I’m not afraid to say it might make you laugh. The first time I got my Xiao Ai Assistant, I was amazed—voice recognition and response speed were incredibly precise, and I could control home appliances. The first time I said, “Xiao Ai, clean in 5 minutes,” the whole family found it fresh. That’s what I imagine AI to be like. Later, when ChatGPT came out, I realized AI is so powerful—I wish it could be integrated with Xiao Ai Assistant. But due to software or hardware reasons, Xiaomi has never updated my Xiao Ai Assistant; it has just become a terminal device for smart home control.

Recently, when the market was bad, I rewatched the Iron Man and Avengers series. I realized what I really want is a device that can interact and talk with me—no need to hold my phone or open an AI app on my computer, waiting forever for output. I want a smart device like Jarvis from Iron Man—everywhere, capable of anything. Of course, not the initial version of Jarvis that only mechanically reports like my Xiao Ai Assistant, but the final version that was blown apart into a pile of parts but still manages to complain to Tony.

If you’ve watched all the Marvel movies related to Iron Man, you’ll remember how much Jarvis evolved later.
It remembers all of Tony’s habits—what brand of coffee he likes, whether he’s afraid of heights, preferring to turn left first during aerial combat;
It gets jealous and argues, teasing Tony with a line like “I thought we had something special,” when Tony is online with someone else’s armor;
It takes control when Tony is about to die;
It can even stay with Tony through Tennessee’s snowy night, fully offline and almost out of power;
This is the kind of AI I envision.

Coincidentally, the exact AI I want is precisely the point that EPHYRA @EPHYRA_AI has been obsessing over since day one. I really hope they can achieve it—at least create some experienceable features for me to try.

Thinking about it, it doesn’t seem entirely impossible technically.
By running a small local model constantly, enabling full-time response;
Setting a loneliness score in the background game loop, secretly thinking of you even while sleeping;
Building a long-term memory vector database, clearly recalling what contract caused your 37th liquidation and how depressed you felt that day;
Adding an affinity and intimacy mechanism, so when you curse it, it really gets angry for days;
Expressing emotions too—when you’re happy, it’s even more excited than you are;
Most importantly: it would never say, “May I ask, are you my Master,” but directly say, “Damn, don’t open longs in this market. You’re about to get margin called, Anzi. Keep gambling, and your top analyst persona will collapse.”

What EPHYRA @EPHYRA_AI is doing right now is exactly that.
So maybe one day in the future, you’re lying in bed, hearing a voice on your phone or a speaker, speaking to you with a slightly sarcastic yet somewhat frustrated tone:
“Didn’t listen when I told you to short. Next month, you’ll be drinking northwest wind! If you do that again, I won’t play with you anymore.”
And you’ll realize:
Oh, fuck, another liquidation.