Ask HN: Personal Operating System for Work?

#1

Post by hsikka » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

Hey HN, I’m working on an interesting piece of software for my Master’s thesis, basically an extensible personal assistant for work. It can do useful things like search across all your internal files, generate notes and reminders from documents, and even attempt to learn your habits to surface useful suggestions and analytics.

Would something like this be useful as an open source project or even a commercial SaaS product? Does anything like this exist in industry?

Re: Ask HN: Personal Operating System for Work?

#2

Post by davidddavidson » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 8:09 PM UTC

Sounds like Clippy or BonziBuddy. Both received overwhelmingly negative reception.

Re: Ask HN: Personal Operating System for Work?

#3

Post by maDdj » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 9:46 PM UTC

I am working on the same lines, creating an AI assistant which will pretty much do anything you want to do and you will do. I have been training the model on my UI actions on the computer and trying for my assistant to do the same using reinforcement learning. I haven't reached an appreciable working product yet it works great for me, it can screen cast, type passwords not only in browser but also on consoles. I am constantly adding features to it and I have had the same question as you for a long time.

Re: Ask HN: Personal Operating System for Work?

#4

Post by maDdj » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 9:48 PM UTC

davidddavidson wrote: post #2

Sounds like Clippy or BonziBuddy. Both received overwhelmingly negative reception.

Clippy/Bonzibuddy were before the time of deep nets so all you can expect from them is a bunch of predicate logic but not real learning.

Re: Ask HN: Personal Operating System for Work?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 12:16 AM UTC

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#6

Post by schappim » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 7:43 AM UTC

maDdj wrote: post #3

I am working on the same lines, creating an AI assistant which will pretty much do anything you want to do and you will do. I have been training the model on my UI actions on the computer and trying for my assistant to do the same using reinforcement learning. I haven't reached an appreciable working product yet it works great for me, it can screen cast, type passwords not only in browser but also on consoles. I am c…

Can you share more information about how it works?