I'm not categorically against the development, but I want to categorically confirm bank transactions.
Honestly you wouldn't believe how good these models are if you haven't tried it. They really are amazing.
But to be honest, I don't think it will get to the state you dream about, just like smart homes never got close and are more of a hassle than an actual life improvement. Unless it is almost 100% perfect it will error out in ways that are extremely annoying, ordering the wrong groceries, booking the wrong trip, etc. It's really hard to cross over the point where it's absolutely helpful without hiccups.
Seriously, every little annoying thing in life is going to be automated, so you get to free yourself to do the things you really want to do.
Like making music or drawing?
Where did I not include "health insurance plan" as a chore, exactly? Do not strawman what I said, please.
My point was towards this:
> Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine.
A lot of the fun I have with my vacation is doing the research, learning the place, finding about spots that aren't the beaten path to check out (including restaurants, cheap eats, bars, etc.). Automating that would remove the fun of figuring out what I want to see at the places I'm going to, it's a braindead way of vacationing, completely understand it's the case for some people but it's not at all fulfilling to me to have that designed by some digital parrot.
If I’ve been to Paris a hundreds times, I don’t need to do any research, just want the same hotel or a comparable hotel in a comparable neighborhood to where I stayed in my last visit. That I can delegate to AI.
This thing already exists though, it’s called a personal assistant. And since you’re already not willing to spend $400 a month on getting one, likely reveals that this is not really a thing that you really need in your life. It’s a made-up preference, I am afraid.
The US labor force is at 4.5% unemployment. That's nowhere near enough for everyone to have personal assistants.
I think, if someone is not organized enough to create a recurring reminder for themselves, they are probably also not organized enough to instruct someone else to remind about it, and to follow up upon the reminder.
Two stories:
When my father was in Japan in the 1970s, he was strutting around like a rooster in an obnoxious, white suit and crossed paths with a Zen monk quietly sweeping a path. The monk looked up at him and my father felt, he said, about six inches tall. The dignity and focus of the monk put my father to shame.
I was once in Princeton, NJ, waiting to cross a crosswalk at a streetlight. Someone extremely famous (I think) and certainly incredibly wealthy was in a car at an intersection, waiting for the car in front of her to turn so she could proceed. She was beside herself -- honking, screaming, practically crying. Being asked to wait for someone else was more than she could stand.
Obviously these experiences relied on a lot of assumptions and interpretation on my and my father's part. I'm sure there were other ways of reading the monk and driver.
Regardless, when I imagine the world you're describing, what I see is a combination of my father in the white suit and the driver: spoiled, incompetent, impatient, egocentric people incapable of enduring the indignity of having to make any decisions for themselves, wait for anything, or stoop to the humiliating depths of thinking about the boring stuff. In a weird, backwards way, what you're describing also sounds like subservience to me.
Smartphones are bad for people. This sounds much, much, much worse. I hope I die before/if the technology "matures."
Arent we taking the next step to the dystopia portrayed in Matrix. Many of us are already trapped in the social media matrix and manipulated by it. We can now outsource all our cognition and decision making to these machines, and sip cocktails on a beach, while these machines show us the narratives we want to hear.
Life’s too short to figure out what kind of curtains are best for my home.
Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook.
And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine.
I am absolutely excited for all of this. It really is as big as the iPhone.