[iambateman]

I think this was an interesting thought experiment but I actually think it is subtly off-base.

The Next Button would be just a little bit off too often to be useful. But I definitely think a bot will be able to take direct input along the lines of “open gmail and draft all responses” and then execute that.

It’s like self-driving. The bot either needs to be capable of doing everything or it will still need significant direction along the way.

This is not to quibble with the author - I think the future will be weird, but I don’t think we will be able to release a bot to choose its own adventure for quite some time.