Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money

Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You’re telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to do with it? The tree just assigned me homework? Oh, our trash collection company canceled our account out of nowhere and now I have to send email about it? Repeatedly? Totally unfair. These are the things that we’ve been told for years that AI will help us with. We’ll all have a smart virtual assistant to triage and handle the tedious tasks we’d rather not face. If you believe Meta, that future is available right now in the form of Muse, its AI agent for the masses. I put it to the test doing exactly what it’s advertised to do: taking care of tedious crap I’ve been putting off for ages. And it worked better than I expected — especially when there was a credit card transaction to be made. Marley — one of the suggested names you…