DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.::DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat. In a recent conversation I had with him, he told me that generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry out tasks you set for them by calling on other software…
Right, I’ll trust a complex AI to take charge of my other apps.
“I want to send a text to my mother”
“WAIT NO”
The tech enthusiast in me likes the idea. The IT professional however is very sceptical of trusting software to that extent.
Hell, I feel a sting of uncertainty every time I use inter-app interfaces on Android. Sure, I know how it’s supposed to work, and often enough it does, but the error rate and fragmentation of standards are still too high for me to have enough faith that somehow an AI would circumvent that. We see purpose-built machines like Tesla’s autopilot fail dramatically, much less an ambitious multi-function tool.
The above example may be strongly exaggerated, but the wealth of side effects and weird interactions between different human-made and thus typically inherently flawed tools concerns me. It’s hard, probably even impossible, to predict all the potential mishaps.
I want to believe and I hope we’ll reach a level of maturity and QA standards where I can trust it. I like the idea. I’m an excited pessimist who would like nothing more than to be wrong.
I thought I was the only one worried about that
Of course you’re going to be right at first and very wrong in the long run.