I Don't Need an AI Assistant. I Need Fewer Emails.
When Meta’s Muse came in September, it made some people very excited. Here was the product we had been promised all along: something that touches everyday people’s everyday lives. Writing all the code and solving all the impossible math problems was fine and all, as was chasing super intelligence, which we could only hope wouldn't erase humanity from the face of the earth. What was in it for the average person in all these?
So yeah, Muse came along and offered to be our digital housekeeper and personal assistant, in exchange for access to all our data (if there's any left) and permission to take actions on our behalf. It could unsubscribe us from long-forgotten subscriptions and newsletters we never open, or optimize whatever needs optimizing in our inboxes and calendars.
Well, I don't know about you, but what I need isn't a digital assistant, or even a human one for that matter. What I need is less email in my inbox. If my calendar has become too overwhelming to manage on my own, maybe that doesn't mean I need an AI agent. Maybe it means I need fewer things to do in the first place.
I'm not a Fortune 500 CEO, give me a break.