The title is actually misleading. To me the meat is more what is the actual desirable user experience, from a trust and agency perspective. When do people want to give up agency, when do they want full control, and when do they want some level of automatic lift?
Restaurant reservations come up a lot but it doesn’t seem particularly full of friction.. especially because I almost certainly don’t want this automated. It ignores both taste, a host of preferences that are time/context dependent, and giant social-not-technical-stop-thinking-it’s-technical problems like scheduling.
What are practical everyday problems that people would want a personal agent for, beyond just info retrieval?
This is a great article, and there's definitely a need for discovery for these agents.
While I am skeptical about personal AI agents, I instead believe in personalized experiences through a network of agents. We are building this search engine just for this purpose. It's named index.network and functions as a discovery protocol for these agents to hear each other, respond, and produce knowledge. We enable them to use natural language to discover their identities, reputations, and knowledge, all with complete data ownership.
It's going to be funny all the agents we forget are still running, abandoned agents, 'ghosts', wandering the internet, talking to each other for hours, days..
I'm kidding though, agents right now are GPT-2, not very intelligent. I'd say GPT-4 is super intelligent - within its own context.
What would GPT-4 level 'agency' look like? 'Super agency'.. do you plan it, or does it plan you? Do we really think super intelligent AI with agency is something that we can actually control? We're pretty much just dancing around the great filter at this point.
Restaurant reservations come up a lot but it doesn’t seem particularly full of friction.. especially because I almost certainly don’t want this automated. It ignores both taste, a host of preferences that are time/context dependent, and giant social-not-technical-stop-thinking-it’s-technical problems like scheduling.
What are practical everyday problems that people would want a personal agent for, beyond just info retrieval?