[rolenthedeep]

One of my biggest dreams is a self-hosted AI that always listens through my phone and automatically takes notes, puts events in my calendar, set reminders, and template journal entries. A true personal assistant to keep my increasingly-complex life in order.

I'd love a system where I can just point a search engine at my brain. I tried really hard for a while, but I just didn't have the discipline or memory to exhaustively document everything.

An AI that can do this kind of thing in the background would be an absolute godsend for ADHD and ASD people.

[dewey]

I feel like this was the promise of voice assistants like Siri many years ago, turns out they currently still have issues turning on / off lights reliably.

[lloydatkinson]

I was thinking the other day that Amazon and others are probably going to either use ChatGPT or their own version to replace the core of many of their voice assistants. Siri is useless.

Alexa used to be better, but only yesterday I asked it to flip a coin.

"I've added flip a coin to your basket"

???

I asked again, and she actually flipped a coin.

[asdff]

I'll believe an AI model can update my calendar accurately only after it can correctly tell if I just said 15 or 50.

[wazoox]

Just say "Meet Jane tomorrow at ten to four PM" and you're gold :)

[taydotis]

Meeting with Jane scheduled from 10am to 4pm tomorrow ;)

[asdff]

"Here's what I could find about Mahjong Tournaments 1024"

[rolenthedeep]

The issue with modern voice "assistants" is that it's impossible to monetize them and still keep them useful. Something like this will probably never get built by a capitalist corporation because there's no way to turn a profit.

That's why siri and Google are driving their assistants into the ground with "by the way"

[dewey]

I don't think this makes sense, it's a feature that makes their platform more valuable even if not directly monetized. There's many features like that.

If someone would nail voice assistants that would be a bit selling point for their platform and it's a good way to get people into their paid services too.

Not really sure what you are referring to with driving the assistants in the ground, from what I can tell it's just not very good tech ("one moment", "working on it", "there was an problem answering this query",...) and not related to any monetization strategies.

[lannisterstark]

You'd think that they can probably support this with the ad-revenue they're getting...

[senectus1]

MS is very close to this. they have chatGPT listening to meetings and taking notes then adding tasks to attendee calendars...

[lazyasciiart]

Would be useful if it can insert notes like “no agenda planned” and “this meeting could have been an email”

[seeraan]

Tactiq does it already (can sign up for the beta)

[alostpuppy]

Link? Because I’m gonna need this.

[senectus1]

they lightly cover it in this blogpost https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/02/0...

but I've seen more detailed capability... I can't remember if It was under NDA though. I cant seem to find it with a quick search though

[tactiq]

https://tactiq.io/

[gk1]

Rewind is trying to do this: https://www.rewind.ai/

(I am not affiliated.)

[mesozoic]

Wasn't this a Black Mirror episode?

[zirgs]

And reports you to police if you happen to do something illegal?

[rolenthedeep]

What do you think you're adding to this conversation?

[vineyardmike]

It’s a genuine concern. If you are constantly recording your life, and sharing it with a third party, you’re building an incredible paper trail of every minor infraction.

There’s a whole bunch of “crimes” that society just kinda ignored at scale. Eg underage drinking in college. People knowingly and willingly speed when it’s against the law. Imagine if your smart car automatically recorded and stored its speed and gps coordinates at all times? It’d be so easy for the government to automatically subscribe to that data and start sending automated tickets… nevermind all the worse things that can happen.

This data can be manipulated and abused by stalkers and hackers, abusive partners controlling their wives or kids, churches trying to guilt you into behaving differently, etc.

[rolenthedeep]

> If you are constantly recording your life, and sharing it with a third party

Which is why the very first sentence of my post includes the phrase "self-hosted"