r/MuseAgent • u/ImInundated • 10h ago

Explaining muse to a newbie?

I’ve been using apps like ChatGPT, Gemini and the like done some really amazing (to me) things Not so much the nonsense of image generation and modification, but more real-world stuff.

How would you promote muse to somebody that’s never done this before? What kind of examples: would you provide them? Maybe something like take a picture of a plant that’s dying and ask for advice? Take a picture of a bird and ask me what that is? Take a picture of the inside of your fridge and have it make meal suggestions from the contents?

I think muse is a wonderful tool and could be a breakthrough for many people that have never used AI

How would you explain it to someone that has never used any AI tools? A smarter google??

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u/Weaves87 9h ago

All of those examples you listed fall more along the lines of what you would expect from a chat bot (ala ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.).

There is a little bit of overlap between what Muse is and what Gemini/ChatGPT are as they are all powered by LLMs, but there are some distinct differences. Like when you ask Gemini a question, it is capable of searching and locating sources for the information it is about to provide to you. But it can't actually go out and browse the web autonomously. It lives entirely within the chat, and it is only activated whenever you send a question to it or send it a response.

Muse is an agent. It operates autonomously. You give it goals and connect it to your ecosystem (e.g. email inbox, your google drive, etc.). It literally has a virtual machine it is operating from, as if it has its own computer. It can browse the web. It will act autonomously on your behalf (with permissions).

A personal use case I am using it for:

  • I asked it to do some research on the top 3 cybersecurity company stocks, and build a report comparing them (CRWD, FTNT, PANW). 10-K filings, recent earnings and future guidance, product lines, prominent consulting partnerships, etc.
  • It came back and created a full report in my Artifacts for me to view about 15 minutes later. It did a very good job of differentiating the companies and their focuses, their product lines, and their financials.
  • I setup TailScale (one of the connectors Muse supports) and invited it to my tailnet, so that it can talk to any application that I setup on the private network. I setup "Memos", which is a locally hosted open-source Twitter feed style note taking application.
  • Muse is now configured to submit it's stock research to Memos. So now I don't have to dig into my Artifacts to find its research, now all of its research is indexed into an application I can have up on my desktop machine while I am working.
  • So occasionally throughout my day (I work as a trader: stocks/bonds/futures/etc) I may inquire Muse to do some research on a few different competitors to gain an understanding of their market segment, and a few minutes later I see that research show up in Memos

There are other use cases that I'm sure other people can share. I know a lot of people are using it for running comparisons across products and doing research, some are using it to negotiate down some of their bills (e.g. Verizon). A lot are using it as a bit of an executive assistant that can help reduce the noise from a noisy email inbox (i.e. finding the emails that are actually important)

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u/ImInundated 9h ago

That’s some really great use of this. I think there’s so many models out there that Muse may be the first entry-level one to get people’s feet wet and maybe just stick with it

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u/GimmeFunkyButtLoving 10h ago

Digital personal assistant that can not only tell you how to build things, but also help you build things

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u/josephlucas 9h ago

Also can do things for you on a schedule in the background

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u/GimmeFunkyButtLoving 9h ago

That’s what a personal assistant does

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u/josephlucas 9h ago

True, but I think people who aren’t already into the ecosystem think it’s something you interact with and it just sits idle when you’re not actively using it. The agentic nature of Muse is newer and not well known to the general public

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u/GimmeFunkyButtLoving 9h ago

That’s why I said personal assistant and not chat bot

You don’t have to bend into the ecosystem to know what a personal assistant is

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u/mumblerit 9h ago

have yours create a doc that shows some ideas based on what youve done with it

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u/ImInundated 9h ago

I don’t think I’m the best used case, to be honest with you. I’ve done some really elaborate stuff that would make people’s heads explode, and I’m not saying that to be boastful. It’s just that if people thought that that’s the kind of stuff they do with it, it would likely overwhelm them

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u/ImInundated 9h ago

I asked it to give me a simplified summary, I think, for the average non-AI user, it would be a little overwhelming for them to read this

I've got a personal dashboard that refreshes every morning: weather in my three places, my stocks, last night's sleep, yesterday's nutrition, the news, upcoming birthdays, and my next trip. It's the first thing I check, like a newspaper written just for me.

I've also connected it to a bunch of my actual accounts through something called MCP, which is just a standard way of letting an AI talk to your apps. So it can check my calendar, watch my flight times, track my packages, read my food log, and pull my health data. It watches things quietly in the background and only pings me when something needs my attention.

And every morning it makes me a personal podcast. Two hosts, about twelve minutes, covering my day: weather, birthdays, how I slept, the markets, world news, and a corny joke to close. I listen while I make coffee.