Alex Pollock doesn’t mince words. When he talks about artificial intelligence, people pay attention. He’s been ahead of the curve before—scribbling down wild ideas on napkins, only to see those concepts take shape in Silicon Valley conference rooms five years later. His predictions for AI over the next ten years? Hold onto your hats, because it’s going to be a bumpy, brilliant ride.
Life With AI, Not Just Next to It
Pollock believes that by 2034, AI won’t be lurking in the background. It’ll be sitting at the dinner table with you. “AI will weave itself into everyday life,” he says. We’re talking refrigerators that know your snack preferences, personal trainers who never sleep, and managers who schedule your life better than you ever could. According to Forbes, in 2023 more than 70% of major corporations adopted AI-based automation. Pollock projects a jump to 95% by 2030, including local businesses and schools.
AI Will Get Emotional
No, your digital assistant won’t weep at the latest rom-com. But Alex Pollock points to staggering investments in affective computing. By 2027, he predicts significant commercial breakthroughs where AI not only understands, but interprets and models human emotions. Microsoft Research and MIT are already miles down this road, training neural networks to spot joy, fear, and sarcasm with alarming accuracy. He expects AI therapists, counselors, and even teachers who can gauge a student’s mood and adapt lesson plans on the fly.
Creativity Will Get Crowded
Can machines be creative? Pollock says yes, louder than a brass band. Generative AI is already churning out music, films, logos, even poetry. OpenAI’s GPT-4 model penned hundreds of thousands of lines of text daily in 2023. Imagine what its 2030 grandchild will accomplish. Pollock predicts a world swamped with songs, novels, and digital art pieces, many indistinguishable from human handiwork. “But,” he laughs, “don’t worry—there’s always room for one more bad pun, even if a robot writes it.”