25 March 2025

What Do I Want AI To Do For Me?

AI does many things I don't want it to do, and doesn't do other things that I'd like it to do for me.

What do I want AI to do for me?

  1. Figure out how to presumptively tag incoming emails and put them in the right folders.
  2. Establish a style guide for me on this blog, and in my word processor, that reflects that why that I end up formatting things as a default.
  3. Automatically create citations in my standard format when a cite to articles on this blog.
  4. Remove stories about things that I don't care about, like sports other than the Olympics and my home team making it to a championship, from my news feeds.
  5. Combine all of the news stories from multiple sources about an event or topic into one story that eliminates duplication and highlights any conflicts in the accounts.
  6. Sort new physics articles that I'm unlikely to be interested in from ones that I'm likely to want to review, based upon the articles that I bookmark each day.
  7. Make a highly accurate initial guess about which bookmark folder I am going to put a page that I am bookmarking in.
  8. Retroactively sort undifferentiated old bookmarks in my bookmarks folders into more specific folders that I create later.
  9. Retroactively tag old blog posts based upon my current blog post tagging practices.
  10. Automatically create tables of contents, tables of authorities, signature blocks, generic headings, certificates of compliance, and certificates of service in legal briefs.
  11. Look on the Internet to see if a word being flagged as misspelled by a spell checker is actually a properly spelled word that simply isn't in my spelling dictionary.
  12. Configure my word processor so that fonts and formatting options and other features that I don't actually use are suppressed from the relevant menus.
  13. Scrape data I want from tables in multiple different kinds of file formats to give me the data I want, while omitting the data that I don't want.
  14. Scour my client files, emails, and the Internet to find contact information for everyone I need to contact in connection with a case into a nice, need, contact list which is kept up to date.
  15. Prepare rough drafts of time entries based upon files I've worked upon in word processing, legal research, e-filing systems, text messages, and my phone.
  16. A healthcare provider website that does a more accurate job of figuring out what care I've received, when prescriptions are obsolete, and otherwise is less glitch prone.
  17. Something that pulls all potential tax deductible expenses from my credit card records, merchant apps, and banking records.
  18. Something that automatically populates my calendar with bill payment deadlines, trash and recycling and large item pickup days, medical and dental appointments, court deadlines, dates that I've promised to do things in emails, reminders of birthdays and anniversaries and other holidays with adequate warnings to prepare for them, the day that new episodes of TV shows and comics are released, family reunions, when packages are expected to arrive, and so on.
  19. Something that takes my financial records and uses them to prepare draft budgets based upon my actual spending with suggestions for any necessary adjustments.
  20. Collect data from my scale and health records and compile it into long term weight records.

1 comment:

Joel said...

#5 would be the bomb

A lot of the personal organization ideas are close if not yet feasible for non-AI-pros at the moment.

Does having to share your data for generalized model training and marketing factor in to adopting an AI that can do these things? IMO if I could run my own standalone instance, then pushing all of my digital life's work into it for training is a no-brainer. But allowing Google, MS, etc. to ingest my own work for training and marketing, I'm not sure I'm ready to give that much access.