Search Search Google Calendar ‘Goals’ update uses artificial intelligence to make its users into better people The tool aims to make it easier for people to improve themselves, by scheduling ‘reading more books, learning a new language, or working out more regularly’, as well as any other regular activity 6169789578 Click to follow The Independent Tech Google has introduced a new tool to its Calendar, intended on making its users into better people. The new tool, called Goals, uses artificial intelligence to help people schedule in time to fulfil their aspirations – including learning new languages and doing exercise. The feature looks through people’s calendar, finds times when they might be free, and then adds in time for them to do the things that they might not otherwise get to. -- At this biennial event, the participating companies exhibit their latest service robotic technologies and components Getty The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight Getty Government and industry are working together on a robot-like autopilot system that could eliminate the need for a second human pilot in the cockpit AP Aurora Flight Sciences' technicians work on an Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automantion System (ALIAS) device in the firm's Centaur aircraft at Manassas Airport in Manassas, Va. AP Stefan Schwart and Udo Klingenberg preparing a self-built flight simulator to land at Hong Kong airport, from Rostock, Germany EPA Once they are scheduled in, Google’s algorithms can use their artificial intelligence to ensure that people are still able to make them. If something comes up and gets in the way of time that had been previously scheduled for meeting a goal, for instance, the app will automatically reschedule the event to another time when its user is free.