I was musing late last year while reading Twitter and it’s vitriol and also thinking about privacy that a likely future would be people using a stable of custom

I was musing late last year while reading Twitter and it’s vitriol and also thinking about privacy that a likely future would be people using a stable of custom AI assistants as a prophylactic for the web. Have them participate in conversations, maybe even talk amongst themselves. Give them particular interests or focus. You could for instance build one for your children. It could grow with them and they could fork it as needed. Then when old enough or whatever go hit the straight uncut gnarly internet. This could also lead to a less restrictive natural user interface. It would be a huge boon for accessibility. Seems inevitable to me. I’ve been building things that fall in line with this idea for a couple years now and it didn’t really dawn on me that that was the case. I’ve got a Max Headroom VRM puppet, some text to speech, and a GPU accelerated kubeflow stack. As that progresses I’ll probably be blogging about it in a month. Or maybe he will. Who knows.