I would like a personal assistant on my phone that, based on my usual routine and my exact position, can tell me (for example) which bus will get me home the quickest off the ferry, whether the bridge is clogged with traffic, do I need an umbrella? what's probably missing from my fridge, time to top up transit pass, did I tap in? etc etc. These things would appear on my lock screen when I most probably need to know them.

No email stuff, no booking things, no security problems.

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Angostura 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sounds like you just need to install Apple Maps, Apple Weather^* and some separte fridge-tracking app. No need of additional intrusive AI

^* or equivalents

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somewhereoutth 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Indeed I have a bunch of apps that do most of these things, but it's the seamless integration I'm looking for - which may not need much AI at all (especially of the LLM kind), just some well directed machine learning and UI integration.

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dawnerd 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Home assistant automations?

	▲	3eb7988a1663 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I read this as the aspirational dream of computers actually doing what you want. Yes, you can absolutely spend a bunch of time to build out the personal automation that will proactively inform you of relevant events. Yet, that is likely to be a lot of finicky messing around that may be pretty fragile and dependent upon N APIs staying fixed.

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Ekaros 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sounds like there is need for decent singular interface for bunch of expert systems. Sadly I think everyone is so deep into locking their own thing down from others that this will never happen.

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gos9 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No security problems carries a lot of weight here because by design you’re having to expose a significant amount of information but this is doable as a weekend project

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feznyng 7 hours ago | parent [-]

How? There's a bunch of annoying problems here:

- Where do you source real time traffic data, ferry schedules, etc? Google APIs get you part of the way there but you'd need to crawl public transit sites for the rest.

- How do you keep track of what went into the fridge, what was consumed/thrown away?

- How do you track real world events like buying a physical pass?

	▲	gos9 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Feeding everything into a secure local environment with intelligence injected and then push things to your phone. Oh wait. That might be a little insecure! Hmm.

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cj 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean that also sounds like a logical first step.

If “AI” can predict what you need, start with that. And layer in the “do it for me” (“book me the 1pm ferry”) later on.

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esskay 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In an alternative reality Apple didn't absolutely shit the bed on AI and made this possible. Sadly they've shown they are woefully behind and have utterly useless people leading divisions they shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near.