Parr: AI software will track screens and speech to give direct feedback
Sam Parr · Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Questions That Will Change Your Life · Jan 3, 2025 · at 24:59
Sam Parr discusses emerging ambient AI tracking software that monitors user devices and conversations to act as an automated executive coach.
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“Well, the next step of that is here's what's going to happen. There's going to be software. It probably exists. And I'm tinkering with a few of them that records your computer screen, your phone screen, the words that you say out loud, the things you type. And it's going to give you feedback on how you spent your day. It's going to give you feedback on what to do, things like that. So it's going to like, you know how they, there's a book. I forget what the book is, but the premise is Google knows more than you because you are more honest in your Google searches than you are when you talk to your spouse or your friends or whatever. The same thing happens where it's like, yeah, you know, I spend this much time working on this, and this. And I just be like, no, you did not spend that much time doing it. And also you told me that you're trying to be nicer. You wrote like eight really mean emails. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's how it's going to be in the next six months. I think there's going to be products like that that are actually nailing that.”
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