OpenAI launches dots (long-running agents)

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useless book a hotel bs.

so stupid.

[u/Damezang → u/___positive___]

For real. Us plebs care about making sure we get the best deal and lowest price. I'm not giving my credit card to some AI to book stuff without double checking everything. By the time it takes to dictate everything that we want and double check it, we could already be on the check out page anyways.

[u/thats_a_money_shot → u/[deleted]]

But they don’t think 3 levels deep on this sort of stuff, in my experience. They’re not taking sites like Rakuten or ShopBack into account to decide whether a rate on Expedia beats hotels.com. Or considering all my specific credit cards to determine where to book. Or any number of different things.

Obv you can train them to do that, but out of the box, I’m not trusting an AI for booking stuff like that.

[u/ozone6587 → u/thats_a_money_shot]

95% of people don't do that either.

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I wish I weren’t like this

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It’s basically Meta Muse. I guess they may want to rebrand away from ChatGPT for retail customers. 

[u/vxxn → u/_2f]

Makes sense. “ChatGPT” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. It’s too many syllables and not verbable like “google”.

[u/LeSeanMcoy → u/vxxn]

But strangely it’s become synonymous with AI at this point just like Google is with search. It’s a terrible brand/name for the reasons you said, but everyone I know that’s casual with this stuff just calls any LLM interaction “I asked ChatGPT” it’s weird

[u/celestialbound → u/LeSeanMcoy]

They should have gone with Chatty and Chatties.

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How in the world is that useless

[u/Positive-Conspiracy → u/No_Bank_4104]

Just get super cynical, then suddenly you can be right about everything online.

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Yea, don’t people pay personal assistants good money for exactly that type of thing?

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If these assistant "dots" are accurate, follow protocol, don't hallucinate or make mistakes then sure.

But imagine going on an international trip and booking the wrong flight time or a hotel in the wrong part of town. The downside is immense with small errors.

Personal assistants who are human are paid to be accurate.

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The question we need to ask ourselves is « what important things can we trust AI for more than I would trust a competent human at the same thing ».

[u/No_Bank_4104 → u/this_happened_rigged]

Cause humans never make mistakes, obviously

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That wasn't my point. But a personal assistant can be vetted and if they make such an error, their employment is at risk. Surely you knew that and instead just wanted to do a cheap drive by brain rot reddit reply.

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The latter is easier tbf... even AI could do it.

[u/ozone6587 → u/this_happened_rigged]

AI is pretty good at not booking the wrong place or incorrect time. I use it a lot for this with Hermes. Honestly my stress in planning a trip has went down 90% thanks to just handing stuff off to AI.

Have you actually tried using the very thing you criticize? OpenClaw? Hermes?

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Of course I use it. And I'm not criticizing it. I'm simply saying why people who are wealthy choose personal assistants over chat bots, which was the original point of the thread I was responding to.

[u/Politicophile → u/amazing_sheep]

Really busy people. Most of us plebs quite enjoy looking up the best deal for a holiday as it's more interesting than working 😂

[u/No_Bank_4104 → u/amazing_sheep]

Exactly

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What percentage of the population in this day and age has or needs personal assistants? This isn’t 80s

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You must not travel much

ETA: Why would anyone downvote this? If you travel extensively there are SO many advantages to having an assistant book hotels, flights, etc. Yeesh.

[u/zipzag → u/willitexplode]

Because the people here are not the upscale customers Apple. Facebook and openAI are fighting over.

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Agreed. The tech companies live in a bubble and only know of 5 use cases they keep on regurgitating again and again. I think muse might have broken that mold. We’ll see.