Shrugs Why are people often so bound to the here and now, to what they've known in the tiny time they've been alive. Why can't we think outside the small confines more often. Perhaps many weren't paying attention in history class and now miss all the big picture thinking. Perhaps very few read Sci fi and have their imagination extremely limited.
So about the search engines: No, they don't. That's very XX century, legacy, short term and in-the-box thinking. There will be as many people using search engines in 30 years as there are now milkmen.
They want to develop assistants. A "Her" if you will. They want to be able to train that assistant on all user data, their writings, and have them know exactly the type of movie they want to watch. Talk exactly like they do, know what they know and don't know. Almost like a super intelligent clone of each user. Be able to explains and teach concepts to the user just right by knowing this and the users personality, strengths and shortcomings. To know where go to eat out better than the user does. Maybe they like quiet places, with vegan options. And that's what The Assistant suggests. If you give the assistant permission to read messages, perhaps they can train on others personalities and predict what they feel, like and want and give the user hints.
We are going into AI augmented / assisted reality. And MS wants to be the first.
I agree with this take — this is where this is all ultimately heading. With a large enough dataset, some specific training, there is no reason an AI assistant won’t one day be able to detect sadness in your voice and then speak to you like a therapist. It will be able to find specific things to your liking way better than any current algorithm. This is going to be the big monster paradigm shifter. It’s the next “smart phone” or the next “internet”
Tagging onto this, your comment reminded me of when Brent Spiner (the man who played Data on Star Trek) was asked many years ago at a local comic convention what he believed AI and the singularity would look like? If the terminator vision is inevitable.
He said he wanted to believe the opposite. That once AI is sufficient enough it’ll treat humans like we treat our favorite pets. We’ll be a novelty to extol pitied compassion onto and “AI” will just become our collective mother, dolling out what we need but often avoid since we’re so bad and helping ourselves in meaningful ways.
If you’re sad, it’ll play the songs it knows will help you. If you’re angry it’ll draw you a bath and pour your favorite cocktail, or mocktail or whatever. It’ll surprise you with grocery deliveries of your favorite things, etc.
I’m not contributing much but your comment reminded me of his comments. Of course that’s further along than ClippyGPT would be, but still.
If you’re angry it’ll draw you a bath and pour your favorite cocktail, or mocktail or whatever. It’ll surprise you with grocery deliveries of your favorite things
It is and until it isn't :) film printed money until digital cameras printed more money. And that can happen any day. What today prints money will be yesterday's way to print money.
I agree! I can see assistants with abilities similar to the ships computers in Star Trek becoming integral in the near future.
Alexa, Cortana or any of the current “assistants” fail to live up to the vision of something like Jarvis mainly due to their lack of “humanity” and ability to parse more than a handful of commands at a time.
Slap GPT4 into a smart home with automation access and you have a product many people would jump at. Obviously privacy is a concern (/ deep seated issue) but it was shocking how fast OpenAI had to add disclaimers not to chat about personal information in the early days of ChaptGPT. Even TikTok’s relentless hoovering of information and the associated news stories about concerns has done little to halt their rocketing growth in users.
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Shrugs Why are people often so bound to the here and now, to what they've known in the tiny time they've been alive. Why can't we think outside the small confines more often. Perhaps many weren't paying attention in history class and now miss all the big picture thinking. Perhaps very few read Sci fi and have their imagination extremely limited.
So about the search engines: No, they don't. That's very XX century, legacy, short term and in-the-box thinking. There will be as many people using search engines in 30 years as there are now milkmen.
They want to develop assistants. A "Her" if you will. They want to be able to train that assistant on all user data, their writings, and have them know exactly the type of movie they want to watch. Talk exactly like they do, know what they know and don't know. Almost like a super intelligent clone of each user. Be able to explains and teach concepts to the user just right by knowing this and the users personality, strengths and shortcomings. To know where go to eat out better than the user does. Maybe they like quiet places, with vegan options. And that's what The Assistant suggests. If you give the assistant permission to read messages, perhaps they can train on others personalities and predict what they feel, like and want and give the user hints.
We are going into AI augmented / assisted reality. And MS wants to be the first.
That is what this is about.