"Help, I badly need an 'intelligent' digital organizer"

This is the scenario which takes place at work and at home.

Take a gander at my little notepad filled with my to-do-list and you may just find a line which reads “set a reminder to remind myself to....”

The thing is the act of pulling out my phone and typing a reminder always seem unlikely at the point in time when I am preoccupied with other tasks at hand.

Also, the fact that Siri is unable to get my message in its entirety (often misspelled), and that it is not yet a norm for me to belt out “Siri, remind me to clean up my desk” in the presence of others made me resolve to the traditional way of writing myself a personal memo.

So when the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg announced his new year challenge of building an artificial intelligence (A.I.) to run his home and to help him with work, I immediately imagined just how Zuckerberg’s residence would be when he finally cracks the code in customizing his personal digital assistant.

As Zuckerberg on his Facebook post puts it, “you can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man.”

I mean, how cool is that? A smart digital assistant which helps us to manage and organize monotonous tasks; and we get to free ourselves up to focus on the creative development of other things. Some may regard a future with A.I. as unthinkable.

I wouldn’t be surprised that there may be a fraction of the population rejecting the idea of fully embracing A.I. into our lives when the A.I. programs mature (as in when A.I. are able to think and arrive at decisions on its own).

The argument is simple: the more the A.I. resembles a human being, the reality that differentiates us and the machines will edge closer to becoming blurred.