Based on the intro video on their website and the linked article, it's an LLM agent for your Mac, so in short, what Apple Intelligence should've been from the very start. Create calendar events, look up information, send messages, etc.
Where a lot of these tools fail is "first instruction accuracy". Put another way, what percent of requests are fulfilled accurately without needing to clarify your intention to the AI.
For voice assistants to really work, they need to nail the request on the first attempt in 95%+ of cases.
When the first time success rate for a request drops too low, it indeed becomes way easier to just do it yourself rather than asking the voice assistant for help.
The fact that we haven't solved this problem for basic things like turning on or off a TV doesn't give me much confidence in the future of voice assistants. I find myself frustratingly repeating commands to Siri way too often.
Yeah, I mean AI bros from valley can partner with "small businesses" like bars, clubs, bowling alleys, restaurants and fill those rooms with more people by auto signing them. Life is all about experiences as a service. Not the boring old stuff that one can buy outright from the stores.
Author here: it apparently does it _very_, very well. Based on the few sample interactions I've seen and read about, it makes Claude Desktop look like a Ford Model T in terms of polish and overall look and feel.
I'm not overly crazy about the logo and buttons underneath the interactive windows, but the way it can infer window content and structure from any app (either by leveraging Accessibility or by just hacking at it I'm not sure yet, but one of the demos requires good UI introspection) makes it seem much better integrated than anything else I've used so far.
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