If you’re of a certain age – Hello, Boomer! – artificial intelligence may call to mind a malignant AI antagonist from 2001: A Space Odyssey named HAL 9000 that refuses to open the pod bay doors for astronaut Dave. And while it’s possible that some of the technology being introduced five-plus decades after that landmark 1968 Kubrick film can cause harm to society, many in the kitchen and bath industry are discovering there’s also tremendous capacity for AI to produce very positive outcomes.
