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Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by kachnuv_ocasek »

rpozarickij wrote: post #430
tyre wrote: post #398

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TIL openai owns chat.com I hung out with my parents this weekend and heard them talking about "chat", as a noun. I assumed they were talking about ChatGPT; there being a literal chat.com makes sense why they'd call it that.

I've seen people using "chat" to refer to ChatGPT because it's easier/simpler. I'm pretty sure an average person has no idea that chat.com will redirect you to chatgpt.com (or what a redirect is for that matter). It's similar to how people were calling the COVID-19 pandemic or the virus itself "covid".

ChatGPT is commonly referred to as Chappie (チャッピー) in Japan.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by latexr »

abixb wrote: post #234

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'…

> I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them

You know it? I sincerely hope you don’t and that it’s not really “most” of us. That would be incredibly sad. Tracking model releases and discussing “every parameter weight” is very far from intellectually curious discussion (what HN is ostensibly about).

> I then realized that most people just stick with whatever default they're provided with (…)

> Curse of knowledge and all.

If there’s one thing many of us on HN suffer from, however, is intense hubris. The juxtaposition of claiming “curse of knowledge” while admitting to not having known the most elementary principle of designing for people is a tad tone deaf. Yes, of course most people just stick with the defaults, that’s why dark patterns work and hiding settings is a thing. The industry has been using those strategies to manipulate people for years and years.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by gorgoiler »

taurath wrote: post #546
gorgoiler wrote: post #414

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Your example is about helping a consumer navigate a market to get the best product and I think it’s bang on. Too many sectors of the economy sell the lie that they are operating as a free market when in reality they are confusopolies that inflate their margins by being tricking me into buying the worse product. I can’t wait to have an agent navigate and summarize my options for me, so I can choose without having to b…

> I can’t wait to have an agent navigate and summarize my options for me You must gave no idea how susceptible agents are to marketing! I used agents in conjunction to my own research on a niche item lately and while it was helpful for showing some things I hadn’t considered it was dead wrong, frequently about a lot of stuff. But by all means, give up more control

That’s really interesting, and you’re right, I had assumed an agent could be instructed to treat all vendor copy as biased to the point of being hostile!

I also don’t think I’d ever hand the credit card over to an agent. I just want a summary of what it has found and what it intends to do before pressing “pay”.

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Post by the_gipsy »

aryehof wrote: post #434

Perhaps a better overview is from Reuters … https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-launches-ai-agent-that... From the article: - … rolled out … despite internal concerns that the technology mismanages its access to sensitive personal data - The product will be available only in the U.S.initially - A basic version of the agent will be available for free, while Meta will offer subscriptions priced at $20 a month and $10…

> mismanages its access to sensitive personal data

> interactions being used to train Facebook's AI models

Yupp, the only "edge" Facebook could possibly have, is user data.

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Post by stackbutterflow »

ctkhn wrote: post #267
ajkjk wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I didn't know who Shingy was. He looks like Jensen Huang's subconscious.
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