I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference

I actually think this is where the first &quot;general intelligence&quot; AIs will come from: people will train AIs to be them. It will start out running little bits of our lives, but eventually you&#x27;ll be able to take whole days off with AI you doing your job.<p>I read a short story about this... a neural implant that starts off in passive mode, learning to be you, and then you switch it over to active mode at some point and you are it.<p>Interestingly, this makes an end-run around the whole &quot;what if AIs have power but no morals?&quot; question... the first AIs will have human morals because they&#x27;ll be clones of humans.

&gt;Using her authority gave it enough power to get the team gather up for a call.<p>This is why I think the slackbots OP wrote were so effective. When you give a bot a name like MeetingBot it&#x27;s easy to ignore the notifications. However when the bot carries authority of a manager or team member it&#x27;s harder to ignore.

Reminds me of a quote&#x2F;thought (I don&#x27;t recall the original source): The worst waste of time is to improve (automate) something that doesn&#x27;t need to be done.<p>I&#x27;ve been there myself. I was asked to deliver to email a report that anyone could get at any time by opening a browser, but they wanted an email instead (their communication path - if our office used IM&#x2F;Slack more, I can easily see them wanting that instead of the email).

&gt; I launched it on Monday morning and waited for the laughs. &gt; But nobody noticed.<p>I should imagine that&#x27;s one of the biggest insults anyone could receive. Woah.

I can&#x27;t help but think that this is what Google Wave was supposed to be. But Slack is what actually enabled people to build little bots like this for everything.

In Frank Herberts Dune, the fremen walk without rhythm to avoid the great sand worms. I wonder if, not too far away from now people will begin intentionally varying their intonations and body language randomly to avoid detection...