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Moltbot has been garnering lots of attention in the AI space.
The tool's developer describes it as "the AI that actually does things."
It's best to run Moltbot in a silo, like the 2024 M4 Mac Mini.
One of the biggest ongoing challenges AI developers face is building agents that have tangible, practical, and broad-scale utility. Many agents might perform well in narrow domains, such as managing email or debugging code. However, the reality of an AI system that can be trusted to handle a wide range of tasks autonomously remains a distant dream. Meanwhile, persistent problems with hallucinations and security have limited the adoption of agents among businesses.
That's what makes the sudden, viral popularity of Moltbot -- billed by its maker as "the AI that actually does things" -- so significant.
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Moltbot is promoted as an AI assistant that can manage virtually every aspect of your digital life -- sending emails, managing your Google Calendar, opening an airline's app to check you into an upcoming flight, and so on. But like any other AI assistant that requires access to your personal accounts, it also comes with security risks.
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