AI Foundation, an AI research lab that has given us our virtual Deepak Chopra and has just launched AI.XYZ, a platform to allow people to design their very own AI assistants.
Let’s hope that it’s a concrete illustration of how to live with AI instead of being exiled by AI. We’ll be more comfortable if AI assistants can take on the tasks we do every day.
According to Lars Buttler, chairman of AI Foundation, a dual nonprofit and commercial entity, AI Foundation calls it the first AI life management platform created to help people achieve a better lifestyle for busy individuals.
The platform lets users create personal AI assistants to assist them in professional and personal situations. Each AI is distinct from the person who created it. It helps with tasks like note-taking, creating emails, brainstorming, and providing individualized guidance and suggestions.
In contrast to generic AI assistants provided by companies such as Amazon, Google, Apple, and ChatGPT, each AI assistant is created on AI.XYZ is exclusive to its creator. It knows the individual’s goals and values and gives more personalized assistance. AI.XYZ sees an enormous chance for companies and workplaces to equip each one of their workers with personal AIs.
Around 83% of employees suffer from stress-related work, while seven out of 10 workers aren’t functioning to their maximum potential, According to Zippia, with AI.XYZ every person can have their proofreader, content creator, and brainstormer, saving hours and increasing productivity.
Rob Meadows, CEO of the AI Foundation, said, “Our goal is to give everyone back more time and energy to focus on the things they love – the things that make us human.” He also said that AI.XYZ does not substitute for people but instead provides each person with a personal AI active throughout the day and night to support them.
How does it work
AI.XYZ is in a public beta. It is accessible via the Internet with an invitation code. Creators can interact with their AIs via voice, text, and video. A free account with AI.XYZ lets users start making their own AI, and an upgrade to a premium membership for $20 per month provides further capabilities and options for customization.
AI Foundation AI Foundation has worked with top research institutes like the Technical University of Munich to develop “sustainable AI” for everyone. They also introduced the idea of allowing people to build their AI in 2019 through collaborations with early adopters, such as billionaires Richard Branson and Deepak Chopra and Deepak Chopra, among others. It also spun off one of its research initiatives, Reality Defender, now a deep fake detection tool backed by the government.
AI.XYZ claimed it safeguards user information and privacy while providing personalized rewards to those who created it. Each AI is trained to understand its mission and tasks that help with desirable personality traits, preferred expressions, and ideal behavior.
Creators can enhance their AI’s capabilities by document sharing, connecting to websites such as LinkedIn, and storing personal memories to refer back to later. Creators can also select what their AI will be like in appearance and voice by copying their voice and face or choosing alternatives to AI.XYZ. AI.XYZ library.
Origins
AI Foundation was started in 2017. Investors include Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Founders Fund, OVO, Endeavor, The Brandtech Group, Alpha Edison, and Correlation Ventures.
The foundation was founded as a nonprofit and remains an independent nonprofit and a commercial organization. If it discovers commercial opportunities through research and analysis, it can spin them into startups.
“Years ago, before AI was cool, we innovated in AI,” said Lars Buttler, chairman of AI Foundation, in an interview with GamesBeat.
He also mentioned that his previous company, an online game developer, Trion Worlds developed large-scale multiplayer on the cloud gaming worlds that featured more advanced AI-powered characters. The company failed. However, it did help in helping the AI Foundation team explore ways to create intelligent AI.
“The idea of creating very smart AI for (non-player characters) NPCs — your sidekicks or even a version of you — never really left me,” Buttler stated. “I have a couple of times with Rob and we opted to pursue that idea. At the time, it was not possible to use ChatGPT. AI was not a huge trend in the beginning. Today, Marc Andreessen, Bill Gates — everyone is talking about personal AI will soon be the new thing. Everyone will have their own personal AI. We decided to make this happen several years ago and develop an intriguing technology.”
In the process, AI Foundation created Reality Defender as a company for profit that can detect fakes for banks, governments, and other entities to safeguard the victims from fraud. The foundation also gained lots of attention for its digital representation of Deepak Chopra, the mindfulness and alternative therapies practitioner, Meadows said.
“But we still believe that personal AI is even more important and even bigger,” Buttler stated. “And we all know that as we deal with all the cuts and AI’s encroaching upon the jobs we do, having an AI assistant is a beneficial idea. We have spent the past few years trying to make this accessible for everyone.”
Then, massive language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT were introduced, making life much easier. The company was focused on the development of digital characters as well as natural language interfaces for conversation. This led to an announcement about AI.XYZ.
“We are now we are now capable to literally taking all these books, and any document you have, any content you have, and to literally just drop it in,” Buttler stated. “So technologically, we’ve improved quite a bit. We often use this illustration of how I study Kung Fu from The Matrix. I can teach my AI all about any topic, simply dropping it all in my own personal AI brain. This is a major advancement. It makes it much simpler to build your own AI.”