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I've tried Dots and it doesn't suck...

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But it's not great through... So far I've been playing with it since the rollout. It's good for nonlinear asynchronous multitasking, where you bomb it with your ideas, hop into side quests, and totally forget what you were doing a minute ago. The good part - it works well where there is a straightforward path. Like browse a site, grab some info, propose some solutions. And it gets stuck when there is no connection, there's firewall or captcha, or it has no idea what is going on there and its solutions just suck so I end by having to do it myself anyway... Yep, and it has its own computer, so I can ask it to do some stuff, like make a short music video and come back with result. Or browse the internet and do some stuff. The asynchronous part is good: you can continue bombing it with other tasks while it works. And it could not tell me which model it is. It feels different from Astra in regular chats... And it happily launches multiple helper agents like ultra chats. I specifically asked my dot to question its agents, and after quite a while, it reported that they didn't know either. It seems to have a pretty good sense of what's going on across some of my other chats. For instance, I asked it to sort out my ChatGPT Library, and it took a while and didn't finish everything. But it routinely sorted it out by project and along the way, showed me a visual overview of what it could not identify so I could give it hints. It can make a personal avatar for itself and set it up without further input from me. So, overall: It is nice for daily multitasking. And it could potentially become something big, like the movie Her, but we're not there yet.

First-hand Dots field report (r/ChatGPT, 'Use cases' flair): MisfiledCentury's Dot made a short music video asynchronously, browsed sites to grab info and propose solutions, sorted their ChatGPT Library by project with a visual overview of unidentified items, and set its own personal avatar — flagging where it still stalls (firewalls, captchas, unfinished library sort).

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