Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our everyday lives from voice assistants on our smartphones to personalised content recommendations on streaming platforms and AI is quietly working behind the scenes to make our daily experiences smoother, smarter, and more enjoyable. As year 2024 is acknowledged as the first year of the application of generative AI and Taiwan has been widely renowned for her significant role related to the development of AI, there are constant discussions about how AI affects our lives and how it may shape our future. Please write a well-constructed essay to illustrate how AI influences our daily lives and discuss the benefits and drawbacks that AI brings to us through a comparative manner between our lives in the past and present. The number of words should be between 500 to 800. (100%)