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The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future

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Re: The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future

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Post by lapcat »

> Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes.

Says the person with absolute power over the largest social network in the world.

> Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy

Wait, those are the things I enjoy.

I suppose that Zuck means free up time for more Facebook scrolling.

Re: The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future

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Post by j2kun »

mrmarket wrote: post #16

If meta’s marketing team had any self awareness about the state of the ‘brand’, they would know the absolute best thing they could do for probably the next year at least would be to de-emphasize and hide zuck as much as possible, shut their mouths, and try to fade into the background as a silent ‘parent company’. Then they could just let instagram be instagram and hope people forget its part of Meta at all, and if at…

Indeed, I think Instagram may be all they have left, brand-wise.

Re: The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future

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Post by watwut »

cautiouscat wrote: post #2

The first part kind of had me going “oh wow, this doesn’t seem like a thinly veiled advertisement for once”. You know, the common thing we see from frontier labs. Then I got to the examples. > my agent plans personalized recipes for us to make together each weekend, orders the ingredients, and then offers suggestions as we're baking. I mean universe forbid you from using a recipe from one of the many talented bakers…

It is as if they had zero experience of living as humans. They feel like aliens who never experienced 21th century life and imagine what the daily issues might be.

They always suggest to use agents in a way that makes non issue sound tedious. Unless you have mental health issue anxiety levels, you can do disintersted weekend baking without getting "agentic suggestions". And it is disinterested cooking, cause he had agent plan and pick the meal.

The total usefulness is that it picks receipt for me and creates shopping list. And again, unless you are terminally indecisive, it is not making anything really easier.

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Post by baal80spam »

lapcat wrote: post #21

> Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes. Says the person with absolute power over the largest social network in the world. > Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy W…

> Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies

Well, I just threw up in my mouth.

Re: The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future

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Post by OutOfHere »

Fwiw, Whatsapp is only weakly encrypted. It presumably streams all metadata to the government. Also, if certain sensitive keywords are entered, e.g. pmurt in reverse, that too ostensibly triggers an immediate alert to the government to trigger further monitoring. Whatsapp's backups and notifications have also been well known to be risk vectors. Broadly speaking, most mobile devices and web browsers are extreme risk vectors.
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