This Apple's daily companion sets alarms, checks the weather, sends messages, finds restaurants, and even cracks jokes for you.

A knowledge powerhouse, Google Assistant answers everything from weather updates to restaurant table availability. It also navigates traffic, plays music, and controls smart home devices, helping to adjust room lighting and temperature.

Alexa is the thoughtful little assistant introduced by Amazon; it has since become the top choice among home smart hubs. It can play music, adjust lighting, track packages, and even interact with your home’s smart appliances. You can easily control lights, air conditioning, TV and more. It is definitely an exemplary smart home assistant!

Many car models on the market now come equipped with semi-autonomous driving systems, with Tesla being the most famous example. If the car in front suddenly brakes, AI will react faster than you and apply the brakes for you. AI also helps with tasks like changing lanes, maintaining distance and parking. Even Toyota is developing smart driving systems, so passing a driving exam could potentially become a "retro skill" in the future.

Airplanes have had AI for even longer! Do you think the pilot is flying the plane the entire time? In fact, modern aircrafts’ autopilot systems are highly advanced. For example, Airbus and Boeing models have been using AI for quite some time. From takeoff to cruising and landing, AI is often more stable than manual control.

When you are searching for a series to watch on platforms such as Netflix, YouTube, or Disney+ during a meal, don’t think you’re choosing the shows—actually, they are choosing you. This is because AI’s algorithm knows your daily preferences better than you do, which is why you find shows you're interested in right on your homepage.

Planning to check Threads, IG, or FB at midnight, thinking you'll sleep in 10 minutes, but end up scrolling until dawn? It's not because your willpower is weak; it's just that AI is too good at recommendations. Every reel, every post on social platforms is a "customised entertainment package" curated by AI, using big data based on your likes, comments, and the time you spend on each post, keeping you hooked and scrolling endlessly.

Whether you're browsing Taobao, Amazon, or brand websites, as long as there’s AI, it can analyse your browsing history, search keywords, or even products you've only viewed but not purchased, to understand your personal taste and then relentlessly recommend related products.

Found a product you want to buy, but are unsure of which color to choose? Now AI can help by generating more colour options for you, from classic black and white to matcha green, smoky rose pink, "creamy oat grey", or even a colour you might have never even heard of. For example, Colormind can automatically generate color combinations that match the brand or product vibe based on the input colour style. Khroma uses machine learning to create personalised color combination recommendations based on your preferences. All you have to do is input something like, “I want a more vibrant colour palette,” and AI will immediately help you put together an entire rainbow wardrobe.

AI has learned to utilise vast meteorological data, satellite images and historical climate information to provide fast and accurate forecasts. If the weather station says, "It might rain today," you can still hold out hope for a possible sunny day, but if AI also says, "There will be a shower at 2:07 PM," you’d better be prepared and bring an umbrella when you go out.

The algorithms behind Google Maps, Waze, and Apple Maps that recommend the "fastest route" are powered by AI. They help you analyse road conditions, traffic flow, and where traffic accidents have occurred. It’s not just navigation; it’s like having a traffic commander help you avoid congestion.

What should you consider when buying a property? Location, price, transportation convenience, or even feng shui? AI can directly help you integrate transaction records, property price trends, regional development potential, nearby school network ratings, and even predict the best time to become a first-time home buyer. Just enter your requirements, and it might find a pile of options faster than a real estate agent.

In addition to capturing beautiful images of Earth, satellites now have AI working to process the high-quality data coming down from the skies, helping to analyse climate change, crop health, forest fire hotspots and more in different regions.

Most websites have a customer service chat window, which is actually an AI chatbot serving you. It works 24/7, answering basic queries from different customers and categorising them for human customer service representatives to address.

AI also provides smart assistants for the office, helping colleagues schedule meetings, notify of upcoming appointments and even take detailed notes during meetings, highlighting key points. It’s like a new-generation office secretary.

AI can also scan, read, categorise, and convert files. It can understand and organise even complex PDFs, spreadsheets and contracts. For example, ChatGPT/GPT-4 + File Upload can directly read the PDF or Word files, organise and summarise their key content. Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant can perform semantic searches, content summaries and intelligent Q&A operations on PDFs, making contract and report processing easier. Microsoft 365 Copilot can automatically generate reports, convert formats, and categorise data in Word and Excel, seamlessly integrating into daily workflows. The reports that used to take up 3 hours or more of your time to complete now can be done by AI in just 5 minutes, dramatically boosting your work efficiency.

AI also monitors data, usage behaviour, and error signals from mobile apps, websites, and backend systems 24/7. If anything seems off, it will immediately notify engineers to handle it, so you don’t have to worry.

This feature is most commonly found in factories, airports, or logistics systems. In simple terms, AI can predict “when a machine will malfunction.” In the past, maintenance would only happen after the machine broke down, but now AI gives early warnings, just like a doctor performing a health checkup on machines. It allows for early repairs and operational restoration, preventing production lines from suddenly halting, saving on repair costs and labour losses.