The next step in AI and machine-human interactions

[Carl-Richard]

What will be the next in AI and machine-human interactions before AGI and before Neuralinks is generalized AI agents.

They will capture data from your daily life, like a smartwatch does for your physiological data, but for your everyday interactions and your online footprint (as well as physiological data). These will be fed into a system where the AI analyzes the data and gives structured insights and feedback on how you can improve things you are working on, your personality type/traits, your movement patterns, your sleeping habits, your eating habits. Everything you can imagine that can be recorded, your AI will use it to enhance your life.

Currently, the problem with AI moving to AGI is of course the problem of agency, autonomous behavior, perception, generally relevance realization (how to solve ill-defined problems, how to pick out relevant information from an essentially infinite sea of information, how to move through an environment unaccompanied by human nannying or hand-holding). And of course the problem with Neuralinks is we're not anywhere near the sufficient scale for the machine-human interactions to bypass machine-human interfaces like screens, smartphones, personal computers.

So for now, we will utilize the generalized data processor that is the smartphone, and use AI's current capabilities through that. And as AI is not autonomous, it has to have structures and softwares built in place to do the data collection. Big companies like Meta will eventually take care of this, but in the meantime, startups might have a market for a while (I've toyed with the idea and have the potential means to start it, but I'm split between other paths).

This is essentially about introducing a second brain to your life, which is platinum content for your personal development. The amount of checking mechanisms you can have (for personal epistemology, bias, self-deception), the routine-refinement, it's all made more dense and powerful by not just AI's computational ability but the opponent processing (two minds, and the relationship between two minds, are better than one).

Edited yesterday at 07:39 AM by Carl-Richard

[CARDOZZO]

I like your perspective. Do you want more? Read Greg Egan's books - Permutation City, Diaspora, Axiomatic.

[Joseph Maynor]

Very true.  It's a collaboration between me and AI.  But don't cede too much, you have to double-check because AI can have bias.  And AIs also conflict and will conflict more moving forward.  We're in a new age for sure.

[Eskilon]

So the next step before AGI is a smartwatch type device? Which device will the next step be on?

[Carl-Richard]

31 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

So the next step before AGI is a smartwatch type device?

It can be an app on your phone; your phone already can record sound, it can record the screen on your phone, the app can gather your general online footprint, etc. And of course various accessories like heart rate monitors (like smartwatches), vision trackers and smartglasses (cameras), brain measurement helmets if you want to be very geeked out. But yes, just any form of measurement, sent to an app that gives in-depth and structured AI insights. Think of it like a live, extremely comprehensively behavioral study, where tons of variables can be correlated across various time points.

There are already limited versions of this for various purposes, but I'm talking about a generalized, powerful and obviously useful one, the same logic behind the smartphone itself. I got this idea from working with an app called ExpiWell which is used in behavioral research for gathering data on the mobile phones of research participants in their daily lives (and from developing a website for using AI to analyze personality using various online and offline data sources). It's those two ideas combined and taken to their logical conclusion when increasing power: more data, more data types, more types of insights, more utility.

Edited 6 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[Opulence]

There are health apps on phone that act like a smartwatch. I'm just wondering how accurate all these AI devices will be in the future or just another tech gimmick.