What is AI taking over next?

[GameChanger]

Thought this was worth its own thread.

What do you reckon?

[Plateau65]

Defininately the shopping basket. I think there needs to be an app which if you order online. works out all the ingredients and buys ones without what you are allergic too. eg i have to avoid Gluten. For others it might be peanut or garlic etc

[SpinState]

Garlic? love it.. garlic bread is the future as Peter Kaye once made famous.

[Ava_75]

Unless you are allergic to it. Its a pain having to look through 50 ingredients on packets these days

[codeberg]

I think AI will take over lottery.; decide who is the winner

[Thomas_69]

The lottery idea made me laugh. If AI starts choosing the winners then I'm expecting it to tell me my odds have been "optimised" to zero.

On a more serious note, AI seems far more likely to keep taking over repetitive office work than random chance. Anything involving sorting, summarising or scheduling feels like fair game.

[Harper48]

Wouldn't surprise me if AI ends up answering customer support chats almost everywhere. Half the time people already wonder whether they're talking to a person or a bot.

The trick will be making it easy to reach a real human when something unusual happens. That's still where people tend to beat automation.

[HiddenSeb75]

My prediction is email. Not writing every email, but filtering, summarising and replying to the boring ones before we even see them.

That sounds great until AI politely agrees to something you never intended. Then things could get interesting.

[Rory84]

Cooking recipes are getting the AI treatment already. Soon it'll suggest dinner based on three random ingredients left in the fridge and somehow make it sound gourmet.

Whether the end result is edible is another question entirely.

[Karen76]

Everyone talks about jobs, but calendars are probably next. AI seems determined to schedule every meeting, reminder and birthday without anyone lifting a finger.

If it can also find a free afternoon in my diary, it'll deserve an award.

[RusticRidge]

The lottery comment reminded me of those old sci-fi stories where computers controlled everything. Thankfully we're still a long way from that.

More likely we'll just keep seeing AI quietly appear inside tools people already use every day, often without them even noticing.

[AJStyles92]

Photo editing feels like one area where AI is already making a huge difference. Removing backgrounds, fixing lighting and cleaning up pictures now takes seconds instead of ages.

That leaves more time for taking the photo instead of staring at editing software.

[Reacher Quarry]

My guess is travel planning. Tell an AI where you want to go, your budget and what you enjoy, then let it build the itinerary.

The only danger is ending up with a schedule so efficient that there's no time left to actually relax.

[Vector]

Part of me thinks AI will eventually take over writing shopping lists because apparently mine always forgets something important.

Then again, if it keeps adding biscuits to the list, I won't be complaining.

[Steady Dylan]

AI is probably going to become everyone's unofficial tech support. Instead of searching forums, people will ask one question and get a tailored answer.

There will still be moments where the old forum threads save the day though. Someone always had the exact same weird problem ten years ago.

[NicholasCleverley]

Sports predictions are going to get even more AI-driven, but fans will still ignore them whenever their own team is playing.

That's half the fun anyway. If predictions were always right, football would get boring pretty quickly.

[RoughDaemon]

Looking at the pace of things, AI won't so much "take over" as quietly sneak into every app we already use. One update at a time, another feature appears and suddenly it feels normal.

The biggest surprise is often how quickly yesterday's futuristic feature becomes something nobody even thinks about anymore.