What's wrong with human connection and speaking. :( I feel like the isolation of this modern world is lame.

augment_me 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe you don't want strangers around you hearing you say "Hey Claude wish my grandma happy birthday" as it's not yet morally okay to delegate such social tasks to the models

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233mhz an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Aha what a loser thing to do, I personally have a fleet of 347 agents running 24/7 talking to my parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, asking them how they're doing and wishing them a happy birthday when the time comes. I can finally focus on the important things!

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qwertygnu an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Your example proves their point perfectly. You shouldn't delegate wishing your grandma happy birthday to a fucking AI agent. And you should feel ashamed for doing so. And you should feel the social pressure to hide that fact if you do resort to it.

While this tech doesn't feel quite as dystopian as most recent AI innovations, I do think it is a further step in the direction of human disconnection.

	▲	hk__2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well you both prove each other’s point ;)

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internet_points an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Haha, I can't tell if this is a parody or not

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barbazoo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is no human connection typing words into a box, that's seems like what it's mostly replacing. Talking to your email client, talking to your AI agent. Lots of us are much faster speaking than typing and especially with AI, it doesn't matter a whole lot in my experience how polished the output is, the benefit from ending up with a lot more text because one can just talk freely is very beneficial.

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ShinTakuya 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can see this being useful on public transport where you don't want to bother people while taking notes verbally. It's not all about avoiding connection.

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temp123477 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is more a keyboard killer than a dinner party killer.

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doctorhandshake 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a little like replying to a show HN for a new kind of stylus input device with “what’s wrong with pen and paper”