From self-aware robots to space exploration, people have been fixated on how AI can be applied to change the course of humanity. Bringing it back to earth is IBM's latest spot, which highlights how useful its AI can be in the present, while encouraging people to look into the not-too-distant future.

AI’s foray into white-collar pattern-spotting professions like investment banking, retail buying, and even cancer diagnosis could challenge the security of many white-collar jobs. Despite the bright future for automation, people still would still rather trust a human, even if they’re wrong.

Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, yet business decision-makers see it as pivotal to success, with 900,000 companies expected to be using some form of the technology by 2022. How exactly are firms adopting these tools? And how can AI help them meet the needs of their customers?

Voice recognition tech is becoming increasingly advanced, leading more people to use it in their everyday lives; the virtual assistant market is set to be worth $3.07 billion by 2020, and Amazon expects to sell ten million Echo devices in 2017 alone. But do people really want to chat to their devices?