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Posted by alvis 7 hours ago

Dots: Always-on agents(openai.com)
441 points | 336 commentspage 4
zurfer 4 hours ago|
Ah damn it, I knew Dot was a good name for an agent. When we named our product I thought: a bot that analyzes data should be called dot. It's easy to type also in Slack. Ah well. Next product will just be some random 3 letters: gpt or so. What are the odds?
TomGarden 1 hour ago||
Still haven't seen a killer use case for these solutions.

For now, coding is the only thing I ever use LLMs for

mccoyb 5 hours ago||
I love these commercials where someone has chosen to show how the AI product will essentially be used to slop out some garbage piece of corpo communication ... and the user basically says "looks good" with barely any thought, then mixed with some sort of real life thing (wedding planning here).

I mean, I feel like I'm going crazy -- but I was struck by this jarring blending of experiences ... shitting out some growth plots followed by autopilot on your wedding. Nice OpenAI. The only thing missing is a moment of self-reflection where I contemplate where exactly I lost what makes me ... me.

Is this what SV wants the world to look like? Mixing fucking cake batter while a bot shows me a regression to the mean website? Pretending like I have any sort of intentionality in my life, while a nameless entity (given quirky form) sort of walks me through my life?

I'm not sure why it gave me this impression, but strikes me as vaguely reminiscent of soma (from Brave New World).

Kind of sad, because the tech is actually incredible: who are they hiring to storyboard these commercials?

ryeights 4 hours ago|
Meat proxy at work, meat proxy in your personal time. The utopian visions of AI futures strike me as alternative forms of hell. Humanity accomplishes everything and it means nothing, actions have no real consequence, the bumpy friction and individuality of life smoothed to a plane of perfect optimization.
cs702 6 hours ago||
Will Muse and Dots be more successful than Clippy[a]? I don't know. Maybe.

What I do know is that those cute one-syllable names are meant to make you feel comfortable with AI agents who are deep in your business all the time.

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[a] https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-life-death-mic...

hankbond 7 hours ago||
> takes important work off your plate so you get more of your time and attention back

Ok but I want the time and attention so that I can do important work. What bizarre marketing.

floatrock 6 hours ago||
nah now you can review your website designs while cooking dinner.

It's not giving any of your time and attention back, it's selling a world where your attention is always captured by some pavlovian app ping.

Ambient intelligence is only useful with ambient attention capture.

gk1 6 hours ago||
Some important work is fun to do, some isn’t.
ecommerceguy 6 hours ago||
I feel like these companies are pushing on a string, they are getting desperate to have a profitable product. I'll continue to use my $10 subscription to an AI studio noone here has heard of that has over 150 models. And still use all the free ones, until they quit working.

I really am beyond maxed out at the availability of AI's. They all are so similar now.

codehorses 6 hours ago|
What's the $10 subscription AI studio?
alienbaby 6 hours ago||
Great I thought. I'll go set one up!

To discover the rollout for Pro users does not currenly include the UK :/

jtrn 5 hours ago|
Nor Norway.
SomeonesAccount 4 hours ago|||
Nor Way! I can't believe that. Need something else to Sweden my day :)
santah 4 hours ago|||
Nor the EU :(
sajithdilshan 5 hours ago||
Sounds like a cool concept. But this only make sense for locally running LLMs. Otherwise doesn’t make sense to burn tokens on menial tasks that can be automated via one time generated programming scripts
solarkraft 5 hours ago||
I’m so tired by the AI labs’ 100 agent based products. I understand that they’re still figuring out form factors, but does everything have to be incompatible with everything else?
digitaltrees 5 hours ago|
Actually it seems like their products are designed for maximum token spending. I don’t want to be out of the loop, but they keep pushing multiple automatic actions across agents.
modeless 6 hours ago|
Remarkably similar to Grok Bot. And the Spaces thing seems like a straight clone of Notion.
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