Proactive behavior

Instinct is the most capable and most proactive agent we've used, and the hardest to get into. … In our testing the proactivity is what separates it: it follows up threads you dropped and nudges you about what you forgot. … Concierge (Sept 16) makes real phone calls; a Trusted Person network lets your Instinct coordinate with family members' Instincts (Sept 9).

While Muse is powerful, I've decided to send this data goblin back to its cave, and deleted the app after my initial experiments. Before I could remove Muse from my phone, the agent sent me one final ping. A tip! I wonder what it could be. "Connect your apps so I can do more," the notification read.

My quality of life has improved since I handed my kids’ school logistics over to Grok Bot. Weekday morning digest with the calendar plus what actually needs me. Separate agents per kid pull grades, assignments due, and portal info, dig through school email, triage act-now vs FYI, draft replies I approve, help fill out forms, remind me about payments, flag deadlines. Mental load of two schools into one short brief. Game changer for parents.

Instinct monitors flight prices continuously. Sometimes I get notifications about lower fares that only last a few hours. That's how you snag a deal!

$META Muse even just randomly suggests things in chat that it will do for me… …and they have been spot on. …and I simply click “Let’s do it.” Word.

I asked Muse to monitor prices from Newark to Haneda for a 3-month trip beginning in January. It did a good job of searching flight prices, finding a ticket for $2,000 on United. I asked it to continue monitoring the route to see if prices drop. This is where Muse fell short. Muse only offered to check fares once a week. That's not nearly enough to find great deals. I got Muse to check twice a day, but that still could miss some great fares.

Instinct has shown me that it can derive context and establish a sense of timing. I haven't seen another agent combine the two this successfully. I've been using it for a week. ... Instinct has done a phenomenal job of recognizing when a conversation from last week coincides with my calendar for next week. It recognizes these events as part of the same story, and it is proactive in texting me before I've even realized there was something to address. ... Example: on Day 2 after only having access to my inbox, it figured out my entire trip to Italy and proactively offered to schedule the train rides between cities, which I hadn't done yet.

I am shocked. After playing with Muse by Meta for an hour in just chat mode, I was impressed enough to: I never use Apple Reminders so I gave Muse read access to Reminders. I asked Muse to schedule repeating tasks that only involve web search e.g., every other morning find sci-fi movies playing in my city, 3pm EST stock market summary, etc. I also permanently set my food preferences and just naming any restaurant in town gets me an accurate list of recommendations with costs and descriptions.