This really approaches what a digital personal assistant should be like. But there are two things holding me back from using it for the long term: third-party application privacy and non-locally running AI models.
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
These clubs = those who paid the most for ads
If this app took off then I'm sure this would be the eventual reality.
It’s the reality currently because your friend’s recommendations are strongly based on what they have been exposed to via Google too — that is, ads.
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#103I wonder if Obsidian, with ChatGPT API attached to it can achieve the same goal. Sure, metadata and folders and stuff will have to be set up properly, but you control the data at the end of the day.
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#104Something like this is most certainly going to become the mainstream interface for computing. I think the most likely thing that will hit mass market adoption will look much more like the voice interface in Her than a chat app. I couldn't imagine my mom getting much utility out of an app like this but if the AI is good enough I could certainly see her chatting with her phone as if it was a person.
the problem with voice interfaces is.. How does that work, in public? Late at night when the family is asleep? In noisy environments? During meetings or movies? During conversations with other people? Movies/tv shows voice interfaces work well because the environment and situations where it happens is 100% controlled and driven by plot. The real world is so much messier...
Members of my family speak perfect English, but have an accent. To this day every auto-transcribed voicemail of theirs is just total gibberish.
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#105> Dot remembers Mei’s interest in singing and proactively sends her suggestions for music clubs at school. Imagine having so little agency and motivation within your own existence on this earth that you need an app to remind of what you once found life—affirming.
I don't have to imagine, I have ADHD and depression, and I can't wait to get this app.
It will not be the magic bullet (or pill) you're looking for
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
see: Jexi https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9354944/
Her 2013 "Do you mind if I look through your hard drive?" "Umm... okay" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV01B5kVsC0 (3:35) I do like this part a lot, as a loner guy but I cannot trust something I didn't make (tinfoil hat guy digs silica by hand)
That settles it, I need to watch this movie.
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#107This is the most likely-to-be-Sherlocked[1] thing I've seen in a while. And when Apple does it, the processing will be done on-device. [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked
tend to agree, apple PMs are probably all over this rn.
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#108I immediately recognized this as either inspired from or actually from the same creators of the mercuryos concept https://www.mercuryos.com/ . Turns out it's the latter. I love the Mercury OS concept and think it's design both elegantly and sort of subversively packs a myriad of potentially breakthrough ideas. I have been stewing with ideas around the same vision for years. The idea of a new type of UI where the UI s…
for posterity, why did mercuryOS fail?
I don't think it ever failed in the sense it never shipped because that was out of scope.
It was never meant to be an end-product. It was a concept/case-study. Happy they're finally realising that vision.
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#109FYI to the website designer: on desktop, this website does not have a scrollbar. In addition to that being an accessibility issue, I closed the website after I got tired of paging and/or using the scroll wheel.
A tip: click your scroll wheel and then simply move your mouse up or down to scroll.
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#110“Mei is studying for a science exam, and Dot regurgitates a moon landing hoax conspiracy theory. Mei is confused and asks Dot to clarify, which it does with an immediate retraction, followed by a different conspiracy theory from the flat earth society. Dot then enters a hallucinatory loop, converging on a picture of a mutilated alien, eventually running out of resources and crashing. Mei has inadvertently violated the ToS and the service provider terminates her account without notice or any prospect of appeal.”