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Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by kridsdale3 »

jawilson2 wrote: post #128
cgearhart wrote: post #43

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Out of curiosity, do you have other ideas or things you want it to do? It just seems like they always converge on the same set of executive tasks because they’re a nail that is exceptionally well suited to this particular hammer.

Take a picture of my son's printed basketball calendar and add it to my shared iCloud family calendar. Apple/Siri couldn't do it, Claude couldn't do it. Things STILL can't talk to each other, seemingly intentionally. My wife and tried over the summer. I told her Claude+Siri could do this in 30s, and she would try by hand. 20 minutes later she was done adding each event manually, and I still couldn't get beyond trying…

If you had done this on a Mac, it would have worked just fine. The failure in your chain is iOS Calendar not being an intent handler for ICS files.

Another way you could have solved it would be to have the Google Workspace connection set up in the backend for Claude and it would write the parsed events to your account directly. Then in iOS you could move the events to the iCloud Family Calendar.

Or again, if you did this on a Real Computer, you could bulk-move them.

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Post by warkdarrior »

addandsubtract wrote: post #173
ihumanable wrote: post #116

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I liked how in the example here it tells the user "Your flight is delayed 2hrs due to storms in Denver..." Then says "checking alternate routes" then shows them a card with their original flight details (it does have "Delayed" in red at the top) and asks them if they would like to change their flight. The user responds with "Yes please! :thumbsup:" The AI does not provide any information about the new flight, and onl…

Which airline lets you change flights?! Is this an NA thing?

Most airlines let you change flights, usually for a fee plus the difference in fares. The fee may be zero if your original ticket allows it -- sometimes called "flexible fare."

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Post by kridsdale3 »

ryandrake wrote: post #168
dools wrote: post #91

I love how the marketing departments of these things always imagine people are just constantly plagued by the hassle of organising their flights, restaurant bookings and movie tickets

If you want to know why Silicon Valley Execs think these are such huge pain points, think about what Silicon Valley Execs farm out to their armies of personal assistants. Some Senior Vice President guy probably has a lot of restaurant bookings and would forget them if they didn't have a PA to help organize them. AI itself is a product that could only come from the mind of a corporate executive: It's a cheerful, helpf…

An employee who doesn't draw a salary is called something else.

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Post by bigyabai »

asveikau wrote: post #15
ieie3366 wrote: post #11

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Hahaha most Meta product users don't even know what Meta is

Yes, the fact that they renamed from Facebook helps them buy some time before people figure it out. But they don't feel good about the company.

How much time? 5 years? 10 years? 100 years?

The average user doesn't make principled decisions around what hardware they use, the software they buy or the services they use. We have billions of Chinese phones and Windows laptops as proof of that. You can give them decades to make a healthier choice, and they'll still go back to use Meta properties if it gives them what they want.

HN users are a tiny minority of social media users, and I think it's easy to buy the fallacy that our privacy-obsessed outlook is the norm. But much like YouTube or X, there will be people defending these dumpster fires until their final breath because it's what they want. We can't stop them any more than I can make you quit using HN.

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Post by DenisM »

dools wrote: post #91

I love how the marketing departments of these things always imagine people are just constantly plagued by the hassle of organising their flights, restaurant bookings and movie tickets

The original selling point of mobile web (tiny screen with text-only data, before real mobile web) on mobile phones or even watches was checking stock prices and weather. It was really weird that checking stock prices was something you need to do on the go, especially from the watch.

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Post by melasadra »

darksaints wrote: post #203
elisbce wrote: post #187

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Why are all the seemingly smart people on HN so narrow-minded to the point of speaking idiotic nonsense? What do you think their 3.6B MAU are, all bots?

Based on what passes for “engagement” and “content” on their platforms, I’d estimate that a majority of their users are exactly that.

So my country has somewhere between 100-200 million MAU for facebook ane.

Facebook marketplace is huge here.It's basically our craigslist. Hobby groups/communities are also huge. If I wanted to find the local jogging or chess club, I'd use Facebook.

Just remember that outside your bubble there's a whole wide world with billions of people living in it

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Post by jamesgpearce »

modeless wrote: post #17

Does anyone else remember "Facebook M"? In 2015 Facebook (not yet renamed to Meta) launched a personal assistant named simply "M" that lived in Messenger and functioned remarkably like ChatGPT does today. At the time it was basically entirely humans on the backend, with the idea that they could replace humans incrementally as they collected data. Really ahead of its time. They shut it down in 2018, which seems shorts…

That was to be the voice control for the Portal smart speaker before we integrated Alexa.

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Post by digitaltrees »

hazelnut wrote: post #145
declan_roberts wrote: post #14

"With its own browser" I can't even begin to comprehend what kind of personal and PII data this thing will be scraping from its users. Caveat emptor!

"Your data is safe with us, trust me bro" /s

Want anyone at Harvards personal info?

How do you have that?

I dont know they trust me because they are stupid.

The fact that this conversation is public and anyone uses meta garbage is what's wrong with so many things

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