Transcript: One other thing that I wish to mention is I think personal AI is going to have to be quite holistic. And I think I mentioned this previously, but I want to emphasize it in this message. That for the computer to be able to answer these more complex questions, it does need to know a fair bit about me. I think that will probably happen again inevitably. I think we are seeing people push that direction with devices like Tab and Rewind and all of this. I think that these things are a bit too early personally. I find the concept very interesting, but I cannot see it catching on at this moment. However, I do believe that it will catch on at some point. Whether that is a society we want to have or not is a different question. But I also think that there is possibility to influence that society, even if it is inevitable. In what ways do we wish to allow ourselves to be seen to others? I guess that is probably an open question and something that can be pushed on. It does not need to be just like everyone is surveilled all the time. It does not necessarily need to be that. I think that this is a broader thing that is happening in the world that is worthwhile to think about. And to not get, at least for me, too sad about. It is something that can be done thoughtfully and probably should be done thoughtfully. So, yes. Basically what I was saying is that this does need to be holistic. Listening at some point probably will be a thing. I am speaking into this thing right now. I wish to have something like this in my home and I will build that. I do wish to record what I am saying in my home. Maybe not all the time. But I find that good conversations happen at home. And to be able to have that in some kind of second brain could elucidate some of my patterns of thinking. And put some of those patterns out into the world, hopefully. In some way that is what I am doing right now by speaking into this. That I wish that I can look at these patterns at a broader level. Have bullet points of what they are and be able to dive into each of those bullet points. And that can be done very loosely. It does not need to be hyper-organized like a file system. The brain is the new file system. You can kind of just dump whatever the fuck you want in there and know you can retrieve it later. Yes, maybe there is still some hierarchy and stuff just because it is useful. It does not mean throw everything completely out. We can leverage the existing things that we have to make this new thing even better. It is not just a vector database. That is not enough. We need some kind of log whether that log be in a database or some other form. It is needed so we can look through time. And also be able to quickly access relevant information that may not be specifically related to vectors. Vectors give us an intuition. Let me say that again. Vectors give us an intuition. They get us in the ballpark and the neighborhood. But that may not always be enough. A sufficiently complex question will be in multiple neighborhoods. And that will be hard, I believe, to represent in vector space in a single question. Maybe it gets close enough. But from the vector algorithms that I have seen so far, it often does not get close enough. Maybe that is the performance of the one that we are using. There are others. This is something to be evaluated, but it gets you in the ballpark. So after you get in the ballpark, you need to do more to figure out what is actually salient and relevant to that question. Anyhow, this is me thinking about out loud about more implementation level details of how the brain would get made.
The personal AI becomes an application platform, allowing users to ask it to plan activities and perform additional tasks such as feature and metadata extraction. Through understanding the user's preferences and reaching out to the internet for relevant information, the AI can propose personalized weekly plans and communicate between other users' AI systems. This approach provides a customizable and beneficial tool for personal growth, making tasks more efficient and offering the potential for improved connections between individuals.
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