In the past, rich people had horses, while ordinary people walked. Today many ordinary people can afford a car. Can afford a tasty food every day. Can afford a sizeable living place. Can afford to wash two times a day with hot water. That's incredible life by medieval standards. Even kings didn't have everything we take for granted now.
However some things are not available to us.
One of those things is personal assistant. Today, rich people can offload their daily burdens to the personal assistants. That's a luxury service. I think, AI will bring us a future, where everyone will have access to the personal assistant, significantly reducing time spent on trivial not fun tasks. I think, this is great and I'm eager to live in that future. The direction of ChatGPT Pulse looks like that.
Another things we don't have cheap access to are human servants. Obviously it'll not happen in the observable future, but humanoid robots might prove even better replacements.
To be fair most people don’t have as complicated a life that they really need a personal assistant. How much would it really save you per day? 30 min? I mean that’s not nothing but it’s not revolutionary either. And of course there is the principal-agent problem so it’s not always a strict upgrade.
For example, at my work people managers get admin assistants but most ICs do not, even at the same level. I think it’s fine, the value for me would be very low and I doubt it’s a good use of company resources.
I could really benefit from a personal assistant because I basically have no executive functioning my mind. However, I would likely only benefit from having a human assistant because humans are harder to ignore than the nth automated notification I receive on a daily basis.
All great, but what happens when personal assistant makes you think you are acting in your best interest, but actually they are just manipulating you to do 'something' OpenAi (some company) wants you to do?
Without proper ways of migrating 'your data' between AI's (platforms), you are in mercy of that assistant without any other alternatives.
Thats why GDPR and CPRA laws are becoming even more important in age of AI assistance.