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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

The cute ‘agents’ Meta and OpenAI want to run your life – and the sinister motive behind them

OpenAI has become just the latest company to launch a cuddly, cute new artificially intelligent assistant in its ‘Dots’ tool – and proclaimed it to be the future.

The ChatGPT maker joins Meta, which earlier this month revealed its new “Muse” assistant. Both of the tools are versions of long-promised “agentic” AI, where an artificial intelligence tool is able to take actions on its own, in the real world.

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