Week 1 | Notion

When you hear the words "Artificial Intelligence", what are the first four things that come to your mind?

Automation - This is when technology takes over human labor and replaces it with a standardized and precisely trained machine, minimizing human intervention.
Chatbot - This simulates human conversation through text interactions. It is trained to understand every context that people provide and respond to commands in a personalized context.
Robot - This has been developing rapidly in recent years, especially the robots built to mimic human appearance and behavior, capable of walking, talking, and expressing basic human emotions for interaction.
Tracking system - This is the use of technologies to monitor and analyze the movement or behavior of people in real time, and it raises privacy issues because tracking often involves personal or location data, and inaccurate AI tracking like face recognition can sometimes lead to discrimination and bias.

Think about the devices and/or digital services you use daily. Write below a list of the top three that are present in your life.

Phone
Laptop
Headphones

Have these things ever surprised you by guessing something about you that you didn’t expect?

Yes, for example, I once talked about a TV drama with my friend, and later when I opened my phone, it appeared on my homepage as a recommendation. The banner said “content you might be interested in”, which made me wonder if media platforms were listening to my daily conversations.

Take a moment to see if you can identify what function AI plays in the following list.

| DEVICE OR DIGITAL

SERVICE WITH AI	Functions
Email inbox	Blocking out spams, automatic replies
Check depositing	helping banks process physical checks
Texting and mobile
keyboards	Auto correction for misspelling words, Voice to text transcription, Translation
Netflix	Customized recommendation, predicting user preferences
Google (search function)	Voice search, image search, showing top relevant results
Social media platforms
(Instagram, Facebook,
Twitter, etc)	Targeted advertising, Sensitive content protection, content recommendations
Automated message systems	Chatbots for customer service and help

What do we gain by having AI in our everyday lives?

For me, I’m more used to having AI in our daily lives, from the chatbot models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek to digital service with AI; it definitely made our lives more convenient. For example, AI tools help me quickly find information, generate ideas or breaking down thoughts, and auto-suggest email quick replies that can save a lot of time. Also for media platforms like Bilibili or Youtube, the personalized recommendation shows what I mostly spend time watching, that I don’t have to search everytime I open the software.

What do we lose by having AI in our daily lives?