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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by pj_mukh on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @05:33PM (#41062401)
What I want is a truly personal assistant (which LLM's should be capable of). Alexa can barely get me answers to google-able questions.

If I could be assured of privacy issues, I'd be happy to give it access to my email, calendar, bank accounts etc. and then let me just use it like a Chief of Staff.

I know another company is going to come do this, but it's crazy that that company may not be Alexa/Google.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by willsmith72 on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @05:38PM (#41062440)
Why is that so simple? I've had online bank accounts, calendars and emails for many years now, but I still can't do a "text search" across all of them. Isn't the LLM the easy part? How do you link and connect all the different systems you interact with?
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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by pj_mukh on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @05:40PM (#41062453)
I mean at its core operating a bank account, an email and a calendar is just running operations on a browser.

LLM's can do that (ex: https://www.skyvern.com or https://www.gumloop.com).

edit: Though more generally, I can see a future where all these operations are essentially different functions in a function calling system.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by n_plus_1_acc on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @06:38PM (#41062963)
Letting an LLM use my banking login is now one of my wordt nightmarrs. Thanks, i hate it.
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