Prerequisite to personal AI worth a damn is data about you worth a damn.
It'd seem windows 10 is setting Microsoft up for this. Google is following suite with its own hardware.
Central task is to infer what you want and help you achieve it, but further, your AI can ask you questions too to work out all sorts of things subtely.
i think eventually, we'll think of I personal information as a commodity or "raw material" and regulate its extraction and trade as such.
My problem isn't with the AI having my data; it's with the company that created the AI having my data. That might be necessary to make an AI assistant practical using current technology, but it's not an inherent requirement.
Arguably, at a scale, it is cheaper for every separate device to process it's own voice-to-text and automate things.
But, doing it offline, has no incentive for advertising companies.
Universities / home automation companies / etc would be probably be more incentivized to develop that.
So, any advances in AI, if they come in the 'always online' will come with strings attached. It is not your AI optimization software, it's somebody's else.
Where is the border between inferring what I want and deciding (for me) what I want? How about an artificially created tilt toward certain consumer or political brands in the process of inferring what I want?
>i think eventually, we'll think of I personal information as a commodity or "raw material" and regulate its extraction and trade as such.
I don't think there is eventuality. We must fight hard now to change our society. We live in a era that determines how future will look like. Politics is path dependent and wrong choices now can have consequences that last centuries.
Economic information asymmetry[1] over consumers and competition benefits few large corporations that can leverage it over customers and competition. They will fight for tooth and nail to prevent consumer regulation. Governments have additional agendas.
It'd seem windows 10 is setting Microsoft up for this. Google is following suite with its own hardware.
Central task is to infer what you want and help you achieve it, but further, your AI can ask you questions too to work out all sorts of things subtely.
i think eventually, we'll think of I personal information as a commodity or "raw material" and regulate its extraction and trade as such.