The Next Step for AI - Full Personal Interaction Capture

The open web has been and will continue to decline. The incentives to create content are further decreasing due to AI tools that answer user questions based on web search and content. Even just maintaining public access to existing content will not be obviously economical in the medium term. The text part of the web is mostly captured, images and video are under way. Since killing the open web and future content for AI training is bad, I wondered what the next big step is. The step that puts the AI data feedback loop on a sustainable path.

In my view the main goal is to capture all personal input and output via microphone, camera and computer-use observation. This would represent a step-up in data set size and quality, and get AI closer to human performance. The value add would be a cooperative AI integrated in this manner. I.e. it listens, watches and contributes through loud speakers and computer/phone use.

With this, AI platforms will cocreate and try to fully predict the article that a person has not written yet, and the book that may be written one day. Perhaps this would even yield better results as these are often unnecessarily verbose. Besides, most people won’t read the whole piece anyways. So some meta version, adapted to personal preference when viewed, seems better. Such a system requires profit sharing as an incentive or perhaps platforms can get away with just taking it. The implications for sovereignty and law are big.

When the conversations, computer-use and cameras of a large group of people (ultimately everyone) is digested, it would likely become possible to rediscover or redefine the social hierarchy. On the surface, the AI does not immediately know the relative importance of what it is looking at. It is implicit in page rank, titles, relationships, money, job descriptions, followers, social standing, contracts and labels. But it should be possible to find this relationship in the training data, and even generate a novel, perhaps more equitable, version. This could facilitate connecting skill, ideas and capital more efficiently. Again the implications are enormous.

The only company within reach of capturing all personal input and output, as well as being able to fully integrate AI cooperation is Apple. They have the devices, smart glasses on the horizon and a basic foundation with Continuity for seamless, cross-device, personal AI cooperation.