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Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by jaapz »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #426
abixb wrote: post #247

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> you should really question your worldview a bit. Yeah, I still struggle with it. I have a diverse friend circle and sometimes I forget that most of them don't have the same information diet that I do (or don't even care about tech the way I do). Maybe I should be more like them and just chill? I don't know.

> I forget that most of them don't have the same information diet that I do It is interesting that you conflate "information diet" with "tech". The biggest info junkies I have ever met are: (1) medical doctors, (2) STEM PhDs, and (3) journalists. There are probably some other categories that I am missing. And almost none of the info they are consuming is "tech".

I don't think the person you reply to conflates "information diet" with "tech". They are just saying that their information diet consists for a large part of tech news, and other people have other information diets that don't contain that much tech news..

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by kilroy123 »

mixedCase wrote: post #223

Yeah nah thanks I'm building my own. An agent that knows every bit of my life? Dream come true for data harvesting. It's bad enough what it can infer and sell from the public statements I make in social media and imperceptible metrics I could not fathom.

I agree I want a self hosted thing.

I can't wait until we have drastically better models we can run locally that don't cost as much as a car.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by whazor »

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I'm confident that Muse can do lots of agentic tasks succesfully for normies on outdated models. Like buying sneakers, booking appointments, dealing with government forms.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

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'…

> So, us serial HN users and commenters are the extreme minority

Words to live by.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by fg137 »

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'…

At $dayjob, a company with ~10k employees, there are like 3 people who cannot shut up discussing the latest models in the internal AI forum, 10 others that constantly compare models and talk about "strategy" of using the models.

The rest of the users just use whatever the default is and get their work done.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by fg137 »

aatd86 wrote: post #568
KronisLV wrote: post #541

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> I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. For what it's worth, maybe that would help people who struggle with technology in general? Because as far as UI/UX goes, a chat interface for an agent is about as easy as it gets (not every site having its own crappy assistant that can't really do anything useful for you, but is slapped on there for the sake of a checkbox). I watched the marketing…

But who is going to trust Facebook/Meta with everything? Even my parents are wary of their products. I can't see a personal assistant coming from them and being successful.

If this is still not obvious to you, most people don't care about privacy. You and your parents are outliers.

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Post by alt227 »

KaiserPro wrote: post #582
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'…

Former meta prick, sorry employee: > Meta's strategy Meta has no strategy. The people that made llama work left two years ago. MSI are a bunch of charlatans who are trying to change the culutre and tooling of meta from the outside (I can see their point, trying to work outside of the defaults is incredibly hard.) its basically a bun fight, with all of your productive workers being poached by frontier labs, and everyo…

Meta certainly do give the impression that they are burning through ridiculous amounts of cash with not much to show for it, and thats just from the outside.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by TacticalCoder »

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 then realized that most people just stick with whatever default they're provided with, and it's a lot of them.

That's why Google already captured such a big part of the market with Gemini: they're now integrating it with just about everything. GMail? Gemini. Search? (asnwer by and "do you want to continue discussing this with") Gemini. Workspace? Gemini.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/on...

They may not have yet the same number of MAU as OpenAI but the Gemini experience is much more streamlined than ChatGPT: when people are presented with it, they just use it.

And to be fair Google's flash model are just amazing.

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Post by bossyTeacher »

lxgr wrote: post #547
bossyTeacher wrote: post #200

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> so is every security researcher in the world if they want to be Most security researchers lack Meta's history: - Testing emotional manipulation features on thousands of users non-consensually - Adding spyware on underage users - Intercept a rival app's traffic - Allowing harm to teen mental health And most importantly, most security researchers lack the money and power to fend off the legal consequences of these ac…

> Most security researchers lack Meta's history: [...] Why would you assume that security researchers don't know about these? If anything, wouldn't all the bad press and scandals make WhatsApp a more likely target of scrutiny? > And most importantly, most security researchers lack the money and power to fend off the legal consequences of these acts. Yes, security research is generally expensive, but do you have any e…

I meant to say that most researchers have engaged in the unethical actions that Meta has.

It's not that Meta is making it harder to report them but the fact that reporting them does not meaningfully disincentivise Meta from carrying on with their unethical behaviour (i.e. it is not an effective deterrent).

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Post by anomaly_ »

zerr wrote: post #520
loeg wrote: post #457

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You're missing out, for better or worse.

As an engineer, the enjoyment from the process is not less important, or should I say more important, than the enjoyment from shipping a final product.

Do you think the company that pays your wage thinks the same?
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