Artificial Intelligent Agents — The super intelligent copy of yourself
The common sense about AI — it is all about data. The more data you collect the better your AI will work. This is hard and building AI models is expensive. The better option is AI designs AI including to generate more valuable data. Artificial Intelligence will be scalable and business models evolve. Is it that easy? Or is AI not only about data but rather on decision making?
Imagine you have your personal AI Agent at work which you share your tasks and your knowledge with. It helps you through the day and supports you in any questions building knowledge up throughout the time. Your AI Agent learns from you day by day how to do your work, saves your knowledge for the company. Thus whenever you decide to change your job your knowledge stays. A huge advantage for your company but what does it mean for yourself. The better your agent gets the more replaceable you as a human will become. And even more frightening: The AI starts training other AI Agents and shares the knowledge — the exchange with other AIs creates the ultimate knowledge machine. Creating the super intelligent copy of yourself. No doubt — our jobs will change in future.
We can just be scared now and close our eyes but is it not far more valuable to think about it in a more opportunistic way. AI agents can support us. They take over the work which we don´t enjoy especially the repeatable parts. We have more time for the work we love and get rid of the work we don´t enjoy. Wouldn´t it be fantastic?
Benjamin Joffe, Managing partner from Hax, the No1 early stage investor in the hardware sector compares the situation with the fourth industrial revolution: “There are a lot of jobs we don´t want to do — they are dangerous, dirty and sometime very tiering. Society will adjust over time like in the other industrial revolutions before. First we did everything by hand and then we did everything by machines. There was some transition time — however eventually we settled in a situation where we think it is better because we
don´t do this jobs anymore.”

How long will be the transition time in the digital age? Everything feels very unfamiliar because we can´t imagine how the future will look like and it is happening very fast. But one thing for sure: The innovation cycles became much shorter — from decades to years to months depending on the respective industries.
The scenario is not somewhere in the future in fact we already work with AI every day to make our life easier — Bots start to answer our Emails, Siri, Google Now, and Cortana help us to find useful information when we ask for example “Where’s the nearest Chinese restaurant?”, “What’s on my schedule today?”, “Remind me to call Susan at seven o’clock”. The assistant will respond by finding information, relaying information from your phone, or sending commands to other apps.
The personal AI agent will only be the enhancement of what we already have.
It can help us to make wise decisions providing all important data instantly to us. It can save our life by detecting the risk for a heart attack 30 min before it happens, analyzing the signs of our body upfront and warn us. We live healthier because we are not stressed out day by day because our copy takes over a fair part of our job only to name a few possible applications.
But there are also some questions we need to answer — who owns the knowledge, the data of our AI agents. Is it de facto the company we work for who owns the data, is there a central knowledge hub for all of us where we share our knowledge or does it belong to us and we decide with whom we want to share it with. How do we protect our personal data — the brain can´t be hacked (yet) but our copy will be a treasured target.
In the end the opportunity to create a super intelligent copy of ourselves is an exciting development and an inspiring way to think about how we may work in the future. Whatever will bring the future into our working life the human and personalized touch will stay. And that´s what can´t get copied.
