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.
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“Morning sir, I made an appointment with the dentist for you at 2.30. I also thought you might like to know about these penis growth pills and an investment in gold bullion I can recommend “
And will it run locally away from all the tracking and ads? Thats what I thought.
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
TL;DR We will know what you like and tell you what you want
I do wonder why Cortana, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are lagging so behind these LLMs. I personally don’t use them with any frequency other than setting timers, but it’s annoying to even consider using them and then realizing they are not as nearly as usable or helpful as ChatGPT.
The big thing that’s holding Apple back regarding Siri is that they aim to have all their AI-driven functions processed on the user’s hardware, for security/privacy. So they not only need the software component, they want to have the hardware capable of running it inside the individual phones.
eh… sounds like privacy theater to me. Only the audio transcription may be processed on the device.
In all cases, transcripts of your interactions will be sent to Apple to process your requests
They might aim to have a full blown LLM on the device, but it’ll never be as good as the others with these limitations.
Many teams are currently working on striking the right balance of fine tuning and model size. Most aren’t considering phones yet, but PCs off network.
It is entirely possible to have an LLM run “closed loop”, but obviously Google and Apple want in that loop
For “impressive” general reasoning and conversation these LLM currently require pretty beefy hardware. You’re either lugging a GPU around or calling to an API.
Aren’t these current personal assistants already relying on API calls for their responses?
Like siri? Yes, my point pertained to hardware needed for LLM specifically though
I know Apple’s developing their own LLM which will hopefully be used in Siri. There’s no guarantee, but I can’t think it would be too hard to add Bard into Google Assistant. Cortana on the other hand was canceled by Microsoft and is being replaced by Bing chat. I believe Amazon is also stopping the Alexa development
They’re working on it, but it takes time. Especially making it reliable.
The current crop of llm’s will happily answer or do nonsense or even dangerous things.
Chief of staff ? …or employee’s overlord ?
Kind of hard not to have an AI soon. Being the latest fad, even freaking toasters will have them soon, a’la IoT.
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
My ADHD would love that. I forget shit all the time and for “hard” things like remembering to practice my guitar every day, an intelligent assistant to nag me would be helpful.
Ah, a cyber mum!
I’m a grown-up and I can doall that shit by myself. I’ll pass, thanks.
You’re saying people with ADHD and similar aren’t “grown up”?
Once you get that ADHD, you simply stop aging. It’s the true path to immortality.
No, but they do have pen and paper.
I didn’t describe a note pad ya goof
So google can sell ads targeted at you.
To keep your spirits up after you get displaced by a different AI.
“The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.”
This dude is going to look real foolish in five years (if not already).
Lmao what a load of horseshit
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
This sentiment in the current climate is stupid, but I do think the concept is inevitable. We didn’t always have phones on us 24/7, phones are already somewhat powered by AI. So what will everyone having their own AI look like in a way that doesn’t just sound like a chatGPT joke? What would make it a desirable future?
So what will everyone having their own AI look like in a way that doesn’t just sound like a chatGPT joke? What would make it a desirable future?
I guess that depends on how much authority you’d want to delegate.
For me, it would be nice if I could have it do things like shopping tasks without being more of a pain than doing the task myself. For example, I needed to buy a hot-water carpet cleaner today. It would be great if I could tell it
Hey Staffie, buy a carpet shampoo machine for home delivery within the next two weeks. Pick a highly rated machine from a widely recognized brand, and focus on carpet cleaning and water extraction performance, I don’t need any upholstery cleaning features. Don’t spend over $400. If the best option is under $200 don’t ask, just buy it. If it’s over $200, show me the top two options before buying.
And end up with something pretty close to what I’d have picked if I did the shopping myself.
It would also be great if I could have it reliably perform arbitrary tasks that it isn’t specifically programmed to do. Like
Hey Staffie, check if I’ve got enough PTO to take next Thursday and Friday off, and if so, reserve a campsite for me at Foo State Park for three nights, preferably one close to the water, then send Mr. Boss an email letting him know I’ll be out those days.
If it were particularly smart it would infer from previous conversations that I might want a 1lb propane cylinder, marshmallows, graham crackers, and Hershey bars added to my grocery list and would add them automatically (because it already knows my preferences about small automatic expenditures like that and is aware of the spending limits I’ve given it).
Then it might come back a few minutes later and say
'Hey boss, all the campsites within 250 of the water are already reserved, but site 1701D, which is near the only restroom and a tailhead, is available. Reviewers report that the park WiFi access point is installed at the restroom, so that site has good free internet service. Shall I reserve it?
So yeah, in general, the ability to take arbitrary directions and execute them in reasonably intelligent ways (for example If I ask for a site Foo State Park, and there are two such parks in my country, it should be able to guess which park I’m talking about based on the context (like, if I’m reserving 3 nights and one of the parks is an hour down the road and the other is a two day drive, just assume the closer one)) and not require pre-programmed interfaces to every single thing. It should be able to search the web, find the interfaces humans use, and use those to do the kinds of things humans can do. It should also have some capabilities to use my accounts and passwords under a delegated authority to get shit done as my authorized assistant.
Ideally it should also do things like observe my choices and infer my preferences so it can constrain choices it offers me:
Hey Staffie, order lunch from Subway for pickup at 3.
Sure boss, do you want your usual 6 inch turkey sub?
Yep
Nacho cheese chips or salt-n-vinegar?
Nacho.
Done, I’ll let you know when it’s ready.
Stuff like that.
Being able to talk to it like a human, and have it complete tasks autonomously. That’s the million dollar implementation. Everyone will have their own personal assistant.
Oh yes. My last assistant from Amazon was super helpful.
I wouldn’t mind a AI buddy to help me with programming stuff
Phind.com is my coding buddy.
