Get an AGENT! They can do anything better than you.

 So much talk of AI agents, super chatbot spinoffs that can actually do things for you, pay your bills, grocery shop, run your research project, scratch your back. AI mavens are inventing and hawking them like crazy. 

I'm ready to go. I've been thinking what kind of help I need here around the farm. I just have to think about where I could use a little help.  

The agents I want:

Agent 1: Teenager. A full service phone and app consultant that doesn’t think old people suck. 

Agent 2: MIT Masters degree computer scientist with powerful layman communications skills and endless patience. It can get me out of any computer pickle, spitspot. It assumes administrator/owner powers and fixes problems that confound me.

Agent 3: MBA accountant.  Reads all letters and documents from our investments. Makes suggestions. Keeps all our financial records. Files our taxes.

Agent 4: Newsy. Stays up to the minute on agents and AI in general. And on science broadly. It prepares summary reports with any degree of depth I request.

Agent 5: Doc. Tracks all things health. Keeps detailed tabs on my bod, communicates with my human docs, tracks my meds, supplements and diet. Gives me holistic reports on how I’m doing and what I should do more/less of.

Agent 6: Social Director. Helps me be less of a hermit. Nudges me to call people, write notes, have a party, etc. I need a lot of help in all that.

My agents will have access to all of my devices and can assume proprietary controls and privileges with my approval. They can access my files, my correspondence, my contemplation and cogitations. They keep me informed on what they are doing and how they might better work with me and one another for improved effectiveness. All together the six agents constitute a small firm of experts with totally clean reputations, and I am their only client. I’ll call them The Firm. Original.

The Firm agents will all live on my devices, desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, glasses, earbuds, pendant, watch, ring, the cloud… I hope in total security. (HAR!) But I need more.

Almost as much as I need The Firm I need a HANDYBOT. Physical, mobile, capable, and not scary. We live on 21 acres of mid-altitude mountain ridge -- 7400 ft altitude. Ponderosas, junipers, pinyon, scrub oak and some meadow. There are a good number of maintenance and improvement tasks that need a good strong hand. I'll name Handybot Lucas.

So Lucas will be a Chinese anthrobot (all I can afford) that drives all vehicles flawlessly, carries heavy sacks of birdseed, lays paver stones, patches stucco, paints outbuildings, moves hoses, splits firewood, traps gophers, wheelbarrows gravel, changes tires, mounts chains, cleans chimneys, thins trees, feeds ravens… and such. It’s intelligence quotient is highest in learning how to do common tasks better and safer.

Now I’m fixed. I'm agentified. 

That’s one.

I still like the sci-fi idea of one man managing thousands of agents all working 24/7 to accomplish what the hell ever the man is doing. Eeeek.

Interesting times, Scooter Pie.