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screenshot of only the tweet by @DKThomp: "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."

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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"

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

A computer can never find out

Therefore a computer must never fuck around

[-] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago

I know I can't be the only one that, even if AI was up to doing all this reliably, wouldn't want AI spending my money on it's own like this, surely? Like, I can be pretty picky and tend to spend a lot of time shopping around for things. A significant fraction of the time I end up deciding not to buy anything because I can't find exactly what I want at a price I'm willing to spend for it. I think I'd get hella stressed out that my AI would just buy the first thing that fit a category, or the cheapest, or whatever some company paid the AI developer to have it prefer, or such like that, and not to mention the worry that I might suggest buying something as a joke to someone else and have the AI hear and take it seriously or something and then my money's gone before I realize.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago

My friends trust llms to tell them what to buy. Surely that will never ne abused by capitalism. People are stupid.

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

Which is doubly hilarious because that's the point of AI anyway.

Hide the web, or any other 'distractions', and just trust this AI 'friend' to make all the best decisions for you.

Fuck I hate this shit.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

And none of them see it. They say I need it or ill be left behind. I can't believe theyre this easily duped.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

This is how democracy dies... with people willingly surrendering it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

because this isn't for us. It's for the ruling class, who have more money than they could ever spend and don't care about anything.

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

Are they also going to spend £500 per token then? Not going to make so much from it if you audience of customers is a few thousand people.

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

I know I can't be the only one that, even if AI was up to doing all this reliably, wouldn't want AI spending my money on it's own like this, surely?

Well, the post you're replying to has at least two people who agree with you, so I'd say probably not the only one, no

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago

Guess who's getting tungsten cubes for his birthday!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Fuck yea I love metallic cubes!

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago

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.

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

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.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

How slow are they making ChatGPT for this to be an overnight task?

[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

It has to call the bowling alley 631 times between 2:10 AM and 10:03 AM when they finally pick up. These things take time.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

No way. The AI would be smart. It would quickly realize they are closed and book lanes in a bowling alley on the other side of the globe

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

"Negotiates 2 slots at the bowling alley" does this guy think you have to Hagel to reserve a bowling lane??

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

See in his future, the bowling ally has an AI that determines the maximum each customer is likely to pay, so yes.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

"176 hour flight to England via 4 layovers in Antarctica" THIS is how you do comedy.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

Yes it would be nice for normal people to afford a secretary or buttler type but ai isn't there yet it needs more time to cook and stop shoving it into things unneeded

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I'm not sure I'd be comfortable having a secretary plan my kids' party (if I had any). It's not really appropriate to mix your work and personal life that much.

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

That's why I mixed in butler I'm not exactly sure what kind of help/assistant would fill role but if we can't get more time off more help would be nice

[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If you use AI to plan your day, you deserve this.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

People are so wealthy at the top that what they want is a secretary but still don't want to pay for one.

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

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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Anyone got that picture of Elsa with three eyes and giant knockers?

[-] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

I'm adding that one to my spank bank.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Anyone got a link to the picture of Elsa ?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

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!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

You should start working as an AI agent, you show promise.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

This makes me wonder, what about promt injection. I'm not aware of a reliable way to protect against prompt injection.

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