Cowork (Anthropic) to tame large inventories
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Dictatorshop Resident
Hear me out. If cowork can organise years and years of harddrive mess, identify and remove duplicate items, then there MUST be a way to do it for inventory items. Seriously, I would pay real money to have a LL approved and trained ai get in there and do some heavy cleaning.
Think of all the storage space you could save, LL. And all the user time saved when people can find their stuff. If it was a LL initiated tool, it would be able to know things not necessarily available to users - like object creator without having to rez it first. It could know categories of things and what percentage of users delete a freebie set from 2008. If the helper ai was presented as another avatar you could talk to, it could just ask intelligent questions like, do you want all the freebies you gathered at the newbies hubs? If not easy clean, or simply moving it all into a "pre trash" folder so the user can have a look at it before the final chuck.
And have it read all the notecards, figure out if there is anything important, if so categorize and if not pre or trash it. The ai could ask, you have ten years with of grid affairs notecards those are all in the past, keep and organise or delete?
If this could all happen in a private space where the ai could assist with the identification and outcome for the 1000 things called object in your inventory by doing a quick rez, you give it the thumbs down, gone. Thumbs up initiated a rename where possible and it's pushed into the new organisation structure. The user would have feedback in the proposed organisation so that they can actually figure out what is what after.
This last thing would require user interactions but if the ai is presented as an Avi it amounts to body doubling and more people might get further in the process than they do now 'just trying to get organised '
EVEN just some fundamental help could help, this could be billed as a one off service, or perhaps a once per year included at the highest tier.
I hope this doesn't seem too far out there, because currently available tech COULD do this, it would just need the right access and implementation.
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Wicked Nightfall
AI is nowhere near ready to do that.
primerib1 Resident
With the recent A.I. disaster story that befell Meta's Director for A.I. Safety, in which an agent she made nuked her inbox even if she had EXPLICITLY said do not perform the cleanup just analysis + the agent refusing to stop when EXPLICITLY ordered to ...
... do you really honestly want to hand over management of your Inventory to an A.I. agent that has quite significant probability of running amok and deleting ALL your inventory irretrievably?
Strong NOPE for this suggestion.
NaluriMurai Lust
primerib1 Resident Seconded. Painful as it is, I'll leave wardrobe and inventory management to my Mk.I eyeballs, hands and the thinking machine we humans have been endowed with from word go, thanks.
Devilgrey Resident
yeah no. i dont want ai in my inventory. i moved to linux to avoid windows 11 for a reason.
Devilgrey Resident
i really like the inventory preview images to help me find stuff in my inventory other than using a lot of folders. maybe just add more tools like that to make sorting easier? like dang being able to add custom tags or what not to things for filtering
Loni Onyx
my inventory is a nightmare, I log on my avatar and open my inventory and sigh, then I log off not wanting to deal with it and not able to find anything. I am discouraged about even being in sl anymore because of it.
Jelly Doll
Loni Onyx BING ! A dialog pops up and declares your inventory sorted.
You're in the exact position you're in now. Unless you put the time in to learn the new sorting structure and where things went, you're never going to know.
If you can't face your inventory, time to roll a new avatar and start from scratch
Charlotte Holmeforth
You could let an AI do all the sorting, but if your problem is that you dont know what is what and what's where, if the AI sorts it you still wont know.
An AI wont know what to do with 1000 objects called Object or what you want to keep or what things actually are and what they do. It seems to me we need improvements to inventory so it's easier to find and inspect objects, more than we need AI.
What if LL added an 'inventory organiser' avatar permission, so we could specify which avatars can view and edit inventory but not rez, mod, copy, transfer or delete anything. Then anyone could get a friend who likes organising to help out, or use an AI bot if they want to risk it.
NaluriMurai Lust
Yeah, No.
researched Resident
NO ABSOLUTELY NO! Would be better just to fundamentally do an inventory rework
Timothy McGregor
The underlying problem is this:
In the indended use cases for cowork, its able to read the content of your files, and understanding what each one fundamentally is based on its content. It can then make intelligent organizational decisions.
In SL inventory, it only sees the asset name, type and key.. maybe some orher meta attributes as well. It has no idea what the object actually is or what it represents when it's rendered in the viewer. It cant know this. Inventory items are just pointers to assets in the asset store. The assets themselves dont live in your inventory.
So the idea of having it sort and organize 1000 objects named object is intriguing but not possible in any way i can imagine.
Avariel Falcon
No! No! And also No! Don’t make me stomp my hooves!
Niri Neon
You keep AI out of my inventory, d'ya hear?
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