Facial recognition seems like the stuff of science fiction. Technology that’s capable of identifying a human face from a photograph or video and matching it from among hundreds of millions of other faces stored in a database of faces—if that doesn’t sound futuristic, we don’t know what does.

For years, artificial intelligence technology has been improving and spreading at astronomical rates — and 2021 won’t be an exception. Last year, as so much more of the world moved online in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, AI made great strides to keep up. According to tech publications and other online resources, there are a few AI trends we can expect to see more of this year. We’ve put together a list to help explain how these trends and other key AI advancements will impact our lives in 2021.