Muse’s Flawed Raison D’etre

[Doing is the thing.] Recently, Facebook Meta unveiled Muse, their “personal AI agent built for everyone”. Muse goes beyond just being a chatbot, and will attempt to help accomplish actual tasks. From their introductory post: Muse…doesn’t just answer questions, it actually does the work. It helps people stay on top of things, takes tasks and projects off their plate, and turns long-term goals into action plans. Meta built Muse from the ground up to be a safe, secure, private, and widely available personal AI agent. Each person stays in control of their Muse and decides how much access it gets. Of course, the first big story about Muse was how it read a journalist’s text messages without his permission. Oops. But sure, we should definitely trust Meta with our data this time. Despite the obvious privacy concerns, the potential of this technology is impressive. That same introductory post states that Muse “takes on more of the work so people can focus on what matters to them”. A.I.…