Delegating tasks to your online self

The boundaries will blur even more, the futurists say, once the online version of you is able to operate independently, a kind of digital alter ego to whom you can delegate tasks.

“I think it’s inevitable that pretty soon we will each be represented in the digital sphere by an avatar,” says Sophie Hackford, futurist researcher based in the UK. “Your avatar will check when your parking permit needs updating. It will compare available prices on everything you want to buy. It will sit in the hold queue on the phone to buy a train ticket. It will do all the things that technology does better than you can and allow you more time for being human.”

What is an AI algorithm?

It is a set of rules or instructions given to an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program, neural network, or other machine to help it learn on its own. The more well-constructed these instructions are, the more intelligent is the program’s ability to get it right.