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Remember back just seven or eight years ago when everything was being put on the internet? They called it the "internet of things." Your security cameras, coffee maker, refrigerator, all of your appliances—maybe even things like your sprinkler system—were all on the internet, and you could control things using your phone through an app. Well, the new development for technology is putting all of those things on artificial intelligence. This article talks a lot about where that's going to go, and actually, it might even be more beneficial than putting things on the internet of things.

For example, baby monitors, snowblowers, mattresses, coffee makers, toothbrushes—what they talk about in this article is how this is going to help you. Instead of just being a one-way conversation with that device where you tell your coffee maker to turn on at 9:00, artificial intelligence can use connections to other items to tell when it should do something. By watching what days of the week you get up at a certain time, it can automatically start your coffee by keeping track of your usage of something and maybe telling you to order more products from Amazon or from the grocery store. This artificial intelligence cannot just take away tasks, but take away your attention span.

Here's the thing: A lot of people talk about time management and how things take up a certain amount of time—you don't have so much time in the day. Time really isn't the problem. The problem is being overwhelmed during the day. You could spend the same amount of time during the day doing things and feel refreshed at the end of the day if they were certain types of tasks. On other days, you spend the same 12 hours being awake and you're fried, you're burnt out, because what you had to do required a lot of attention. It's not the time associated with a project or task—it's the amount of attention, the amount of focus that needs to be applied. AI can now take some of the burden of that attention from you and put it onto an artificial intelligence agent.

Now, one of the things that's important is we're not to use AI to replace in-person conversations or interpersonal requirements where you want to talk to an actual human. No pun intended, look at the link. You want to get a more nuanced emotional approach or an opinion, right? AI really is not good at forming opinions. It's very good at reading data, interpreting facts and things that can be measured, but it doesn't really form opinions. So, use AI to take the burden off of you emotionally and take the burden off of you from putting your focus and attention on something—to kind of handle all the things behind the scenes—but still use actual human contact for the things that require more nuanced decision-making, reasoning, opinions, and logic.

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