I think the way the world is right now, people need to feel like there is a new wave of ‘something good’ … and whilst AI is certainly going to take many jobs, it opens up a whole world of possibility for those who are prepared to learn about it, work hard and creatively use it. So there has been this huge positive wave of energy (certainly amped up with money) toward innovation. It may well be that LLMs have limitations, and that we are witnessing a bubble… but people are now TRYING new things. Technical and non-technical people are finding they can do a whole lot more using AI. What I mean is, a lot of crazy ideas are being unlocked. Pandora’s box has been opened.
True Personal Assistants
For me, it gives me the opportunity to build a personal assistant of the magnitude that i’ve wanted to few decades. I think the science fiction movies and video games influenced me in wanting to build these personal assistants.
Examples are
JARVIS Assistant From Iron Man Movies
J.A.R.V.I.S., which stands for “Just A Rather Very Intelligent System,” is Tony Stark’s natural-language user interface computer system, named after Edwin Jarvis, the butler who worked for Howard Stark and the Stark household.18 Initially, J.A.R.V.I.S. was developed as a simple AI assistant to control Stark’s Iron Man suit, but it evolved into a powerful AI capable of managing various tasks and assisting Stark in his personal and superhero life.51 J.A.R.V.I.S. uses advanced natural language processing and communication skills to understand and respond to Stark’s commands, making it more than just an AI tool—it’s a trusted companion.
So, the ‘trusted companion’ thing here is the key.
Cortana from Halo
As an artificial construct, Cortana has no physical form or being. Cortana speaks with a smooth female voice, and projects a holographic image of herself as a woman. Cortana is said to resemble Halsey, with a similar attitude “unchecked by military and social protocol”. In Halo: The Fall of Reach, Cortana is described as slender, with close-cropped hair and a skin hue that varies from navy blue to lavender, depending on her mood.[6]: 216 Numbers and symbols flash across her form when she is thinking.[9] Halsey sees Cortana as a teenage version of herself: smarter than her parents, always “talking, learning, and eager to share her knowledge”.[6]: 218 Cortana is described as having a sardonic sense of humor[10] and often cracks jokes or wryly comments, even during combat.[6]: 217
There’s a few more but that’s enough for now
So, the key components are:
- LLMs (Language Models)
- Decision Trees
- GenerativeUI
- Automation flows
- Data Mining & Analysis
- Context and Object Oriented Memory
- MCP
In the future I imagine, the internet has pretty much been abstracted from us. Which isn’t a great thought for most of us, but it’s kind of a natural progression. Things change, for instance it was naive of me to think that I could have another 20 years of making money doing the same thing until I retire i.e programming.
At school, I had a maths teacher who used to program in assembly. Talk about talent… in a few decades will we have any humans that know how to write in assembly? I always wondered why he didn’t still program, and it was probably because he didn’t move on.
In the same way, those of us who understand HTML/CSS/JS on a deep level … these skills are fast becoming abstracted away with vibe coding apps. The vibe coding apps that combine with Supabase are going to get better and better; but will the prediction machine ever get so good that it can really understand programming so that it makes it super clean (probably yes, as our prompt engineering gets better to help it). Eventually, the personal assistants will replace any requirements that vibe coding creates now.
The next big waves/industries to come along will be more widespread autonomous machines (drones, robots, cars), surveillance and wide scale sentiment monitoring; then beyond it some sort of biohacking industry specifically with longevity at the core; video games will have a resurgence in originality; so I do hope that something will replace the employment drop-off that will shortly happen.
That’s enough thoughts for today.
Work Updates:
- I continue to work on a side project to bring in a small amount of money but enough to cover personal costs. It’s a fun, high potential project, and made me realise I do like working on IT dev projects, and am quickly improving at the management of them.
- The DXP project is slowly getting to the beta launch was is great. Once that’s hit, I will share more details.
- My own platform is coming along. Shown it to a few people and I know these people wouldn’t sugarcoat stuff, it’s super days but reasonably positive. Just got to keep going.
- The ideas that would drive an AI Agency are coming together; but still a little way off from doing that
- Continually trying to keep up with the industry
- More and more aware of the necessity of marketing for everything
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