Ask HN: AI “white mirror” – what are some inspiring future visions you've seen?

My AI vision of the future involves using bots for research, study and cognitive enhancement. I want my bot to scour the literature and find the things I need, ideas and hints I couldn't stumble upon. I want the model to teach me at my own pace and in my own style, to adapt the lessons to my needs, and remember what I need to review. I want it to be multi-modal, to generate diagrams and visual models of our task, to synthesise the right UI for each situation.

> funding for public health programs

Why do you believe the solution needs to come from tax collected revenue? If you had a way to make people live healthier, don't you think people would pay you for it?

Online help for all apps will be pro-active.

Routine letters will be auto-generated, including letters to politicians. This will level the playing field for immigrants.

Customer service will improve radically: chatbots will actually understand what you're trying to do, and be better able to do it. Fingers crossed, voice phone tree IVR systems will finally go away.

Screensavers (including TV backgrounds) will be generative visual content and be inspiring, dynamic, any kind of content and it'll match the user and setting.

Project management tools (e.g. Jira) will capture requirements (plain English) and warn if a project is diverging or failing to meet the requirements. Obviously, this will start with the easy stuff and move to the complex stuff.

From circuits to architecture to the labels of products to logos, we'll create much more complex, interesting and varied designs with the aid of AI to both generate the designs and check that they meet requirements, including aesthetic judgments. In many cases, AI will simply issue warnings that something maybe wrong and for a human to check. Today, we use symmetry as a way to "scale up" a design - in the future, we'll use AI to generate non-repeating patterns that are nonetheless "beautiful."

The dark stuff will happen SO quickly, that governments will be forced to react, where today we pay lip service. For example, AI capital allocation will wildly reinforce the Pareto distribution (google it) requiring new and more aggressive capital reallocation structures (including taxation).

analytics reports and spreadsheets will be created by voice - you say what you want, then make adjustments. At the same time, external data sources will be able to be "pulled in" and ETL'd, also by voice.

Lots of comments think health could be transformed for the better.

I wish AI would help detect, eradicate and replace toxic artificial materials around us. It only impacts health in the second-order or more. And they would need to be significantly incorporated down the supply-chain. But it is necessary.

Maps directions, travel planning, etc will finally account for "happiness" and not just fastest/cheapest/shortest/etc path. You'll give it feedback about why you preferred a given route and then it'll learn. Food, wine etc recommendations will similarly improve, as they match words found in descriptions and reviews, with your feedback.