Brain gain: how AI is helping us work and live better

Artificial intelligence is big news at the moment, with pretty much every company claiming that its latest product is powered by AI. Some of these products are genuinely useful, while others are fairly ludicrous (we're looking at you AI toaster), but we're undoubtedly heading into a world where our lives are increasingly augmented by some kind of digital assistance. And while that prospect might be an unsettling one, especially for those worried that their job might be at risk from the rise of automation, there are some major benefits to augmenting our own brain power by embracing a little artificial intelligence. Here we're going to look at the artificially intelligent technologies that we're already using to make our lives easier, and taking a look forward to where we might end up as machines keep getting more intelligent. One of the easiest examples for most people to understand as an AI is your digital assistant.