Your Personal AI (PAI): Pt 1 — Your Attention Please
The Brave New World of Personalized Smart Agents & their Data
22 min readApr 6, 2016
A Multi-Part Series
Part 1 — Your Attention Please (this post)
Part 2 — Why Agents Matter
Part 3 — The Agent Environment
Part 4 — Deep Agents
Part 5 — Deep Training
John Smart is a futurist and scholar of complex adaptiveness and accelerating change. These posts are from his book, The Foresight Guide, free online at ForesightGuide.com. The Guide is an intro to the exciting and vital field of professional foresight, and it offers a Big Picture view of key trends, transitions, and challenges of our 21st century. Check it out!
Part 1 — Your Attention Please: A New World Is Almost Upon Us
Summary (tl;dr)
- This series will explore the five- to twenty-year future of smart agents and the knowledge bases they use and build, with a focus on the personalizing versions of these tools, which we can call Personal AIs (PAIs). In my view as a futurist, PAIs may be the single most socially, economically, and politically important IT development we will see in the next two decades.
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