Agent fetches US Open Jumbotron footage in 18 hours after user told it was impossible
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-06
A user and her boyfriend appeared on the US Open Jumbotron and assumed the footage was unobtainable — until she asked the Instinct agent, which retrieved the video within 18 hours. The retweeter jokes that Instinct is now "changing my passwords without asking."
A small but telling demo of autonomous agents completing real-world, multi-step retrieval tasks that humans had written off.
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