His coming revolution Artificial intelligence this will cause a lot of upheaval, but one of them will be the reduction in the time we will have for daily household chores, including shopping at the supermarket. This conclusion was reached by the assessments of 65 artificial intelligence experts who took part in relevant studies in the UK and Japan and whose findings were published in the scientific journal Plos One. When asked what impact artificial intelligence will have on people’s daily lives, they replied that in ten years robot they will take on a key role in household chores.

However, according to a related Guardian report, one of them, Ekaterina Hertog, warned that a deeper intrusion of automation into people’s homes, useful as they are, would likely be worth the loss of some of their personal space. Ms Hertog, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Oxford, predicts that the use of robots will accelerate further progress towards gender equality. And this is because, even today, women mostly do housework, of course, for free. According to the British newspaper, in Britain women take on twice as much unpaid housework as men, while in Japan men take on less than a fifth of these household chores. According to experts, robots will not make it easier to equalize people in terms of the amount of free time, but, on the contrary, will exacerbate inequality. This is because only higher income households will have the financial ability to spend what it takes to add home robotic assistants to their equipment.

Expert estimates agree on the forecast that the time we spend shopping in the supermarket will be reduced by 60% thanks to robots.

As for what kind of work robots will be able to do, experts agree that the share of care for children and the elderly that will be entrusted to them will be very small. Adults will still help their children with reading, accompany them in their activities and take care of the elderly, and only 28% of these duties will be performed by automation. However, the time we spend shopping at the supermarket will quickly drop, by 60% in particular, as robots take over the task. The study in question is an exception to the usual studies of how robots will affect our lives in the future, since there is much more widespread research on the jobs that will disappear due to artificial intelligence, and how many jobs will be lost with them. So this is a nice aspect of the case.

However, as the Guardian points out, the prediction that “in a decade” robots will take over the housework is not new. Industry experts have been predicting and re-predicting this development for decades, since around the 1960s, but the vision of robots putting a bag of trash in a trash can and picking up leftovers from the floor is still pure science fiction. . Rather, it is something similar to unmanned vehicles, which experts have also been talking about for many years, but have not yet reached the point where they can adequately move in an unpredictable road environment.