On AI: cheating on everything

A Columbia student raised 5 million dollars for inventing an AI that sits in on job interviews and gives you the answers to any question that comes your way. It also researches the interviewer, institution, and context.

Once the company found out about his tech (he posted it online), they rescinded their offer and demanded Columbia discipline him. They suspended him.

Days later, he had a multi-million dollar company and an ad for wearable glasses with the slogan “Cheat on everything.”

The ad follows a man making a mistake on a date. His date gets mad, and the invisible AI agent that lives in his glasses feeds him a line from a poem that she liked on Instagram. It works.

By enabling people to spend less time doing rote tasks, AI will enable humans to be more human. But then we have to face the question — what is more human?

If we have more time to spend with each other, spend it making memorable mistakes.

Using AI to feed us the perfect things to say to each other will be useful for remembering names, birthdays, events, favorite poems, menu orders and more.

But don’t depend on it for personality.