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BRITOTHDYA PRRRYT (original tweet in post for better clarity) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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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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[-] jontree255@lemmy.world 130 points 2 weeks ago

Roundabout way to say “I’m a bad parent”.

I don’t have kids but pretty sure part of being a parent and forming a bond with your child is putting effort into raising them.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 weeks ago

ChatGPT will know what they like so you don’t have to.

[-] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 112 points 2 weeks ago

How is the AI supposed to schedule with venues while you're sleeping? Aren't the people who run the venues also sleeping?

[-] gex@lemmy.world 150 points 2 weeks ago

Your agent would communicate with the venue's agent, after some negotiation they would agree on $400 dollars for a 7.5 minute party for 5000 children

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 77 points 2 weeks ago

after some negotiation they would agree on $400 dollars for a 7.5 minute party for 5000 children

Both AI agents assume that all children are perfectly spherical and the venue exists exclusively with no atmosphere in a vacuum.

[-] Uli@sopuli.xyz 37 points 2 weeks ago

That's a great idea! Treating the children like perfectly spherical objects will let us calculate the flow of children through the bowling alley more like particles through a garden hose. Since we can accommodate many more children this way, let's expand the invitations to the entire school contacts list, with the new subject line, "Your child-sized balls are cordially invited!" The invitations are sent and your wife's travel plans have been amended to a one-day round trip starting and ending at the same airport to save on airfare costs. Is there anything else you need help with?

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

I almost thought this was a real ChatGPT response lol

[-] bhsuarez@infosec.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lol

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[-] makyo@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

They recently had the AI village experiment AI plan and carry out an event. They did finally have the event but there were some hiccups like they had to keep reminding the AIs that they were not coporeal and could not do things like drive to pick up the cake or make and bring signs to the event.

[-] Ramenator@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of Anthropics AI store experiment

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 60 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] msage@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks 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.

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[-] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks 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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[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 weeks ago

Guess who's getting tungsten cubes for his birthday!

[-] Baguette 12 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck yea I love metallic cubes!

[-] Sonor@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Could you take this off my colony? We no longer like it.

[-] ansiz@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] ansiz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Is it really haggling or more just sorting through prices offered by different sites and airlines? You can't really negotiate a lower price, but you can choose layovers, different flights, times to save money.

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[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks 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

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks 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

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks 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

[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 18 points 2 weeks ago

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

A computer can never find out

Therefore a computer must never fuck around

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 weeks ago

I’ve got you!

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I'm adding that one to my spank bank.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I know we’re mostly joking about how shitty AI currently is, but for the sake of the future, smarter AIs, don’t give them the ability to go contact others and spend money. That’s how you get the paper clip/stamp machine apocalypse.

[-] ksigley@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone got a link to the picture of Elsa ?

[-] kayzeekayzee 23 points 2 weeks 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!

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] ksigley@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

A mastapiece.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

BRITOTHDYA PRRRYT

https://youtu.be/OsCu-Wg02Fg

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