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Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Tech is a rather minor part of the world of knowledge. How many languages do you know? Do you know the styles of Renaissance painters? Slept with super-model? Ever seen an elephant stampede? Meditated by the Ganges? Read thousands of stories? Climbed a mountain so high you need Oxygen? Tech stuff is so boring.

> Slept with super-model What's the knowledge supposedly required to attain this on your mind?

About 4 months of reading about PHP in the early 2000s?

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them, but most of the world is just... oblivious? I was discussing latest in tech with an accounting friend out of curiosity, and I kept talking about tiers of GPT-5.6 (Sol vs Terra vs Luna) and asked which one she used on the desktop 'Work'…

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Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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I think you're right, but I'd add that... if this wasn't obvious to you without being told, you should really question your worldview a bit. A lot of people think that chat.com is an AI called "chat". Most people don't know acronym "LLM". Most people don't know about the existence of companies called "OpenAI" or "Anthropic", or that they are worth a lot of money. Etc.

Even Shingy called chatgpt "chat" when he went on Ed Zitron's show. It was very weird to hear from a guy who has been around tech world for such a long time even if he's non technical.

Everyone calls it chat. I am technical and even I’ve come around to calling it that because that is what everyone, including very technical people, call the product.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them, but most of the world is just... oblivious? I was discussing latest in tech with an accounting friend out of curiosity, and I kept talking about tiers of GPT-5.6 (Sol vs Terra vs Luna) and asked which one she used on the desktop 'Work'…

It's not a bad market to aim for. No one else really is.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Ironically, one of the things I most want from an agent like Muse is to read Facebook and Instagram for me and present posts in a user-friendly and ad-free format.

Lol right? And the REAL irony is that this will likely just be a way to show you even MORE ads while collecting MORE data for MORE targeted advertising. If Muse could actually just show me content that I want to see and cut out all of the other crap, I'd be willing to use it. Of course, there's no way Zucc will pay for an expensive AI service that will undercut his main revenue stream.

How will that be possible with the Confidential VM version?

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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I think the product as shown in this marketing material with these examples falls squarely in the “nobody asked for this” territory of AI. At least with B2B AI there is a problem to be solved: reduce my labor costs and increase my business output. What’s happened here is that consumer technology is already solved, but companies like Meta are trying to jam AI technology into something that solves the non-problems that…

> I think the product as shown in this marketing material with these examples falls squarely in the “nobody asked for this” territory of AI.

I agree. The time to launch something like this would have been during the OpenClaw hype cycle (although, obviously, Muse is much more limited in the types of tasks it can accomplish).

I thought about installing it, but I realized I couldn't think of any real uses for it in my personal life.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Pretty happy with the experience of using it so far. Asked it to do something to blow me away and it made a podcast about the features it made while onboarding itself to my opensource project called DashClaw.

Then I had it make a marketing video as a test, pretty neat. Obviously all of this was doable but quite impressed with the model underneath since it's all free, for now.

https://x.com/ucsandman/status/2097498962714341661

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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You don't have to "be like" anyone but yourself. You should, however, be aware of what you know and more importantly what you do not know.

And be aware of unknown unknowns existance even if not specifics, helps uncover them

"You don't know what you don't know" has served me well in life so far.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them, but most of the world is just... oblivious? I was discussing latest in tech with an accounting friend out of curiosity, and I kept talking about tiers of GPT-5.6 (Sol vs Terra vs Luna) and asked which one she used on the desktop 'Work'…

Even with all of this nuance why would the regular joe go to muse when they have chatgpt and gemini? Most of their actual productive data is likely with Google anyway.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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This is not even true. Gemini Spark has been there for a while.

I mean nobody really uses Gemini because is just too weak…

More because Spark is not good. Gemini Flash 3.8 is an awesome model! I use it all the time

Spark asks you for every single tool call, often forgets earlier parts of the conversation, is unable to use apps unless you explicitly tag them and and and

Google has great models, but their harnesses and products are just bad

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