The cofounder of Google’s AI division DeepMind says everybody will have their own AI-powered ‘chief of staff’ over the next five years::Mustafa Suleyman said AI will “intimately know your personal information” and be able to serve you 24-7.
Not if it’s spying on me for google I won’t
Right. It’s not our AI. It’s Google’s AI. It doesn’t work for us anymore than Facebook does.
There to spy and sell you shit. It’s not your friend but a high tech used car dealer.
It does make me wonder how far could we push self-hosted models. Speech to text by itself is already doable faster than real-time with a 1070 using OpenAI’s whisper model. Maybe in 10 years from now it will be trivial to have a self-hosted AI personal assistant? It doesn’t need to do absolutely everything right or blazingly fast to be useful enough for day-to-day house and work assistance.
Mycroft is the best open source personal assistant I’m aware of at the moment
And will it run locally away from all the tracking and ads? Thats what I thought.
I wouldn’t mind a AI buddy to help me with programming stuff
Phind.com is my coding buddy.
TL;DR We will know what you like and tell you what you want
Oh yes. My last assistant from Amazon was super helpful.
But why? What do I need an AI for in my personal life?
Aside from Google selling you ads,…
a private personal ai could function to help you maintain your goals. It could keep you on time, schedule appointments and orders, monitor your sleep and diet and exercise, monitor your stress and health, ensure folks remember to take their medications, coach you on focus, help build and maintain project plans, etc.
The “second brain” concept isn’t new, and is somewhat related. AI could help leverage your personal content into triggered actions to improve your day.
If a truly private ai assistant existed, and you could train it on the operational parameters that matter to you, it could help a lot of people. Especially those who are too too busy in life, or have memory or executive function issues.
If course you could do this now, with manually written events and alarms/reminders, but by establishing an “actor” to ride along with you and help create and report stuff you care about, you can help people with things they’d otherwise miss.
I personally believe private, open sourced solutions are realistic in the nearish future, but most will sign up for some sort of Google suppositor-ai
So google can sell ads targeted at you.
That would be great if it happens. Lets hope we get a class of helpers or butlers that do not phone home, but build on top of open models and protocols