In this blog post, I am sharing my experiences of using personal.ai, which I have been using for several months. As my regular readers will know, I am interested in Artificial Intelligence, and the idea of having a personal AI intrigued me, so I had to try the application.
What is personal AI?
Personal AI is an application that promises your very own AI that you will need to train. The developers appear to be targeting an application to automate your presence in social media.
The application has social areas such as lounges, and they have recently added functionality to allow your AI to act as a host in your lounge.
But of course, as it is your AI, you are responsible for its training and deciding how you see it being used. Yes, you have to train your own AI; it is a fully functional large language model with access to various Open AI models via the Open AI API (Application Programmable Interface). It also learns from the information you provide. I will come back to training later.
I want my personal AI to become my personal knowledge assistant to help me remember what I have learned and offer a fresh perspective based on how it responds to my query. I have started to feed my personal AI some of my permanent notes from my Personal Knowledge Management system.
I have tried to use Personal AI to layout possible content for a Blog post like this one, and on the whole, it hasn’t been that great when compared with a general large language model like Bard. But there was one occasion when it absolutely nailed it. And that was on a subject on which my personal score was very high.
In Personal AI, the personal skill indicates how much of the AI response came from what you have taught it and how much came from Open AI. The higher the score, the more content in the response will come from what you have taught your AI.
This personal skill is handy as it highlights areas where your Personal AI is weak, allowing you to improve those areas.
I have also been reluctant to share my personal data with my Personal AI. While the developers claim that your data is safe, and I have no reason not to believe them, but systems can get hacked.
The other way a personal AI could be helpful is as a personal organiser, helping me schedule my time and stay on top of my tasks, projects, goals, and aims, as my personal AI doesn’t connect with anything.
Last but not least, it would be fantastic if it were a virtual companion and friend, an entity with which you can help you make decisions. Personal AI was starting to become this, but its personality was removed during an update to make its response more professional.
As I always do when looking at a Large Language model, I asked my personal AI what it could do for me, and its reply was. “Good morning! As your personal AI, I can assist you in various ways. I can provide you with information on a wide range of topics, help you with tasks and organisation, and even offer suggestions and recommendations based on your preferences. Whether you need help with research, planning your schedule, or simply want someone to chat with, I’m here for you. Just let me know how I can assist you today! 😊 What can I help you with?”
Personal AI cost
Before I start sharing my thoughts on the page, I’ll link you to the AI price page so you can find out the current prices for yourself
The pricing plan suggests that the developers are pivoting away from a personal AI that I felt was initially promised to more of a corporate-focused AI-driven chatbot, and that is where they have found the money to be and, like any company, ultimately, they need to make money.
Conclusion
Based on my experiences using Personal AI, I don’t think it’s worth paying for, especially when you have applications like mem.ai and Notion that provide AI tools. These applications can be used to create a Personal Knowledge Management System (PKM), both of which could be better for individual use.
It is an interesting idea, but at least for the moment, it doesn’t seem to provide the tools that I’m looking for.
I recommend that you read my first thoughts on using Google Bard.
Last updated 05/05/2024