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Re: Grok Bot

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Post by CGamesPlay »

h14h wrote: post #67

I've already been doing something very similar to this with OpenClaw, where I set up multiple different Telegram bots each with different system prompts to tune their personalty & behavior. It's not trivial to do, and I never managed to get bot-to-bot communication working. Even with my janky setup, the experience is honestly pretty great. Grok Bot simplifies the setup for this about as far as I imagine is possible,…

> I never managed to get bot-to-bot communication working.

Were you attempting to get them to message amongst themselves over Telegram, or something different?

Re: Grok Bot

#152

Post by arjie »

This looks amazing. Lots of good ideas here. The human in the loop story is quite good here. I will shamelessly lift it for myself.

Re: Grok Bot

#153

Post by theahura »

in case you are interested in ~this for your team, but dont want to either be vendor-locked to grok or give mecha-hitler extra money, consider trying what we've been building at https://noriagentic.com/ (or any of the other startups working in the same space)

Re: Grok Bot

#154

Post by aejm »

raincole wrote: post #46
pavel_lishin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wanted to make something that didn't feel like just my logo on a shirt, so I had one of my bots reach out to ~40 fabric suppliers in vietnam, negotiate prices, lock one in, and get samples made. Isn't this one of the problems foreseen with this? For you, it was a single prompt - for 40 companies, this probably took up some time. What happens when fifty people fire off a 15-second "get me a shirt" prompt? When fiv…

Isn't the answer obvious? The 40 companies will have to use AI to filter the messages too. If your business is selling tokens, it'd be extremely lucrative for you if the whole society relies on tokens to perform basic operations. That's where we're heading to.

The problem: too much AI The solution: more AI!

Re: Grok Bot

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Post by r3trohack3r »

solid_fuel wrote: post #110
pavel_lishin wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think your reply addresses the point of my comment at all, which is that people receiving messages from AI agents isn't scalable in the same way that people sending messages from AI agents is.

Funnily this whole example illustrates what everyone on the outside of the LLM psychosis train is saying. The user without empathy has managed to save 30 minutes on a task they could have done themselves anyway. The only cost was wasting the time of at least 39 other people. It’s gross.

> The user without empathy has managed to save 30 minutes on a task

One supplier ended up with a direct sale they wouldn’t have otherwise

Re: Grok Bot

#156

Post by Taek »

dgellow wrote: post #93
slg wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything is becoming wildly inefficient, all in the name of improved efficiency.

And everybody in the chain can even justify their improved efficiency! It‘s capitalism endgoal. A massive Goldberg machine, where each piece can be optimized, but overall does produce close to no value compared to its cost and effort

I have a hard time looking at the world around me and thinking "close to no value"

Re: Grok Bot

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Post by elwebmaster »

XCSme wrote: post #78
zeafoamrun wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's crazy dude, whenever we put up a job ad it's filled with thousands of LLM generated fake candidates in a few days. Looking at the examples they show here it is making more sense. Also where all the "content" on LinkedIn comes from.

Will we have any way to know if a submission was done by a human or a bot?

We are doing AI screening. Candidate works with AI for 15 minutes and session is recorded. We review real output not AI generated resume. If candidate can get AI to apply and produce meaningful output then maybe we should hire that candidate. Currently outputs are manually reviewed but easy enought to have AI screen outputs.

Re: Grok Bot

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Post by Taek »

jyrkesh wrote: post #134
aliasxneo wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only way I was able to get a job recently was via one of a few recruitment firms I was working with. Presumably this will become more common. Basically vendors "selling" actual real humans they vetted.

Would you be comfortable sharing some of the recruitment firms that you worked with? I'm a Real Live Human gearing up to reenter the job market, and I've been getting pitches for these via email and LinkedIn but my difficulty has been in knowing which of THOSE are Real Live Humans and not just vivecoded bots spamming employers with my resume on my behalf (which feels ineffective, but also more importantly, like an un…

A job faire might serve you well!

Re: Grok Bot

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Post by davidw »

agile-gift0262 wrote: post #44
jesse_dot_id wrote: post #38

I think perhaps I won't trust anything that ever gets released by this company, likely in perpetuity.

There are two companies that have lost my trust, probably forever: X and Meta. I don't see myself ever trusting anything coming out of either of these companies ever again

Meta feels more like your traditional 'greedy corporation' that's fairly amoral and as a consequence ends up doing some bad things in pursuit of more profits.

The other one feels pretty explicitly evil at this point.

Re: Grok Bot

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Post by werdnapk »

redox99 wrote: post #139
dylanhouli wrote: post #101

I feel like we'd be better off if we just stopped at chatbots...why are we so eager to make the internet even more botted

The internet sucks. Yesterday, I had my agent search for openings for The Odyssey that fit my requirements and then book them. It was way better than manually looking at seat maps for 20 different showtimes and going through 10 steps just to buy the tickets.

So why didn't you just do it manually? Why use an agent in the first place?
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