23 votes

Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out

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  1. rodrigo
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    Emma Roth's verdict is that it kinda works, but for me, I wouldn't allow this thing to get access to my stuff (e-mail! Credit Cards!) not even it it cleaned my house and prepared the coffee. I...

    Emma Roth's verdict is that it kinda works, but for me, I wouldn't allow this thing to get access to my stuff (e-mail! Credit Cards!) not even it it cleaned my house and prepared the coffee. I can't trust Meta in any way.

    29 votes
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    polle
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    If you have used any of the frontier models over the past 2 years, this list reads as incredibly mundane and obvious. I could ask claude to order me mcdonalds from the closest shop to my home...

    If you have used any of the frontier models over the past 2 years, this list reads as incredibly mundane and obvious.

    I could ask claude to order me mcdonalds from the closest shop to my home address but only on days that are overcast and when my smart scale indicates I am not gaining too much weight and it would figure out the required API's, credentials and whatnot it needs to do that. It may ask me some clarifications but it could reliably get this working with no real help from me.

    20 votes
    1. [4]
      shrike
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      Yep, with enough tools and data access the current frontier models are scary good at this stuff. You can go like "hey, the local pizza place uses dynamic delivery pricing, notify me on Saturday...

      Yep, with enough tools and data access the current frontier models are scary good at this stuff.

      You can go like "hey, the local pizza place uses dynamic delivery pricing, notify me on Saturday evenings if the price goes to 3,90€ (the lowest it'll go) between 16-18". And if you're brave you can just have it automatically order the pizzas, or pre-fill the basket up until the "purchase" step and send you a notification to come finish the order...

      And this is the worst they will ever be, same with local models. Barring any major world catastrophes, we're like 5 years from this stuff running on local hardware at home, that's some sci-fi shit

      9 votes
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        Tiraon
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        I am nor brave, I would rather these things were deterministic if I were to use them like that at all. This would be trivially achievable for a fraction of the compute if the apis were open,...

        I am nor brave, I would rather these things were deterministic if I were to use them like that at all.

        This would be trivially achievable for a fraction of the compute if the apis were open, documented and accesible.

        It is impressive it can theoretically be done through natural language but is it worth the resource cost?

        14 votes
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          shrike
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          “If we had open APIs” is the “If my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle” of software dev 😄 It would be cool if I could just use a bunch of API glue to automate things, but I can’t. So I need a...

          “If we had open APIs” is the “If my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle” of software dev 😄

          It would be cool if I could just use a bunch of API glue to automate things, but I can’t. So I need a digital mega brain with way too much power to parse human-readable web pages with fuzzy content.

          7 votes
          1. rodrigo
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            How much expensive can this pizza get that a overly complex, resource intensive machinery automating it would be advantageous? I know it's a hypothetical example, but most things I read about are...

            How much expensive can this pizza get that a overly complex, resource intensive machinery automating it would be advantageous? I know it's a hypothetical example, but most things I read about are somewhat in this level of utility. “Create a morning briefing for me”, “read and reply my messages”, and so on.

            I can understand the thrill by automating this stuff, but I always end up wondering if it worth it.

            5 votes
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    patience_limited
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    I initially wasn't sure how seriously to take this story about a mother's horror at the information Muse offered up about her children. It's being corroborated from other sources, and Meta claims...

    I initially wasn't sure how seriously to take this story about a mother's horror at the information Muse offered up about her children. It's being corroborated from other sources, and Meta claims to have "fixed the problem".

    I'd really just love to scrub every sign that I exist from the entire Internet, but here I am posting.

    6 votes
    1. Omnicrola
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      It's a terrible existential thing that lady is going through, and my sympathies go out to her. Hopefully there is a silver lining to it, and it can also serve as a wake up call to her and others...

      I initially wasn't sure how seriously to take this story about a mother's horror at the information Muse offered up about her children.

      It's a terrible existential thing that lady is going through, and my sympathies go out to her. Hopefully there is a silver lining to it, and it can also serve as a wake up call to her and others around her that this has been happening for awhile. "We are the product" is s term I'm certain she's probably heard before, but now she's able to see in a visceral way what that actually means.

      6 votes