Aussie futurist: Personal AI will be a reality in five years

Artificial intelligence (AI) will mediate with brands on behalf of consumers, and people will form personal relationships with AI. "I think within the next five years, we're going to have'personal AI' that live with us, and understand us, and make decisions for us - and interact on our behalf with brands," said Australian futurist, Liesl Yearsley, CEO and founder of Akin.com, a US-based company that aims to humanise AI. It's all part of a future where consumers have more "personal AI" experiences to help them in their daily lives, Yearsley told a CeBIT crowd as she details how artificial intelligence is impacting society, enterprise and individuals. "AI will solve more and more complex problems. We will form relationships with them. And we will hand over decisions and, theoretically, we may start to merge with them," she predicted.