Curious. anyone here allow agents to make purchase decisions of >$100?
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7 hours ago
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Is there anyone who has this level of trust on their AI agent? If so, how did you set it up in such a way that you can trust it to make the same decisions you would?
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skoskie
5 hours ago
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I don't yet know how to give it money to spend. I could give it a small crypto wallet, but few places accept that as currency. I was thinking of using one of those virtual credit card services that lets me set limits and block certain merchants. I will treat it like an intern. If it can show responsibility and reliability with small amounts then I will slowly increase its spending limit over time (and depending on the nature of the tasks it's performing).
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adityasriram
2 hours ago
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yeah, like the robinhood credit card has an option where you can set it to make just one purchase and then become inactive. that's an option. what kinda purchases would you be thinking of making - professional like paying for ads online, or personal like buying a pair of shoes or something?
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cableshaft
7 hours ago
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No.

I don't even trust myself to make purchase decisions >$100. I'm probably going to make a bad purchase decision >$100 tonight.

Probably involving a board game.

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adityasriram
2 hours ago
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lol, same xD
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skyberrys
6 hours ago
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No not at all. I only use AI assistants for help with price comparison of things when I'm in the grocery store and want to know what of the salsas is the best price without preservatives or other things like that.
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adityasriram
2 hours ago
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ooh, does that help? or does it hallucinate a lot?

I made this for myself a while ago: https://rewardsgenie.calstudio.com/ it's a tool that tells me what's the most rewarding credit card to use for any purchase, but even with good context, it would sometimes make stuff up so I kinda stopped caring

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restlessforge
7 hours ago
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I feel like this is one of those things that people do for an experiment or headline but not in actual practice I'd be interested to see anyone who legitimately hands the keys over to their agents though
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adityasriram
2 hours ago
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ikr? I keep hearing about people claim that they're handing over the keys to agents to make purchases for their businesses and it freaks me out to just think about it.

I was checking out polsia.com which says it autonomously builds a company for you - but it made a lot of random assumptions and built something completely different from what I wanted, and then asked me for my credit card details to start running marketing promos and I immediately stopped my fun little experiment

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