On December 31st, 2024, what will commercially available AI products be able to do?
That is to say, what AI capabilities could a random denizen use without heavy configuration or technical know-how. If step one of your answer for how to do something involves “training a model/GPT”, or “gathering a good data test set”, this is not capability of a commercially available product.
Feel free to add more! But be prepared for my potential deluge of clarifying questions. Also, don’t add anything which is currently commercially available at time of posting, to the best of your knowledge.
Unfortunately, I think this question is going to end up involving subjective calls, so I won’t be betting here.
Clarifications!
For a video being “animated” vs. “live-action”, I think the Paddington movie is the perfect example. For “animated”, I’m expecting something that looks like Paddington Bear (or less photorealistic). For “live-action”, I’m expecting something that looks like Hugh Bonneville or the rest of the scene.
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Excited to start testing these next month!
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@shankypanky I don't know if anyone else solved this, but the only stories I can find make it sound like a NO. For example:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-19/self-driving-cars-kangaroo-research/103993614
Amit says it's not detecting kangaroos that complicates self-driving cars in Australia, it's "predicting how they're going to act next".
"When we did a study, we found that with less effort, we were able to detect kangaroos, but we did not have enough data to come to conclusions on how algorithms can predict their behaviour."
@mattyb what was the product which allowed this to resolve YES? I think parts were covered but don’t know of any which could do all of this autonomously in 2024 in my experience.
@LiamZ here's an example of someone using a commercially-available AI to accomplish these things:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1dp8mjy/i_made_an_ai_concierge_that_makes_it_easier_to/
@shankypanky thanks, they had to hack this together though and the market was focused on existing commercial products.

It’s wrapping Gemini but not out of the box Gemini.
@LiamZ I'll unresolved for now, I need to log off for the night I've been working through the mod queue for a lot of the day and I'm fried lol
will pick this back up tomorrow.
@LiamZ Isn't the existence of this person sharing the tool for others to use, now 'available'?
A lot of this feels like a gray area. Without the original creator it's a lot of guessing.
@Eliza my thoughts are similar - I interpreted the market as commercially-available capabilities, not a commercially-available product designed for [x] purpose. I'm not sure to what degree people assumed the latter over the former on the options added here...
@shankypanky the market description mentions “capability of a commercially available product” so I took it to mean commercially available products.
@Eliza for this, I think it’s a little hard to evaluate now unfortunately because it seems like the project may be dead and gone, it wasn’t commercial but explicitly a small hacky side project, and we can’t test whether it actually worked in 2024 now, no one in the comments mentions actually using it and the user was pushing people to sign up for personal mailing list so it’s hard to say if it actually functioned with any consistency or was just a little proof of concept to get hype and attention. My instinct is that if Gemini worked well on this then we’d see a site like OpenTable launching a commercial product to do so or Google integrating it directly into their assistant.
I don’t envy having to make this call though.
@LiamZ admittedly I was talking through this market with @Eliza in the mod channel on Discord to get some support in resolving some of these. neither of I are experts but decided to resolve what we felt confident enough to make a call on at the time. I found that specific solution after I saw your ping and generally speaking, we resolved based on the idea that with a booking system's API and existing capabilities, a person could use AI to select a table, add a comment, and send an email (barring any CAPTCHA etc). of course, we were thinking of commercially-available capabilities and not a packaged commercially-available product.
I'll do another search and I'll review the remaining options. obviously as we see it's a little more challenging to pick this up nearly 6 months after the market closed so we'll have to do our best to avoid NA where we can but I'm open to canceling options that can't be confidently resolved either way.
just thought I'd chime in for context. I put some time in on this one a bit later today and hope we can resolve all the remaining options.
Thanks, from the description and limited comments at the time it seemed like the creator was requiring full commercial products so I can say I was betting based on that emphasis rather than things that seemed just potentially feasible from a technical perspective https://manifold.markets/mattyb/ai-capabilities-2024-mega-market#2vlxz361zid
@shankypanky also for this specific option there wasn’t any push back at the time for my belief here https://manifold.markets/mattyb/ai-capabilities-2024-mega-market#3hnh5lfsnr6
Edit: That is to say, that example might have been an arguable gray area for making a reservation but it’s getting into the weeds unnecessarily because it didn’t do any scheduling between friends so wouldn’t handle the whole task anyway. If the question was just interacting with an API it would have been N/A’d as that was possible at option creation time.
@shankypanky The article looks very AI generated itself it mentions no sources or product names. Where's the commercial product that allows me to do that without technical know-how? Is there a YouTube video I can watch of a coherent AI DND game?
found at least two instances of this, resolving Yes
https://www.wired.com/story/bland-ai-chatbot-human/
https://www.businessinsider.com/catholic-priest-ai-defrocked-2024-4
it seems AutoMod covers this - resolving Yes
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4421269296535-AutoMod-FAQ
@shankypanky IDK, first off all I see nothing about AI on the faq page, it looks like a conventional word filter.
Secondly, it requires you to set up banned words manually, you can't just feed it arbitrary server rules in a natural language.
@mattyb I don’t know of any product even now that can actually fully do this autonomously so probably a NO