alt Hacker NewsSo i feel like this might be the most overhyped project in the past longer time.
I don't say it doesn't "work" or serves a purpose - but well i read so much about this beein an "actual intelligence" and stuff that i had to look into the source.
As someone who spends actually a definately to big portion of his free time researching thought process replication and related topics in the realm of "AI" this is not really more "ai" than any other so far.
Just my 3 cents.
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I think large parts of the "actual intelligence" stems from two facts:
* The moltbots / openclaw bots seem to have "high agency", they actually do things on their own (at least so it seems)
* They interact with the real world like humans do: Through text on WhatsApp, reddit like forums
These 2 things make people feel very differently about them, even though it's "just" LLM generated text like on ChatGPT.
Its what everyone wanted to implement but didn’t have the time to. Just my 2cents.
I was assuming this is largely a generic AI implementation, but with tools/data to get your info in. Essentially a global search with ai interface.
Which sounds interesting, while also being a massive security issue.
Somethings get packaged up and distributed in just the right way to go viral
> So i feel like this might be the most overhyped project in the past longer time.
easy to meter : 110k Github stars
:-O
Feels very much like a Flappingbird with a dash of AI grift.
I've long said that the next big jump in "AI" will be proactivity.
So far everything has been reactive. You need to engage a prompt, you need to ask Siri or ask claude to do something. It can be very powerful once prompted, but it still requires prompting.
You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer.
Whether this particular project delivers on that promise I don't know, but I wouldn't write off "getting proactivity right" as the next big thing just because under the hood it's agents and LLMs.