Essay says Gibson’s AI assistant Eunice is nearly here
Original title: Eunice is almost here
The post likens Eunice’s off-screen actions in Agency to GPT-Live, Dessa, Dots and Muse.
A short essay recalls William Gibson’s 2020 novel Agency, in which tester Verity finds that experimental assistant Eunice has already acted on a Zurich account while they talked. The author says today’s full-duplex systems and always-on agents resemble that behavior. Named examples are GPT-Live, Block’s Dessa, OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse. The piece offers no new research, release or incident.
Unconfirmed: The essay asserts those named products exist but does not cite releases or independent confirmation.
- Agency was published in 2020, before ChatGPT, the essay says.
- Eunice is described moving money from a no-name Zurich account during a conversation.
- The author cites GPT-Live and Block’s Dessa for human-like full-duplex talk.
- OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse are described as 24/7 goal-pursuing agents.
From the original article
1 min read at armincat.comWilliam Gibson's Agency (2020) is a mind-bending science fiction novel. Without getting lost in its intricate plot, one storyline takes place in an alternate San Francisco in 2017, where a young woman named Verity is hired to test an experimental AI assistant called Eunice. Eunice: "This no-name account, in Zurich.
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