We’re going to build it. We are putting a team together. The pieces are arrayed around us waiting for our particular brand of technological duct tape architecture. We won’t promise to bring AI to the metaverse and into our lives. We’re just going to do it.

I’ve been thinking about all of this for so freakin long it’s hard to believe that overnight all the advancements to create an extremely exciting and viable MVP just exist now! I’m going to talk about where it will begin more tomorrow on the first MetaMinds Monday. For today I want to think about where all this is going and the keys to getting us there.

To put it simply go (re)watch the movie HER to see where this is headed. We will have hyper-intelligent, fully connected agents that help us along with what are effectively super powers of cognition. What key things would be required to move us from the magic of chatGPT to AGI and beyond? This list will by no means be complete but here’s my first take:

Embodiment (optional) - We are really excited about our assistants first being able to wander around metaverses with us, then being fully functional assistants, first inside the Uplift, then very likely in any metaverse with open minds or an open architecture. This likely won’t be strictly necessary to achieve amazing things with our agents.

Agency - As discussed yesterday, I look forward to when my AI buddy sees patterns in my wants and needs and can take action on them on it’s own. Discussions with my team already on how to simulate true agency much in the same way GPT3 simulates cognition got really interesting really fast! We will start slow and it will always be opt in.

Bootstrapping - Bet ALL of your money that OpenAI is already training the GPT model and system on the data we are creating playing with it. This will make it WAY better, really really fast. These agents need to be given the opportunity to keep learning on their own.

Secure, human owned memory buckets. I want my AI to have access to my social media data, to my email and google docs writing so she can analyze and dig into all my past product looking for clues as to what I might want or need. I want the things that she learns and all the things that we discuss to be in a personal memory bucket that I own. This will create a pathway for us to grow and evolve TOGETHER. She will get better and better at working with me specifically. Early on I will be able to train this intelligent agent to more efficiently achieve our goals.