Why you will love and hate working with an Artificial Intelligence.
It’s Thursday night in Brooklyn; I’m working late on my new startup as Europe is waking up. My mailbox is filled with meeting requests and articles to read; a cup of tea in my hand I review my pipelines of customers. I’m about to go to bed, but before enjoying the end of another long day in my startup life, I send a last email to Amy @x.ai…
Amy is a hard worker and she works non-stop, but the most amazing thing about Amy is that she is an artificial intelligence.
If you’re a personal assistant, it is already time to look for a new job.
Amy took away any need I might have for a remote assistant. All I need to do is to send her an email and cc whoever I want to meet. “She” will look at my calendar and organize a call at the best time possible. It’s still very basic, but I’m mesmerized by how much she “understands” me.
For instance, she politely asks me for my favorite places in New York or Brooklyn so she can arrange my physical meetings there. In few words she’s really making my life easier, and that is something both amazing and scary if your current job is to be an assistant…
When Objects become Alive
As everything with silicon based technology this is just the beginning, in the last 30 years we saw the rise of Object oriented programming, that allowed to build amazingly complex software. But the future will see the rise of a new Paradigm: Agent Oriented Programming. What that mean, is that objects are becoming alive! They can “feel” and talk with each other.
Like in Pinocchio who was just a wooden doll, Mario who was just an “object” started to almost have a life of his own as an intelligent agent http://time.com/3674972/mario-lives-artificial-intelligence/
We’re years away from the movie “Her” where the all Operating System is an agent but, hopefully the future of Help Desk will be better than the one in the movie ☺
How will the rest of the world react to the rise of Intelligent Agents?
People will probably fight Intelligent Agents at one point, after all in the near future they will take the job of many people as much as making your life easier.
The world is about to change, and as Robert Sterling would put it in one of his twilight zone episode: “it happens to be the historical battle between flesh and steel, between the brain of man and the product of man’s brain. We all may book on this one and predict no winner”.
What is certain is that agents will become something important in our lives, so get ready to live with 1000s of Amys within the next 10 years.
