{"id":652,"date":"2020-12-17T13:52:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2020-12-22T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T01:58:18","slug":"enter-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/enter-the-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-peertube wp-block-embed-peertube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/peertube.co.uk\/videos\/watch\/73c43a3c-5432-4129-8e71-1bbb26f27074\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Siri, smart speakers, and voice-based personal assistants are approaching ubiquity and yet, <em>I&#8217;m unimpressed<\/em>. I&#8217;d rather tap for weather than ask out loud and I like to keep megacorporations at arms-length but a couple weeks ago, I imagined what my ideal AI assistant would look like and how it could help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused on the beginning of the day, I started coding in Python. Now you could ask yourself, what do you forget? Or what habit do you want to develop for which you could use some reminders? That&#8217;s pretty much what I put in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I learned from this exercise is that it&#8217;s very useful for building habits, a prompt reminded me to make this kind of post, but this also feels more user-friendly than a digital assistant that must be spoken to. There&#8217;s MyCroft for building your own, but that&#8217;s a project and again, <em>talking? Out loud?<\/em> Plus it&#8217;s more fun to hack Python than setup Raspberry Pis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m in the honeymoon period with my little script, and time management strategies tend to lose their lustre over some weeks, but I&#8217;ll be interested to see how if it sticks and how it can grow in utility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly, this feels like the beginnings of <em>merging with The Matrix.<\/em> Elon Musk recently said humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in an AI age. I don&#8217;t need a robot arm or superhuman vision, but I&#8217;ve learned a little help on the daily is actually pretty nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siri, smart speakers, and voice-based personal assistants are approaching ubiquity and yet, I&#8217;m unimpressed. I&#8217;d rather tap for weather than ask out loud and I like to keep megacorporations at arms-length but a couple weeks ago, I imagined what my ideal AI assistant would look like and how it could help. Focused on the beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}