Gadgets & Gizmos: The downside of AI agents, reducing blood pressure and crying robots

Well, we talked last week about the new Siri on, uh-

I remember

... iPhones and, and iPads and macOS.

Yes.

Which is finally doing what Apple claimed that Apple Intelligence, so-called Apple Intelligence, would do when they introduced it a few years ago.

Yes.

Which is to integrate with your iPhone, and looks through your, with your emails, and your texts, and your, looks at your photos, so you can ask for it to do things, uh, and it will know who you are and know a lot about you.

Mm.

And then it'll do appropriate things.

Yes.

Um, or rather it'll tell you appropriate things, it won't do appropriate things.

Uh, unlike Meta, who have just launched Muse, which they describe as the world's first personal AI agent.

Ooh.

So the difference between AI chatbots and AI agents is that AI agents can take action of their own accord.

And talk about you behind your back, given what you've said in previous episodes.

And indeed behind your back.

So they make a big thing about the fact that it can, it can send emails for you.

It can open browser windows and fill in online forms, and it can pay for things.

Although, when it pays for things, apparently it ha- uses a special one-time use card supplied by Blink.

Mm.

So people can't clone the details and use it for other things.

And they also launched the Muse Charm.

The Muse Charm you wear around your neck.

It looks a bit like a Tamagotchi, if you remember Tamagotchis-

I do