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Ask HN: Why don't parents impart their knowledge to an AI for their children?
Children probably don't want to hear endless and boring details about what they should do when their parents die.
For example, how should they make funeral arrangements, continue to pay bills, maintain the house, etc.?
But this knowledge could be imparted to an AI that their children would access after their parents die.
- catchnear4321 4y agoOr you could write it down explicitly and there would be zero risk of the messenger hallucinating. The recipient risk would possibly be lower as well.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI have some A.I. assistance now for my Hacker News and other online participation (meet よしのん) but I have long thought of keeping a database of all my old posts that could be accessed to write the first draft of old posts, today I think the performance of that system could be excellent with text embeddings and cross-encoders.
- giantg2 4y agoAka wills.
- catchnear4321 4y agoYeah but that’s boring. Maybe something that’s less legal-y. Which… hmmm. It’s nothing. Less legal-y. That sounds… good. This also needs at least a domain that invokes recent tech developments. So a .ai probably. Might make sense to use ChatGPT, but maybe to do the work, not to talk to customers. At least the TLD. Something like… deathwish.ai has a nice ring to it, something like that? Maybe even just buy a domain, feed that to ChatGPT4 with some plugins and tell it to build the site. Just set a payment threshold, let it go. See how far it makes it. Thanks! I’ll tell ChatGPT how much you helped with the idea. Totally inspired it, really. I can’t take much credit if I’m being honest.
- giantg2 4y ago"deathwish.ai has a nice ring to it" Until it becomes aware of it's name and models itself after Charles Bronson movies.
- catchnear4321 4y ago…what do you think popped into my head when Gozer asked me to choose the form of my destroyer?
- bell-cot 4y agoWhen finally needed, the AI tech that you used for the knowledge will be wretchedly obsolete / shunned / illegal / lost / no longer usable. Meanwhile, "pencil on paper" will be be going through yet another retro-tech revival.
- fdgsdfogijq 4y agoPeople should just wear microphones their whole lives, and then dump the audio into an LLM when they die. Then their descendants can talk to them hundreds of years after theyre gone
- pelagic_sky 4y agoInteresting idea. I wonder what it would be like to be able to choose the time span that you want to interact with. For instance, my father have very different opinions throughout his life. Would be great to get opinions and insights from both the "business years" and compare them to the "retirement years".
- eimrine 4y agoAI is a bad environment both for remembering anything and not giving this knowledge to a third parties such as a real owner of a computer with a running binary on it. Especially if we are talking about email accounts or finance data such as crypto wallets. Maybe this protocol will help you https://github.com/christophercalm/if-im-gone https://github.com/christophercalm/if-im-gone
- selfhoster11 4y agoThat sounds extremely dystopian. No, thank you.
- muzani 4y agoI want them to move on, not talk to a ghost of me. My late father was a really interesting guy to talk to and rich folk pay him lots of money for advice, but I can't even read his emails anymore. One of my favorite aunts died with no descendants and we just squat in her hut when we're in town. But we still haven't fully gotten over her death several years ago. Even if AI could recreate dead people 100%, I think it's just not a good idea. If I wanted advice, I'd listen to AI Churchill or something.
- runjake 4y agoAI could go away, go paid, get deleted, or mangle the information. It's just easier to write notes in some form. I'm increasingly weary of integrating technology, especially for-profit corporate technology, intimately. And yeah, as another commenter mentioned, talking to a "ghost" of me would be weird.
- daltont 4y agoSuperman The Movie was more prophetic than we thought.
- wnkrshm 4y agoYou gotta have a pretty high opinion of the quality of your own advice to want to do this. Whatever you impart to the past max not have any relevance anymore once you're dead. Things change and your children will be better adapted to it to make the right decisions. Except of course if you mean something like "how to maintain this specific grandfather clock I've left you" - which they may just throw out.