Its never easy saying goodbye.
But its obvious that the time has come.
We need to ditch big techs virtual assistants and calmly demand a little more autonomy in ourAI.
Up front:The dream has always been to make personal assistants accessible to everyone.
Billions of peopleuse theseAI-powered tools everyday.
So why on Earth would anyone want to get rid of them?
Because you deserve so much better.
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Yet all weve seen in the past five years is fine-tuning and tweaks.
Back in 2018, Google Assistant sometimes struggled to understand me.
Now it usually catches what Im saying.
The reality: Current virtual assistants all live on servers.
The companies who build and train the AI models that power them use your data to make them better.
Theyre biased towards features and capabilities that funnel the most useful data upstream.
Essentially,theyre Candy Crush.
But instead of your attention, they want your data.
They do what they do and if that works for you, great.
If not: you’ve got the option to choose not to use them.
But thats not how human assistants work.
A good human assistant knows how to focus on a client and adapt to their needs.
The solution:Make virtual assistants personal.
Theres nothing stopping big tech, or an enterprising startup, from building AI systems that operate completely offline.
Now, the majority of these devices have onboard AI chips complementing their processors.
Imagine, if you will, an open-source neural web connection built onself-supervised learningalgorithms.
All it would take is a private networking protocol running through blockchain-based authentication.
