Comment by zitterbewegung

4 hours ago

This looks exiting for tinkerers. This feels like the early days of voice assistants again except it’s more AI driven this time.

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ORDINAND_PIZZA  3 hours ago

yes, but:

why build here? why should we grow our gardens in this factory farm?

if this muse gadget seems so cool, why not make your own?

don’t outsource your curiosity to people like this, they do not care about you, your family, or your livelihood. they want to control you; this is their toy that they made for you to become fascinated by

  • vineyardmike  2 hours ago

    First, the muse gadget is just an API and SDK. It’s a fun toy for silly projects.

    The software world is spoiled in that making something new is just text in a file, we’ve proliferated open source freeware, and with AI we can readily clone entire products in a weekend.

    Sometimes though, people like to use commercial products for various reasons (reliability, cost, network effect, etc). If you like to tinker, this seems like a neat way for some without yak shaving an AI assistant along the way. We don’t need to reinvent every wheel for everything.

    I personally think “embodied” assistants are a really fun idea, and this is just an API and SDK to build on and it’s super accessible to basically everyone in the world. If you were inclined to use Muse already, why not tinker with this. I’m sure the hardware would be easy enough to point to an API running on your own server later if you wanted.