Why do you say early next year?

Agents barely work as of now. OpenAI’s plugins that ~do~ things like browse are still quite slow.

Partially openai’s “chatgpt5 will be done by December and achieve AGI”, partially a wish to stir a discussion here with hopeful language, and partially my burndown chart for my own implementation :)

> Your personal assistant can’t help you if you need to tell it what you’re doing all the time!

I assume "help" in this case will mean shoving endless ads your face and feeding manipulative lies to you on behalf of anyone willing to pay for it.

I believe in the power of open source and self-hosting, in this case.

Sounds interesting, any reading material you could point to about this?

Hmmm it’s a very hard thing to sum up in one piece, not sure I have a good author… I highly recommend skimming Marvin Minsky’s “The Frame Problem” (TL;DR personal assistants will only be helpful once they have intuition), and Picardy writings on Affective computing (TL;DR computers need to simulate our mental states in order to help us effectively). This is a good reminder to look for more lit though!

Philosophy wise, I’m frustratingly forgetting the two people who write about how one’s consciousness can be said to include things like personal journals, record books, calendars, etc. The idea is that you’re offloading part of your mind into artificial forms, in a very meaningful and real way. Will update if I remember their names soon! In the meantime, this is a great skim on the more general topic IMO: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/

Thanks!