sci-fi fantasy, or else dystopian fiction. But machine learning is neither, and it's already changing what computers can do. In the near future anyway, it's going to transform the way we work--starting with that smartphone in your pocket. Programs that can learn how to accomplish tasks are already at play in the workplace, where they're taking on an ever greater share of our most energy-sapping, mundane chores so we humans have more time for the important stuff. That's nowhere more evident that on mobile, where our smartphones are transforming into personal assistants.