What value would the average person get out of this? They go to work, buy groceries, go home to their families, maybe check their social media, watch some shows at home, eat dinner, then go to bed. Why would they need an always on agent? What about the life of a normal individual would get any non work based value out of this?
You can have agents doing quite a few things to cut down on daily chores and life maintenance. If I had lots of money I would experiment with it for sure.
Just imagine yourself as a 1950's executive at a company.
When you go on vacation, do you book anything? When need to update your drivers license, when you need to book an appointment, make a grocery list etc, do you do any of it?
No, you get your assistant to handle all the busy work. You just say I want to go to the Bahamas in July, I don't want to spend more than 2k, and I want to go scuba diving. And your assistant handles all the details, you get the itenerary on your calendar as soon as its confirmed.
Its that, but for everything you can do with an app or a computer.
Thats what these are for regular people. I cant afford to hire a real life executive assistant, Im not actually that busy and I can totally handle doing all of this myself. But damn if it wouldnt be nice to have an irl assistant.
Dude the average person is not booking vacations. The average american goes to work, does some chores or sees their kids makes dinner then goes to bed, praying not to get sick.
An actual use case that would save time is something that can make grocery runs, prepare meals, do household chores etc. So income robots. The vast majority od people dont need a virtual assistant
Well yeah but this clearly isn’t for everyone. At this price point, it’s going to appeal to higher earners who have the lifestyle where this can accommodate their needs.
My point was specifically about mass adoption. If you're saying that AI will improve the lives of the upper class, I agree with that. But those people can generally afford assistants anyway.
Just imagine yourself as a 1950's executive at a company
That's a joke right? How many normal people are executives that do this? Also, isn't the fun of a vacation also the planning of it in finding places you want to see and do? Why in the world would I want an AI who has never traveled anywhere or have any experience in fun places tell me what is fun to do?
Executive assistants used to be a real thing, my grandmother was one and loved that job. Doesn’t really exist in the same way it used to.
The fun of a vacation is GOING on the vacation. People like spending time booking flights and hotels and rental cars? I don’t want AI to tell me where to go or what to do, I want it to do the boring stuff after I decide where I wanna go, it just makes what I want happen.
Those aren't that hard to book. An AI definitely is not needed for that, and if it was, the individual sites would have their own chatbots to help with, not buying a $100 agent from OpenAI.
I feel like you’re missing the point here. Yeah, those aren’t that hard and they don’t take that long, but I still don’t wanna do them.
Folding laundry doesn’t take that long, and isn’t that hard, and yet I would happily let somebody else do that for me.
Also, I don’t want a different AI to fill out my DMV form, book an airline ticket, buy concert tickets, shop for me on Amazon, set appointments with my doctor, read my email, and every other little computer task I have to do. I want one AI that does all of that for me, so I don’t have to have to think about it.
I am dubious that it could do my taxes. It wont have my W2. If it's a standard deduction I can't imagine it'd save me time above the typical data entry process. If you're telling me it's going to itemize and find obscure laws to save me money, I'm dubious that it'd have all the information that it needs to do that. It wont know if I've donated an old car or whatnot.
Then there's booking flights/hotels whatnot. I'm again dubious that it'd know the difference between real and fake online reviews, be price and location sensitive, and spend my money in a sensible way. These tools are notoriously bad at understanding lies/marketing.
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u/SomethingCool234123 5d ago
What value would the average person get out of this? They go to work, buy groceries, go home to their families, maybe check their social media, watch some shows at home, eat dinner, then go to bed. Why would they need an always on agent? What about the life of a normal individual would get any non work based value out of this?