Optimizing a digital assistant to behave how I want it to?

[mech-eng]

Hello. I know some companies have digital assistants like Microsoft's Cortana or Apple's Siri. I don't know how they work but I know that they are based on AI. I have never used them, and I don't know about AI (okay, it is one of the most popular topics today). Can those assitants be optimized for ourselves?

Can I find one that will scan my files, and when I ask it a question, it will answer from my files? This would be much easier than scannin files, and be an extremely useful thing for me.

If I can learn AI, can I do one for myself?

Even better and more advanced situation would be getting it to use apps. For example, ordering it to draw a graph: "Graph the f(x)=x^2", or "open Autocad and draw the drawing file in the CAD1 folder ." or, "do a full antivirus scan" and then it will do it.

Or can it make me a quiz, asking a question and after my answer can it notify me as "No, you are wrong, what you say violates the second law of thermodynamics, and your calculation is wrong, you didn't take into account heat transfer from boundaries and the amount of heat generated inside the system. Correct way is ... "

Are these possible things?

 

[Vanadium 50]

No.

 

[FactChecker]

It is not nearly possible now. In a few decades, there is no telling how far it can go. On the other hand, we have suffered from 50 years of overhyped AI. Your guess is as good as anyone's.

 

[phinds]

If I can learn AI, can I do one for myself?

If you spent several years learning AI (an optimistic estimate) and then have a few hundred thousand man hours to devote to programming it, you would be off to a good start. I don't mean you would likely FINISH it in that amount of time but you would be off to a good start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa

As of November 2018, Amazon had more than 10,000 employees working on Alexa and related products.

 

[FactChecker]

@phinds :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa

As of November 2018, Amazon had more than 10,000 employees working on Alexa and related products.

And the stupidity of Alexa can be astounding. Often, when I add something to my Alexa shopping list, it tells me "I added it to your list. You can find it in your Alexa apt."
Two questions:
1) Why does Alexa think I put it on the list if I didn't know that I could read it?
2) After telling me that about 10,000 times, does Alexa think I still don't know it?

 

[phinds]

And the stupidity of Alexa can be astounding.

Also, you often have to articulate rather carefully or it will ignore you or say something like "I don't get that"