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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”
Roundabout way to say “I’m a bad parent”.
I don’t have kids but pretty sure part of being a parent and forming a bond with your child is putting effort into raising them.
ChatGPT will know what they like so you don’t have to.
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
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?
I almost thought this was a real ChatGPT response lol
Luckily, your wife’s round trip will be with the best airline in existence.
Lol
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s close enough that I can barely see the difference. It’s not just different layovers, times, airlines, and seating, but mix in different prices for the same exact purchase depending on the website, time, date, or maybe even browser cookies and it’s a lot more like an adversarial negotiation than simply selecting the best choice from an array of options.
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“176 hour flight to England via 4 layovers in Antarctica” THIS is how you do comedy.
I’m like, oh honey, we used to be able to do all this stuff. We had software for this. We had services in the web. Actually, I think we still do - hold on…
*looking at the national public transport route planning site*
*vague gesturing* this is peak technology and none of the AI bros have apparently heard of this shit, because they don’t use public transport.
The Web used to cater to the niche services, until Big Tech rolled in, and now they try to replace it with patently inferior solutions.
A computer can never find out
Therefore a computer must never fuck around
“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.
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
I know we’re mostly joking about how shitty AI currently is, but for the sake of the future, smarter AIs, don’t give them the ability to go contact others and spend money. That’s how you get the paper clip/stamp machine apocalypse.
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.
This makes me wonder, what about promt injection. I’m not aware of a reliable way to protect against prompt injection.
No mention of all the privacy invasions you’d have to be good with so that the agents could do all that.
Now think about this with healthcare, finance, education, etc.
