AI’s real potential: Orchestrating the technology around us

The useful part

Many of America's defining innovations have been things you could point to: the telephone, television, personal computer, and smartphone. Each expanded what people could do by putting a powerful new capability in their hands. Just as the internet and mobile connectivity added a layer of intelligence by linking those devices together, artificial intelligence is evolving in a similar way.

How it works

• You might check a wearable to see how you slept, use a calendar app to organize your day, and rely on connected devices to adjust the temperature or notify you that a package has arrived.
• Artificial intelligence is following a different pattern.
• The opportunity ahead is to make the technology around us more responsive, connected, and useful as a whole.
• FROM SMART PRODUCTS TO SMART SYSTEMS A typical morning already involves several connected technologies.
• People move between devices, applications, and services, re-entering information and managing settings that rarely travel with them.

What to take from it

AI can help bridge those gaps by bringing relevant information into view at the right moment, reducing the small tasks and decisions that consume attention throughout the day.

Details worth keeping

We're already seeing the beginnings of this shift acr...