I hope it doesn't require a Mac mini. I like my openclaw but would be interesting to see what a polished commercial product looks like.
Personal Computer by Perplexity
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
OpenClaw as an appliance, ready to use, sold to non-techies? May as well be profitable.
Does openclaw have a killer use yet? Ive not opted to use it yet becauase - while very impressive hype and capability - seems like a lot of risk/credits for not an insane gain.
Giving non-technical people agents with custom skills, quickly (like literally in under an hour). We've done a couple similar deployments but with some hard guardrails and it's been a hit.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does openclaw have a killer use yet? Ive not opted to use it yet becauase - while very impressive hype and capability - seems like a lot of risk/credits for not an insane gain.
Does any fashion thing always offer a lot of gain? But it's selling well because it's hot fashion, a talking piece, a sign of belonging to a particular social circle, etc. Perplexity caught the moment very reasonably: a fad should be monetized very quickly, because it's often as quick to fizz out.
I guess my question is there any value or is it merely the thing du jour.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does openclaw have a killer use yet? Ive not opted to use it yet becauase - while very impressive hype and capability - seems like a lot of risk/credits for not an insane gain.
Giving non-technical people agents with custom skills, quickly (like literally in under an hour). We've done a couple similar deployments but with some hard guardrails and it's been a hit.
So is that the use case -- getting non-technical people a leg up?
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#165Perplexity.ai 's main login-less search/chatbot is my personal favorite online LLM. I would be willing to try this new product of theirs, but definitely on a secondary computer (i.e. not main system). Do I have to sign up to install their version of an OS/openclaw?
Yes i think you need MAX subscription.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> Harvard, MIT > people are being paid too much to spend all day emailing each other Hmm, this does not sound exactly right. Also, does anybody seriously think that communication is not work, or is not important? A number of really impactful things started from people emailing each other. (Hell, Linux kernel development is still much about people emailing patches each other.)
The problem with human labor is that, as an organization scales, the amount of work any individual in the system can do shrinks due to the coordination problem. Coordination consumes a larger and larger amount of employee time to the point that, in the absolute largest organizations, the vast majority of employee time is internal coordination vs. actual improvement/selling of the customer offering. So if you go from…
This is so true. I can see the same in our organisation. So much time wasted on bullshit busywork and red tape.
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#167> In a study of over 16,000 queries, measured against institutional benchmarks from McKinsey, Harvard, MIT, BCG, and others, we determined Perplexity Computer saved our internal teams $1.6M in labor costs and performed 3.25 years of work in only four weeks. And now we’re extending those same capabilities to other teams. This is a wild statement that does not seem to be supported by any actual data. What does it mean?…
Feels to me like it's missing a key component of how processes work. If they measure how much time it takes a person to complete a power point and then extrapolate the automation, sure, you can make three years worth of power points in a few weeks, but usually these are made in response to external events of some sort. You're giving a presentation to a customer or a conference. You're briefing internally the results of a study. Whatever it is, no matter how much faster you generate the slide decks, you can't speed up history to give you more stuff to actually put in the slide decks. You can't make the audience read or listen to it any faster. Typing is not the slow part of the critical path here.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Each board director could ask for a particular thing they require, or a briefing themself, eliminating human intermediary You are missing the point of board briefings. The CEO serves as a critical filter of information, deciding what to tell the board and how to frame it. If you take the CEO out of it, you're giving the board full access to the company's state. There's enough going on day-to-day that each member ca…
Isn't the CEO taking themselves out of the equation in this demo?
No, because they are not blindly passing on the briefing to the board. It's a starting point, and presumably they're going to tweak it.
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#169This feels a lot like the “enterprise version” of what projects like OpenClaw are trying to do in the open source world — a persistent agent that lives on your machine and can act on your behalf across apps. If Perplexity ships this successfully, I suspect it could push the whole space forward. Once a big company normalizes the idea of an always-on agent with OS-level access, we’ll probably see a lot more companies b…
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#170> In a study of over 16,000 queries, measured against institutional benchmarks from McKinsey, Harvard, MIT, BCG, and others, we determined Perplexity Computer saved our internal teams $1.6M in labor costs and performed 3.25 years of work in only four weeks. And now we’re extending those same capabilities to other teams. This is a wild statement that does not seem to be supported by any actual data. What does it mean?…
Having been involved in this sort of exercise before, I can explain. What they will have done is asked a human who should be knowledgeable approximately how much time they spend on the activity (e.g.: how long do you normally spend copy and pasting? How long do you spend looking for the files you need? etc.). When you ask someone whose job it is, they tend to overestimate, and on top of that, you break down the quest…
So they ask people to self-report for control, then measure actual time for treatment? Holy scientific methodology, Batman.