The document discusses personal assistants and how they can help decentralize and coordinate complex processes. It describes how a personal assistant could help coordinate a patient's care among different medical specialists by cloning case files, synchronizing changes, and transforming data between their differing representations to facilitate communication. The personal assistant is envisioned to one day interact with other assistants, clone and synchronize projects, and enable large scale processes to emerge from the interactions between decentralized parties.
2. An Agent is Software that:
Does something for you
Works autonomously
Directed by goals
Agents are simply part of
the current technology
infrastructure!
3. An Agent is Software that:
Does something for you
Works autonomously
Directed by goals
Apple Knowledge Navigator (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
hb4AzF6wEoc
Agents are simply part of
the current technology
infrastructure!
4. An Agent is Software that:
Does something for you
Works autonomously
Directed by goals
Instead lets call it a Personal Assistant
Apple Knowledge Navigator (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
hb4AzF6wEoc
Agents are simply part of
the current technology
infrastructure!
26. Simple Rules to Emergent Behavior
1. Bunch
2. Swoop
3. Swirl
1. Avoid hitting each
other,
2. Stay near the flock,
3. Match velocity of
neighbors.
27. Deriving Rules is Difficult or Impossible
1. Avoid hitting each
other,
2. Stay near the flock,
3. Match velocity of
neighbors.
1. Bunch
2. Swoop
3. Swirl
?
63. Cloning: copy documents & data
Confer Tests
Do
Do
Do
Primary Doctor
Meet Research Recommend
Back Specialist
PA has to bring
copies of DB
and documents
Personal
Assistant
69. Personal Assistant Can
Receive and screen notifications – filter the spam for
relevant notifications.
Task Introduction – find offered tasks, gather additional
information
Task Acceptance – sending a notice back to the sender.
Clone Project –automatically retrieve all the accessible.
Determine the Template –and start the process if necessary.
Synchronize – in both directions.
Transform Data – access the taxonomies that give the
semantic meaning of the data, and use that to transform the
data to a suitable form while synchronizing
70. Summary
In the future we might see
personal assistants interacting
with other personal assistants,
cloning & synchronizing projects,
and the large scale processes
emerging from that interaction.
