alt Hacker NewsHappily, current AI is interacted with in a reactive loop. I open the Claude app, CLI, whatever, say my prompt, get an output.
I personally wanted an AI that was able to reach out to me about my life before I had to reach out to it. An example, a friend just emailed me asking to meet for at 1pm but I have class at 1:30, so a proactive AI would see that conflict and send me a notification about it, asking if the proposed email it drafted works, then I press send.
My personal setup tracks my mouse movement, keyboard, what’s on my screen, and keeps track of what I’m working on through files on my PC. It can update the backend and then restart it on it’s own, meaning I can develop the thing itself while being away from my PC.
The capabilities are more than what I’ve listed, but I want to avoid being too preachy about something I made. Here’s the repo if you wanted to take a look, it’s open-source and connects to the iPhone app:
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> An example, a friend just emailed me asking to meet for at 1pm but I have class at 1:30, so a proactive AI would see that conflict and send me a notification about it, asking if the proposed email it drafted works, then I press send.
I don't mean to downplay your work, but I think you should come up with a better example use case. Automating away interactions with friends is pretty much the last thing I want AI to do.
I'm very interested in this kind of thing as a kind of ADHD brain augment, like it's monitoring my slack, github, email, calendar, active terminals, etc, and helps me prioritize what I should work on as well as weighing whether this or that ping is worth interrupting me for.
I assumed that's what openclaw basically was, but is Orb different from that? And is it fundamentally a different model from the request/response, or is it just request/response in an autonomous loop?
How does this differ from Hermes / Openclaw / Vellum?
What’s so innovative to send an auto message every x time or based on events: “wake up and check if you got anything to do”.
OR
“Event x happened at y time”
>> Curious what you mean by proactive? Could you share a bit more?
> Happily, current AI is interacted with in a reactive loop. I open the Claude app, CLI, whatever, say my prompt, get an output.
"Current AI" is not limited to LLM offerings. There are many AI algorithms which can assist in what you specify thusly:
> I personally wanted an AI that was able to reach out to me about my life before I had to reach out to it.
Consider a forward chaining inference engine ("expert system") provided with relevant asynchronous percepts from the deployed environment to reason about. This could serve as an initiator of a "proactive AI".