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Orange site having trouble finding actual production use cases of AI "agents" (news.ycombinator.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Another thing I've found actually works pretty well is setting up two computers next to each other with ChatGPT voice mode, if you give them custom instructions to be sure to wait for the other one to be done talking, they don't interrupt each other and can get quite a bit of work done. Here is just a video of the mvp that I sent to a friend ages ago once I started playing with the idea: https://s.h4x.club/kpuzNkNL - I actually use this method of working quite often now, couple times a week at least, I find it's pretty helpful. If I knew how to put 4/5 modals together in one app and give them each custom instructions, I'd love to try building a team (if someone out there actually knows how to build this kinda stuff, I'm happy to help flesh out how the product would need to work, but I don't think it's super difficult to build at this point, I'm just not technical enough)

you must click the video link

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Cargo cult business meeting

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They posted an update:

4hours later I now have a complete marketing department of agents, it works pretty well actually. I gave it a high level task around building a full campaign, and it is. Here is the social media manager agent off on it's own composing the tweets, the social media manager agent is build with 4 internal agents, but calls out to my hackernews agent and my google search agent when needed. It actually works super well... you can see it running here, the manager even told it to do all the tweets for the year, so I presume it's going to stop at 365 tweets, https://s.h4x.club/eDubwABJ

So their use case appears to be effective spam distribution, or "social media marketing campaigns".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

omg I can't wait until they recreate the automated rubbish lawsuits from Accelerando

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This has some real "furbies talking to eachother" energy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This only convinces me AI can replace venture capitalists, not that it can do any actual work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

For real.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

you must click the video link

the video title alone made me flinch, then the video started

also wtf at the custom url, I guess s is their "share domain" under their domain that looks extremely like a spam domain[0]

then searching up around that name, one finds this (warning: linkedin) with "4 followers", and a smattering of vc sauce in all the associated/cluster shit

god these people are just so fucking exhausting

[0] - spammers fuckin love many of the new TLDs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

@sc_griffith @dgerard wait what's the fucking point of this? Does this dude not have any real friends?

Oh wait I think that answers itself...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Wow, AI excels at bullshitting. Looks like the CEO AI is going to happen way before the first general utility AI.

If I was these Techbros I would pull the plug immediately. They have invented their replacement!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Wait a second... isn't this agent-gpt / auto-gpt stuff way back when 3.5 Turbo was a thing?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Agents without agency is some real double speak and might reflect how many view workers.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

reminiscent of:

Ask HN: Are there any substantial examples of blockchain solving a real problem? (2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22914430

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Well that was amusing

Asking "what is blockchain good for other than cryptocurrencies" is like asking "what is internet good for other than websites" pre-broadband

Days since last "bitcoin is like the early internet": zero :(

I’d like to go back to 1988 and ask “Is anyone actually using the Internet?”

Days since last "bitcoin is like the early internet": zero :(

So therefore, email will never become as popular as sending envelope mails. I rest my case.

Days since last "bitcoin is like the early internet": zero :(