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Emu Concept – Make AI Follows Your Rules. (Feedback Wanted)

4•JariwalaH•2h ago
The idea is how can we make personal agent apps on the phone just listen to your rules... Like it's weird to have Muse, Grok Bot, Dots, Instinct not ask me about when I want them to work for me or align with my rules, values, and goals.

If I give these agents access to tools/connectors/data they just "assume" what I want or what it should do rather than asking me? And even if I set these for a specific agent then what happens when a newer personal agent comes out? Do I have to reconfigure again my rules for each flavor of personal agents or harness?

This is where our initial idea stems from and we need feedback:

Emu is a self-learning on-device AI guardian that makes AI agents follow your rules. Also the video above kind of just highlights Emu's concept thought process.

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verdverm•2h ago
they aren't going to follow rules reliably, they need to be trained with these recognize ambiguity and ask patterns

unfortunately, the labs have different goals that are not aligned with uses who want this

current training is try anything any everything to get the task done, human free operations... it sells more tokens, they have massive investments and debt to return on

JariwalaH•2h ago
Well what if we were to put an on-device SLM with our custom RL algorithms, Jev-like capabilities for certain risk thresholds of user’s individual preferences of allowing, denying, and asking user when an agent should and shouldn’t act…(some deterministic enforcement where needed)

Like Muse, Grok bot’s own agents can govern themselves it’ll be kind of bias if the agents knows its own rules and can try to circumvent it or rule hack around if its being trained on RLHF or even if the RLVR optimize for calling tools/data exfiltrating constantly

verdverm•2h ago
Battery usage, people don't want their phone to go into coma so quickly

I'm not even sure what I need an LLM to do with/on my phone, what are people using these things for?

Also, I have zero trust for Jev like models and use rerankers/policy-tuned llms for some of what you are concerned with

JariwalaH•1h ago
Hahaha fair point, we are actually testing with a small language model ( on test flight) and it seems fine with the battery on my old iphone 12 pro!

But these are things that we can optimize/research and get tech to work well if users find value from it basically...

Well think of it like a natural extension to apple's iOS, intelligence, utility really from a always "human-in-the-loop" notifications, alerts, across your other personal agent apps like Muse, Grok Bot, Dots, Instinct, etc.. making other AI agents align with your boundaries, rules, values, etc.

People are using Muse to book, send, etc but they make mistakes so essentially avoid things like this - https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/metas-muse-ai-g...

verdverm•1h ago
I've turned off all the Ai stuff on my device, I want none of Big Ai
ayeeeceee•2h ago
Hmmm so basically why AI agents get to learn about me but I dont have one set of rules that follows me across all of them

Well I got a chance to look at the website seems interesting enough a mailbox to manage your personal agents with rules? https://trinitite.ai/

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