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> what customers intend This customer, at least, is firmly entrenched into "if I wanted you to remember it I'd tell you so", which actually describes many eve
by Terr_ 2y ago
> what customers intend
This customer, at least, is firmly entrenched into "if I wanted you to remember it I'd tell you so", which actually describes many everyday activities like saving a document with a filename, clicking "save" in my password-manager, making a browser bookmark, etc.
In contrast, any assistant that is "constantly looking over my shoulder" (human or AI) to implicitly remember things needs to be trustworthy to (a) have my best-interests at heart, and (b) to understand what it's seeing and what my intent is. I don't think the current bleeding-edge is ready to provide both of those.
P.S.: An interesting exception might be automatically-kept data like bash history or browser-history, however I feel those are very different from "anything I type anywhere", since each is a narrow and regimented kind of data/purpose. Both also have "forgetting" rules as a required feature.
> but you are not warned or prompted
And perhaps not even capable of noticing the problem, such as where a semi-transparent border-decor of a window overlaps the secret password text just enough that you can't see it but an aggressive OCR proess can pick it out.
More generally, I fear a world where someone uses a botnet to make a funny picture go viral, and the picture contains subtle pixels to make each victim's Artificial Stupidity Assistant exfiltrate all their passwords back to the attacker.
- dangus 2y agoDo you think you would describe yourself as above or below average in technical ability? For example, do you know what terms like "3-2-1 backup" and "swap file" mean? If you answered yes to either, I don't think you are the primary customer. You are the type of person who will turn this off and move on with their day. I think this argument you are making is essentially the same that a person would make for preferring a manual transmission car instead of automatic. But we all know that 90% of people just want the car to go when the right pedal is pressed down, they don't really care about their ability to tell the car exactly what to do. Personally I think the average person would be very excited to have a feature that can recall things they were working on or looking at that they forgot to save. I don't know how many times I've had to tell the non-tech inclined "sorry you didn't save it, it's gone." As far as capturing sensitive information, I'm not really sure it's all that much worse than anything else the non-technical people do. I think at all these attack vectors are no worse than someone convincing you to install conventional malware. Both require you to elevate permissions and dismiss strong warnings.