Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030

And see also this great piece from Mashable on what manufacturers are up to next. In the near future, sensing algorithms will achieve super-human performance for capabilities required for driving. Automated perception, including vision, is already near or at human-performance level for well-defined tasks such as recognition and tracking. Advances in perception will be followed by algorithmic improvements in higher level reasoning capabilities such as planning. Beyond self-driving cars, we'll have a variety of autonomous vehicles including robots and drones. AI also has the potential to transform city transportation planning, but is being held back by a lack of standardisation in the sensing infrastructure and AI techniques used. Accurate predictive models of individuals' movements, their preferences, and their goals are likely to emerge with the greater availability of data. That last sentence is worth reflecting on for a while. It does indeed seem highly likely to happen, but that doesn't mean we have to like what it might mean for society.