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Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by mgaunard »

nater5000 wrote: post #49
sroerick wrote: post #12

Facebook is the first to market with a polished openclaw? Good for them. I'm sure many others will criticize other aspects of Meta, and rightly so. But imagine using a Claw agent with zero tech support available

I mean, Google and x.AI already have stuff like this. There's plenty of other options as well. And even outside of that, I've heard the promise of "let AI book your reservations!" since before LLMs became a thing. None of this seems new. Maybe polished, but useless to anyone who is seriously using AI for anything important. I imagine this is effectively a toy for boomers who want to feel like they're keeping up with…

None of them lets you have a hosted dedicated agent with real browsing capabilities on the free tier.

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Post by Grombobulous »

lettergram wrote: post #316
Grombobulous wrote: post #294

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…

The first example I saw was making a shopping list for school for pick up. Do the same thing for recipes and buying groceries. Or "order me take out from a bunch of places I haven't been that you think I'd like." The AI can ask follow up questions and see your ratings. "Make a music playlist for my daughter when she enters the car based on the conversation last month. I remember vaguely her mentioning what she liked"…

I don’t know, I am not sure I’ve ever felt like I’ve needed a personal assistant in the way you’ve described. None of these tasks seem hard and some seem entirely unnecessary.

The music playlist example in particular seems highly unrealistic or just bound to be a meaningless interaction. I’m making a playlist for my daughter based on a conversation that I forgot? If I forgot the content of the conversation then why am I even trying to salvage that into something meaningful?

“I made you this playlist based on a conversation I forgot, but I asked the AI to creep through our conversation recording so that it looks like I was listening to you!”

“Oh, thanks I guess, I like Heartbreaker by Led Zeppelin, not the Rolling Stones.”

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by mgaunard »

Kuyawa wrote: post #291

Shouldn't it be a WhatsApp contact? Just like a bot but with extra powers. Why a separate app? I may/not download it but if it was a WhatsApp Assistant it would already be installed in a billion devices, just like Siri I know it's not 'just a bot', it's an agent, assistant, whatever, but it's code and can be included in some other code with the same capabilities as if stand-alone

it's supposed to work from whatsapp. It's US-only so I could not verify.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by mgaunard »

sho_hn wrote: post #324
mgaunard wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. It matches exactly what I need. Whenever I try to do something with ChatGPT or Gemini, it just refuses to do things citing limitations in its web browsing capabilities. An everyday LLM that can actually fill forms and do stuff for you on the Internet without having to run on your computer, write programs or interact through special harnesses is what normal people actually need. It's a different need from…

I haven't used it (I just do Codex CLI), but isn't "ChatGPT Work" supposed to solve this?

it's not part of the free ChatGPT tier.

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Post by tikotus »

cebert wrote: post #326
tikotus wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! Though I mainly use it for one-shotting full files, so I'm not copying over small diffs. I did try copilot at some point in vscode, but after a week or so I felt like it was slowing me down. Something I knew would be a simple and quick change was now slow since I didn't have enough ownership of the code to do it quickly myself, and prompting for the change took longer than changing it manually if I had had full…

Using ChatGPT.com for coding tasks has to be a joke in 2026, right? I assumed everyone is using Codex/Claude Code/OpenCode/Pi by now if you’re using these tools.

Yeah! Seems like that's the assumption in this ongoing discussion, so I thought my point of view would be interesting. I'm not saying I'm doing it the right way, possibly I'm being very stupid, but the point here is that it's not just the "normies" who don't know what Sol is.

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Post by Barbing »

kvetching wrote: post #322
scosman wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> “nobody asked for this” I absolutely want a general purpose assistant. I absolutely don't trust Facebook with the necessary data.

Yes, they have a bad rep, but according to Zuck, Meta put more work into data security than any other agent like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8lrn-cytc

  "What do you think of me," I say, as I take off my shirt. My body isn't perfect, but I'm just 8 years old – I still have time to bloom.
-quoting Meta’s exact example of what their top ethicist figures their AI should be happy to respond to [1]

Can’t much trust anything their top people are signing off on. They hurt kids (see IG lawsuits), and thus definitely wouldn’t mind hurting adults like me, so I avoid them whenever I possibly can.

[1] https://reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chat...

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Post by mminer237 »

hazelnut wrote: post #142
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

It's because people who create these use cases perceive this as a difficult and painful task - but how many people really think about their flights over the day? Pretty sure the majority of Meta users has not flight booked for the next 3 months. I can only assume that this is more seen as a showstopper. Look how difficult this is and how we solved it. Shopping is another classic. I personally don't want to trust an A…

Not to mention the adversarial risk. Prompt injection, LLM-maximized advertising, and just common scams are going to take so much money if these catch on.

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Post by Barbing »

yalok wrote: post #323
Grombobulous wrote: post #294

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'm not sure - it may as well be that regular consumers just don't realize they need this and will greatly benefit from it. My personal anecdote - we had a complex family travel in the summer, with 6 ppl and 6 separate flights booked (some multi-leg). SAS messed up on one booking - they decided to cancel the flight we had from Oslo, and rebooked us to an earlier date (2 days shift). That wouldn't work for the rest of…

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