AI has a career and an apartment for you.

Manus wants your kids to share a bedroom. It wants you to be a petroleum engineer. And it doesn't know anything about New York City.

Nice herringbone floors.

Back to politics soon, I promise, with some lowkey antifa action items, LAAI, which you can do even if you’re scared or tired or both.

But for now more on that other source of humming panic: AI. Today I have some good news:

The very best AI agent available—the brand-new Chinese AI agent Manus—is hopeless at doing a simple human favor, the kind you’d do for a friend. Weirder still: it thinks it’s great at this particular favor.

Manus is an autonomous AI agent by Butterfly Effect, a Chinese startup based in Wuhan, where all famous things evidently originate. Because Manus scores so high on GAIA benchmarks, which evaluate AI, people are jumping to say we finally have Artificial General Intelligence, AGI—the kind of highly autonomous robot that surpasses human cognitive capabilities!

We’re not there yet.

See how well you think Manus did finding a Manhattan apartment for a family that makes a whopping $50,000/month.