Our entire lives, both inside and outside work, are dictated by the decisions that we make. In the main, we're hardwired to subconsciously learn from our mistakes, to avoid bad decisions and to question how we'd improve our decision-making if faced with similar scenarios in the future. AI (artificial intelligence) brains are, by and large, programmed the same way as a human brain. Advanced AI and deep learning are built to learn from human decisions, ask the same questions and reinforce the same principles. And the more seamlessly human that AI becomes, the more we can connect and relate to this incredible technology and the more we can trust it to sharpen and improve our decision-making and, ultimately, our lives.

In the future, you probably won't use your keyboard to get to this website. So predicts of one of the internet's top oracles, Mary Meeker, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. On Wednesday Meeker, a long time investor and financial analyst, unveiled her annual predictions of the technology industry's future at a conference in southern California. The two big takeaways: people will do more talking to their computers and less typing on them. Oh – and the technology sector's days of easy, red-hot growth may be behind it because an increasing percentage of the Earth's population already owns a smartphone.