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Screenshot of a Bluesky quote chain.
The first post, by @DKThomp on Twitter, says: "Fascinating @benthompson vision of the future of the Internet—i.e., ‘The Agentic Web’ Scenario: Before I go to sleep, I tell ChatGPT ‘Plan my 5-year-old’s birthday next Saturday, budget $500. When you’ve made the reservation, email these 20 ppl a printable invitation to attend. Also my wife wants to go to England in mid-July. Find 5 plausible flights for the family and make several distinct itineraries. Finally, pls edit this work memo.’
When I go to sleep, the Al agent negotiates slots with two bowling alleys, buys a cake, emails printable invites, plans the trip, copy-edits, etc."
It is quoted by Drew Harwell on Bluesky: “Wouldn’t do this in a million years”.
This quote is then quoted by @cinemashoebox.bsky.social: “Waking up to 20 angry parents of my son’s friends wondering why they’ve been sent an invitation to a BRITOTHDYA PRRRYT featuring a picture of Elsa with three eyes and tits bigger than her head. meanhile my wife is boarding a plane for her 176 hour flight to England via four layovers in Antarctica”
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Yes it would be nice for normal people to afford a secretary or buttler type but ai isn’t there yet it needs more time to cook and stop shoving it into things unneeded
I’m not sure I’d be comfortable having a secretary plan my kids’ party (if I had any). It’s not really appropriate to mix your work and personal life that much.
That’s why I mixed in butler I’m not exactly sure what kind of help/assistant would fill role but if we can’t get more time off more help would be nice
How is the AI supposed to schedule with venues while you’re sleeping? Aren’t the people who run the venues also sleeping?
Your agent would communicate with the venue’s agent, after some negotiation they would agree on $400 dollars for a 7.5 minute party for 5000 children
They recently had the AI village experiment AI plan and carry out an event. They did finally have the event but there were some hiccups like they had to keep reminding the AIs that they were not coporeal and could not do things like drive to pick up the cake or make and bring signs to the event.
after some negotiation they would agree on $400 dollars for a 7.5 minute party for 5000 children
Both AI agents assume that all children are perfectly spherical and the venue exists exclusively with no atmosphere in a vacuum.
That’s a great idea! Treating the children like perfectly spherical objects will let us calculate the flow of children through the bowling alley more like particles through a garden hose. Since we can accommodate many more children this way, let’s expand the invitations to the entire school contacts list, with the new subject line, “Your child-sized balls are cordially invited!” The invitations are sent and your wife’s travel plans have been amended to a one-day round trip starting and ending at the same airport to save on airfare costs. Is there anything else you need help with?
Lol
Luckily, your wife’s round trip will be with the best airline in existence.
I almost thought this was a real ChatGPT response lol
Not if they are in a totally different time zone, such as with a country half-way around the world. Or if the venue has an automated system available 24/7… Like a website or app.
I think it’s implied by that bozo that bowling place also runs a chatbot of their own
Even that could have an online system. There’s this big bowling alley, arcade, restaursnt thing that opened a few years ago in my area, and you can schedule use of the lanes via a webpage. No humans needed. It’s not the 90’s anymore.
but that’s not disruptive and works and makes altman zero money
Ah I see what you’re getting at. lol
“My Kia Sorrento can’t bake a cake! What a shitty car!” is the flawed criticism of people like OP.
It’s supposed to generate interest by being so deeply flawed that you can’t help but comment on it.
They don’t care that their criticism is trash, they just want you to participate in their discussion.
I know I can’t be the only one that, even if AI was up to doing all this reliably, wouldn’t want AI spending my money on it’s own like this, surely? Like, I can be pretty picky and tend to spend a lot of time shopping around for things. A significant fraction of the time I end up deciding not to buy anything because I can’t find exactly what I want at a price I’m willing to spend for it. I think I’d get hella stressed out that my AI would just buy the first thing that fit a category, or the cheapest, or whatever some company paid the AI developer to have it prefer, or such like that, and not to mention the worry that I might suggest buying something as a joke to someone else and have the AI hear and take it seriously or something and then my money’s gone before I realize.
because this isn’t for us. It’s for the ruling class, who have more money than they could ever spend and don’t care about anything.
Are they also going to spend £500 per token then? Not going to make so much from it if you audience of customers is a few thousand people.
I know I can’t be the only one that, even if AI was up to doing all this reliably, wouldn’t want AI spending my money on it’s own like this, surely?
Well, the post you’re replying to has at least two people who agree with you, so I’d say probably not the only one, no
My friends trust llms to tell them what to buy. Surely that will never ne abused by capitalism. People are stupid.
Which is doubly hilarious because that’s the point of AI anyway.
Hide the web, or any other ‘distractions’, and just trust this AI ‘friend’ to make all the best decisions for you.
Fuck I hate this shit.
And none of them see it. They say I need it or ill be left behind. I can’t believe theyre this easily duped.
This is how democracy dies… with people willingly surrendering it.
There’s a word for all these people. Lazy. Its just lazy assholes. And greed. Thats why I hate everything about our fake ai age.
Anyone got that picture of Elsa with three eyes and giant knockers?
I’ve got you!
I’m adding that one to my spank bank.
Goals
My art skills or this lovely lady?
Either or
“176 hour flight to England via 4 layovers in Antarctica” THIS is how you do comedy.
Is it really that hard to pull up a couple of websites to search for flights? What is this negotiating he’s talking about anyway? Since when has haggling been part of buying plane tickets?
This magic A.I. also has a list of 20 kids to invite to a birthday party, you still had to spend the time teaching the bot who you wanted to email.
Tbf booking sites are mostly pretty bad in my experience, and haggling has been there since…Priceline? Heavy JS, poor sorting, different prices, hard to define what you’re looking for. It could be worse, but it’s not great.
Is it really haggling or more just sorting through prices offered by different sites and airlines? You can’t really negotiate a lower price, but you can choose layovers, different flights, times to save money.
Anyone got a link to the picture of Elsa ?
I tried using an ai image generator, but it couldn’t seem to get it right, so I did it myself on my phone. Also I didn’t know how to make her boobs any bigger, so I just made her head smaller to compensate. Hope you like it!
You should start working as an AI agent, you show promise.
A mastapiece.
Guess who’s getting tungsten cubes for his birthday!
Fuck yea I love metallic cubes!
Could you take this off my colony? We no longer like it.
BRITOTHDYA PRRRYT
This makes me wonder, what about promt injection. I’m not aware of a reliable way to protect against prompt injection.
How slow are they making ChatGPT for this to be an overnight task?
It has to call the bowling alley 631 times between 2:10 AM and 10:03 AM when they finally pick up. These things take time.
No way. The AI would be smart. It would quickly realize they are closed and book lanes in a bowling alley on the other side of the globe
Critics who say that LLMs would perform poorly at real life tasks like war, surgery or mailing birthday invitations are suggesting that these are common use-cases.
“Negotiates 2 slots at the bowling alley” does this guy think you have to Hagel to reserve a bowling lane??
See in his future, the bowling ally has an AI that determines the maximum each customer is likely to pay, so yes.
