The cofounder of Google’s AI division DeepMind says everybody will have their own AI-powered ‘chief of staff’ over the next five years::Mustafa Suleyman said AI will “intimately know your personal information” and be able to serve you 24-7.
And will it run locally away from all the tracking and ads? Thats what I thought.
it very well might. You can get impressive models running locally on a laptop with 16 gigs of ram and an out of date graphics card. That leaked memo from google saying that they have no moat (and neither do any other ai conpanies) seems to be correct.
This sentiment in the current climate is stupid, but I do think the concept is inevitable. We didn’t always have phones on us 24/7, phones are already somewhat powered by AI. So what will everyone having their own AI look like in a way that doesn’t just sound like a chatGPT joke? What would make it a desirable future?
Being able to talk to it like a human, and have it complete tasks autonomously. That’s the million dollar implementation. Everyone will have their own personal assistant.
That would be great if it happens. Lets hope we get a class of helpers or butlers that do not phone home, but build on top of open models and protocols
“Morning sir, I made an appointment with the dentist for you at 2.30. I also thought you might like to know about these penis growth pills and an investment in gold bullion I can recommend “
I wouldn’t mind a AI buddy to help me with programming stuff
Lmao what a load of horseshit
I do wonder why Cortana, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are lagging so behind these LLMs. I personally don’t use them with any frequency other than setting timers, but it’s annoying to even consider using them and then realizing they are not as nearly as usable or helpful as ChatGPT.
They’re working on it, but it takes time. Especially making it reliable.
The current crop of llm’s will happily answer or do nonsense or even dangerous things.
I know Apple’s developing their own LLM which will hopefully be used in Siri. There’s no guarantee, but I can’t think it would be too hard to add Bard into Google Assistant. Cortana on the other hand was canceled by Microsoft and is being replaced by Bing chat. I believe Amazon is also stopping the Alexa development
The big thing that’s holding Apple back regarding Siri is that they aim to have all their AI-driven functions processed on the user’s hardware, for security/privacy. So they not only need the software component, they want to have the hardware capable of running it inside the individual phones.
eh… sounds like privacy theater to me. Only the audio transcription may be processed on the device.
In all cases, transcripts of your interactions will be sent to Apple to process your requests
They might aim to have a full blown LLM on the device, but it’ll never be as good as the others with these limitations.
Many teams are currently working on striking the right balance of fine tuning and model size. Most aren’t considering phones yet, but PCs off network.
It is entirely possible to have an LLM run “closed loop”, but obviously Google and Apple want in that loop
For “impressive” general reasoning and conversation these LLM currently require pretty beefy hardware. You’re either lugging a GPU around or calling to an API.
Aren’t these current personal assistants already relying on API calls for their responses?
Like siri? Yes, my point pertained to hardware needed for LLM specifically though
Not if it’s spying on me for google I won’t
Right. It’s not our AI. It’s Google’s AI. It doesn’t work for us anymore than Facebook does.
There to spy and sell you shit. It’s not your friend but a high tech used car dealer.
It does make me wonder how far could we push self-hosted models. Speech to text by itself is already doable faster than real-time with a 1070 using OpenAI’s whisper model. Maybe in 10 years from now it will be trivial to have a self-hosted AI personal assistant? It doesn’t need to do absolutely everything right or blazingly fast to be useful enough for day-to-day house and work assistance.
Mycroft is the best open source personal assistant I’m aware of at the moment
Oh yes. My last assistant from Amazon was super helpful.
TL;DR We will know what you like and tell you what you want
100% honesty, an AI assistant that is capable of handling basic tasks is exactly what I want. What I don’t want is an AI assistant from Google.
I’m good thanks. I don’t need A.I., I’ll stick with using old fashioned I.
People in 1999: “Why would I need a phone on the go? People can reach me at home, and I already have an answering machine.”
Not that I don’t think you are right. But if it’s going to be anything like smartphones, the vast majority will use it regardless of the many drawbacks.
Chief of staff ? …or employe’s overlord ?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind, Google’s AI division, told CNBC during an interview that everybody is going to have their own AI-powered personal assistants within the next five years as the technology becomes cheaper and more widespread.
As the technology continues to evolve, Suleyman believes that AI’s role in people’s lives will go beyond just personal assistance.
Suleyman didn’t immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment before publication when contacted through his company Inflection AI.
Workers across industries have used ChatGPT to develop code, create marketing strategies, and generate lesson plans.
Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft, wrote in a seven-page letter that AI is “as fundamental” as the creation of the internet, and predicts that the technology can help make the jobs of healthcare workers and teachers easier.
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, told investors on an earnings call earlier this year that the technology has “enormous potential” to “affect virtually everything we do” at the iPhone maker.
The original article contains 540 words, the summary contains 161 words. Saved 70%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
“The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.”
This dude is going to look real foolish in five years (if not already).
