Ambient Intelligence is the phrase a lot of people are searching for when talking about this stuff. There&#x27;s also a bunch of stuff about Second-order Cybernetics and Adaptive and Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems people should seek out and read.<p>I&#x27;ve co-opted some terms and am now speaking of this as Second-order IoT. Where previously we were concerned about our personal networks and systems, this next wave will be concerned about how these systems work together and enlist one another to carry out some task or contract autonomously. Chaining these contracts is where the cool stuff comes in. Observing and influencing these systems and letting them create efficient networks on our behalf is the reason we should be building this.<p>Agents are what people are talking about when discussing bots, and agents are basically the AI program that can conscript if not completely become part of the operating service on a device. Like little plug &#x27;n play souls that carry along information about you and what you need within some context.<p>For instance, when you step out of your autonomous vehicle, it can use a service (Playa) to look up physical interfaces offering recharging. It will be able to negotiate and transact a recharge on your behalf, then contract itself out to an uber-like service while you sleep to help pay for itself.<p>I&#x27;m building the infrastructure&#x2F;platform to support all of this, giving rise to a fully autonomous global logistics and supply chain -- I call it Playa (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getplaya.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getplaya.com&#x2F;</a>) It&#x27;s at first an open service exchange (marketplace) for autonomous intelligent agents to learn from us, and act on our behalf with other services and agents (both digital and physical). - If Artificial General Intelligence is the ruler, then Playa is its throne.<p>Here is the project site <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getplaya.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getplaya.com&#x2F;</a> and here is our Baqqer site if anyone wants to sign up and follow our progress: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;baqqer.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;playa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;baqqer.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;playa</a><p>We&#x27;ve also started a meet-up group in San Francisco if you want to learn more: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;sfaiml&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;sfaiml&#x2F;</a><p>If you&#x27;re interested in building this vision of the future, please reach out. I&#x27;m happy to grab a coffee in San Francisco and chat more about the current state as well as long term social and political implications of this if you&#x27;d like.