Alter Ego

Check out the AI Foundation. Subbarao Kambhampati, a former president of AAAI, is the Chief AI Officer. “The AI Foundation’s mission is to responsibly move the world forward by giving each of us our own AI that shares our personal values and goals.”

I’ve had a notion of an AI “avatar” or “alter ego” for a long time, though I’ve never taken it very far. It appeals to me in part because it seems a natural application of constraints. Of course, everything does 🙂 but we each have our own likes, dislikes, etc., which might be modeled as (hard or soft) constraints. I’ve alluded to this briefly in these ‘grand challenge’ papers:

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