Comment by aaronbaugher

Exactly. To be a useful assistant, it has to be more proactive than they're currently able to be.

Someone posted here about an AI assistant he wrote that sounded really cool. But when I looked at it, he had written a bunch of scripts that fetched things like his daily calendar appointments and the weather forecast, fed them to an AI to be worded in a particular way, and then emailed the results to him. So his scripts were doing all the work except wording the messages differently. That's a neat toy, but it's not really an assistant.

An assistant could be told, "Here's a calendar. Track my appointments, enter new ones I tell you about, and remind me of upcoming ones." I can script all that, but then I don't need the AI. I'm trying to figure out how to leverage AI to do something actually new in that area, and not having much luck yet.