7.00am
You wake up and glance at your iPhone, which unlocks itself using facial recognition
Apple’s Face ID converts your face to a set of numbers that act as your own unique identifier. This biometric portrait is not set in stone – it uses AI to track changes in your appearance, updating its model if you grow a beard, change your makeup style or get older, and it also detects whether your eyes are open and your attention is directed to your phone. Many of the iPhone’s core functions are AI-enhanced. The photo app can blur backgrounds and artificially alter lighting to create the illusion of a studio photoshoot, and uses computer vision to recognise people and objects and categorise images into themes and locations. Siri uses natural language processing and machine learning to interpret your voice requests. Apple Maps predicts traffic patterns to give the quickest or quietest route, or the one with the least uphill. When you message a friend, an algorithm is also ingesting your words to pick up your writing style to power predictive text suggestions – including relevant emojis.
