Maybe this is the "bitter lesson of agentic decisions": hard things in your life are hard because they involve deeply personal values and complex interpersonal dynamics, not because they are difficult in an operational sense. Calling a restaurant to make a reservation is trivial. Deciding what restaurant to take your wife to for your wedding anniversary is the hard part (Does ChatGPT know that your first date was at a burger-and-shake place? Does it know your wife got food poisoning the last time she ate sushi?). Even a highly paid human concierge couldn't do it for you. The Navier–Stokes smoothness problem will be solved before "plan a birthday party for my daughter."
Well, people do have personal assistants and concierges, so it can be done? but I think they need a lot of time and personal attention from you to get that useful right. they need to remember everything you've mentioned offhand or take little corrections consistently.
It seems to me like you have to reset the context window on LLMs way more often than would be practical for that
I think it's doable with the current context window we have, the issue is the LLM needs to listen passively to a lot of things in our lives, and we have to trust the providers with such an insane amount of data.
I think Google will excel at this because their ad targeting does this already, they just need to adapt to an llm can use that data as well.
I would even argue the hard parts of being human don't even need to be automated. Why are we all in a rush to automate everything, including what makes us human?
> hard things in your life are hard because they involve deeply personal values and complex interpersonal dynamics, not because they are difficult in an operational sense
