Comment by mattbrewsbytes
5 days ago
Whats the use case where this, or other personal assistant/agents, are helpful and not gimmicky for average consumers (i.e. not tech nerds like all of us)? Say a person that is a car salesperson at a dealer? Or a teacher?
What would they use this for in their personal life? What does it unlock that they can't do today? Scheduling things? Buying things? These are so easy now for nearly anything. Reminders? phones have apps for that, computers do too. People can already dictate all sorts of things via speech (siri, etc.)
I totally get the professional use cases, I just don't see B2C other than gimmicky things. So I think that means Muse/Meta wins this out, people using that have already succumbed to giving up their data for "free".
These are not my words but someone mentioned these (probably hard) use cases that I think make sense for these agents but they're not there yet:
- Regularly get insurance (car/home) quotes
- Negotiate medical bills / help understand bills in general
- Analyze credit card spending / sort of like mint.com experience
- Advice on financial products (e.g. use money market for X sum vs having all your money in 0% checking) - sort of like a financial advisor
- Taxes and rebates, deal with IRS
- Reach out to Utility or whatever companies and file complains (saw this on Reddit where some guy's personal bot reached out to Verizon to complain about loose pole wires)
So it's practical time saving use cases...not a restaurant reservation or remind me about X or help me clean my mailbox BS cases. That stuff if for techies like us is useless but you have to start somewhere
so it can do what I can do with claude? what the diff? its on their vm? so for people that doesnt have computer?
Agreed. None of what they have shown seems to offer any substantial long term value