Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Just Blew My Mind! (Real-World Test)

Summary

The video is an enthusiastic, week-long real-world review of Meta’s Muse AI assistant. The presenter says Muse feels different from a chatbot because it can carry out multi-step tasks on its own and notify the user when it is finished.

How Muse Works

• Muse is accessed through a phone app, but its tasks run in the cloud using an agent-specific computer and web browser. This allows work to continue while the user is away.
• Users can connect apps and choose how much permission to grant. The presenter recommends starting with limited control, especially for consequential actions such as purchases or reservations.
• Muse can also suggest follow-up actions based on connected information, such as reminding the user to contact someone.

Tasks Tested

1. Creating an Excel order form: The presenter supplied a color chart and asked Muse to create a spreadsheet listing the colors in order, with prices and formulas to calculate totals from entered quantities.
2. Checking prices: Muse can research a product and watch for price drops. The presenter described this as potentially useful during shopping periods such as holiday sales.
3. Reconciling customer orders: Muse scanned photos of an incomplete, outdated order form, compared the customer’s selections with a pasted list of out-of-stock items, identified affected colors, and corrected the prices and total. The presenter said this saved time and was completed quickly.

Review and Practical Notes

The presenter found Muse easy to set up and accessible even for people with little technical experience. The review is strongly positive, but the presenter could not find pricing information and did not know how many tokens particular tasks use. They reported that Muse was free for them at the time of recording.

The presenter also discussed invite codes, saying referrals may provide credits or tokens, though they were unsure how the system worked. They offered codes that needed to be activated promptly.

Instinct is briefly teased as another invitation-only AI product; its features are not reviewed in the video.

Main Speakers and Sources

• Rich Rose: The video’s presenter and Muse user, who provides the review and demonstrations.
• Muse (“Pip”): The AI agent, represented through the presenter’s descriptions of its responses and completed tasks.