Siri, please don't take my job: Artificial intelligence in the office

In the future, instead of asking Siri questions such as "What will the weather be like today?" you could ask it something like: "What kind of insurance is worthwhile for me?"

Virtual assistants such as Siri and Alexa are great for answering questions – as long as you keep them simple. While much work has gone into artificial intelligence (AI) in areas such as speech recognition, the technology still has quite a long way to go. 

However, someday, these virtual assistants may completely alter the workplace – especially if the AIs manage to teach themselves, what experts call "machine learning." This is the process in which AIs take huge masses of data and then analyse and learn from them.