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The Future: Personal Assistants (Companions)

Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

As technology continues to be come more compact and more powerful, I think one of the biggest consumer/business breakthroughs is going to come in the form of a personal assistance application with pseudo/quasi AI capabilities.

Imagine an application that spends 24 hours a day optimizing y ... Continue reading »

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  • Marisol

    2 years ago

    I'm totally diggin' it.

    Interestingly, yesterday, I started looking into PDA's. My very active social life warrants a need to get everything "down" in one place and the day planner obviously hasn't been the best method for me. LOL Really, though, I was thinking it would be great to have my calendar available to me electronically. And have a place to write the slew of notes I tend to collect on my workstations (office and home). However, I don't think I'm as geeky to maybe you when it comes to items such as PDA's (no offense; love ya bro). So, I just need something really basic. Found a few reviews online and I'm still mulling it over. If you have any suggestions, let me know.

    And if you develop "the assistant" can I test it out for ya?
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  • Michael S Black

    2 years ago

    I've been thinking about this concept since High School, course back then I assumed it would require a neural/machine interface...now I just think it would be more efficient. I've always thought that a digital AI overlay (the DC, so to speak) on your consciousness, say low-level organization and memory routines, combined with Internet access, and self-modifying "quasi" AI will spark a new paradigm in human consciousness, maybe even an evolutionary leap. Many, if not most, people that I have discussed this with have been appalled, "How would you learn, how would you mature, what effect on my personality would this have, etc..."

    Think about it, learning by rote, or learning basic facts would be useless. Most of the things taught from K-12, aside from social skills, and emotional maturity, would no longer be needed to be learned by your "wetware", the hardware would handle things like that. Direct sensory interfaces could provide multi-sensory Eidetic memory, the ability to sift thru what you are experiencing and selectively listen, smell, hear, see, taste. Combined with a repository of human knowledge (good and bad), this would literally change our definition of Humanity.
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  • Ken

    2 years ago

    This is one of the best ideas I have ever heard. I was in a conversation just the other day and realized I need a personal assistant. With my current position I handle tons of things and having someone do these more menial, but still meaningful tasks would be great.
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