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Expanding on the structure the OP created, this is how I see us getting to human level AI:

1. Record video sound etc... (trajectories) egocentrically

2. Analyze the data and assign reward labels (more/good, less/bad) to state and transitions actions

3. Use the reward feedback and trajectories to build the policy for some set of actions in certain environments

This is why I'm bullish on anything sousveillance - so AR cameras on your head, always on mics etc...

The challenge is doing this democratically, without it being intermediated by a giant for-profit mega corp that doesn't care about you and wants to mess with your head

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Honest question,how does this make the lives of humans better?

Well, for example. Lets say that I have a goal BMI I want to maintain

If I reach for the Oreos, I can choose to have a flag set with a heuritic I created myself that will tell me:

"Having 5 oreos means you need to reduce other calorie intake by n calories to maintain your BMI"

That data can also be aggregated to give me my macro/micros for everything I've eaten etc... without me having to log it like I do now

Think about it as the ultimate personal assistant and all you need to do to instrument it is attaching a camera and mic to your face. You can decide what your goals are, and this kind of instrumentation will capture the data that you need without you having to actually annotate everything.

Your personal life API

> all you need to do to instrument it is attaching a camera and mic to your face

It's funny that this is a reasonable thing to say.

Likewise, if we go back to 1995, and tell a tech-fearing farmer that within 20 years he and all his salt-of-the-earth colleagues would soon be voluntarily (and gladly!) carrying in their back pocket (in the form of a cell phone) a small cheap generic device connected 24/7 to global corporate networks, with built-in high def cameras, microphones, location detectors, and data gatherers, and would casually store much of their personal and financial information within them.

They would find that notion preposterous. But now, some short years later, they would give it barely a thought.

It really is.

I've been in CV since 2009 and it's face melting how many things we thought were impossible are effectively "solved."

I've been thinking about doing this for a while now, cameras all over the house hooked up to ML algorithms that help you audit and tweak your behavior towards some specified goal.

When I used to play video games ultra competitively, I would analyze recordings of my gameplay to try and get better, and it worked wonders.

I've honestly thought about recording my work sessions to do the same thing. RescueTime works _somewhat_ to track when I get distracted on something, but moreso I'm interested in identifying when I do something suboptimally and playing it back to identify why I went with that path and try to course-correct the next time around.

Recording the desktop 24/7 and making those videos searchable could be an incredible tool as well. Text on screen as well as audio from meetings. If you didn't document how you initially configured something, you could just go back and watch what you did.

Edit: Another comment has informed me of rewind.ai, which does this on Mac, interesting!

I think the oreo thing is probably doable now with things like habitaware. It’s most likely a very easily distinguishable motor pattern. Not sure they could be programmed to give you an oreo-specific-reminder, but that’s a design gap more than it is a technological one.

I'd just get really annoyed at that AI

...being annoyed increases stress, which increases appetite

Ok, then have it do something else?

The point here is, you could have it do anything you choose

...or just don't all together in which case, why comment?

Sounds like a nightmare!

Perhaps the BMI/Food tracking example isn't one that resonates with you

Can you explain a bit more about what part of having a non-intermediated "personal API" (or whatever you'd call it) is nightmarish?

Another challenge is industry-wide bad security fundamentals.

Godspeed to work/people like agoric.com and seL4.

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