A new kind of intelligent software agent called a personal sim is the most empowering and intimate form of AI on the horizon. We’ll soon be using sims that model our interests, goals, and values in their knowledge bases, and which act as our assistants and digital interfaces to the world. We will need to build and raise our sims and their knowledge bases well, with love and care, as they will be central to how billions of us live our lives in the 2020s and beyond.

For more, see my series on Smart Agents on Medium, https://medium.com/@johnsmart/your-pe...

Recorded by Bob Yen at BIL LA, 2 Apr 2016.