by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve played with Hume AI some and it’s pretty cool. I like how it allows you to natively interact with the AI using voice commands. It’s not perfect — the synching in the conversation can be a bit unnatural at times — but, in general, it gives us a glimpse of a “Her” movie type future.
Now, obviously, all the other AIs out there will co-opt this feature soon enough. But it is fun to talk out a problem — especially problems I may have with my novel — with someone who at least is programmed to care.
I do think that things like Hume AI give us a glimpse into the near, near future. It definitely seems as though something between the 1987 Apple Knowledge Navigator and Same in “Her’ is going to be popularized in months, rather than years.
We just aren’t prepared for the implications of such technological advancements. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see a future whereby the entire knowledge economy — especially the arts — is totally and completely disrupted to a surreal extent.
Things could be so disrupted that the far Left and the far Right may fused into some sort of modern day Luddite movement. A lot will depend on, of course, what happens with the 2024 election. Just a back-of-the-envelope estimation can tell you that the 2024 election could be the most important election in American history since the Civil War.
Anyway. Hume AI definitely points us to a future where we no longer passively use browsers to interact with the Web, but rather talk to AI personal assistants who know us so well that they can our questions even before we ask them.
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