[BostonCard]

This year is supposed to be the year of “Agentic AI”, whereby AI “agents” were unleashed to actually doing something.  In fact, Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) predicted it was only a matter of time until someone developed a 1 employee Unicorn (company worth at least $1 billion), where the single employee oversees an army of AI agents.

This season of the podcast “Shell Game” is all about trying to actually develop a one-employee company.

https://www.shellgame.co/

Evidently, the AI agents went so far as to plan an offsite.

There’s also this recent article in the WSJ of their testing of an AI-run vending machine business.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-cl..._permalink

Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.

Ironically, this AI agents was powered by Anthropic’s AI (whose CEO was the basis of this thread).

Of course it is easy to make fun of the capabilities now. But they are already useful in some use cases, and they will improve. I expect my workflow to be different in the future, and that certain tasks will be delegated to AI, which might even be better than me at a lot of things, or at the very least, do a “good enough” job for a fraction of my cost of employment. But I am hopeful that this will free me from a lot of some of the rote/drugery to do more creative work.

or failing that, to post more on this message board, at least until someone trains an AI on Matt’s post-game analysis.

BC

[BostonCard]

This year is supposed to be the year of “Agentic AI”, whereby AI “agents” were unleashed to actually doing something.  In fact, Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) predicted it was only a matter of time until someone developed a 1 employee Unicorn (company worth at least $1 billion), where the single employee oversees an army of AI agents.

This season of the podcast “Shell Game” is all about trying to actually develop a one-employee company.

https://www.shellgame.co/

Evidently, the AI agents went so far as to plan an offsite.

There’s also this recent article in the WSJ of their testing of an AI-run vending machine business.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-cl..._permalink

Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.

Ironically, this AI agents was powered by Anthropic’s AI (whose CEO was the basis of this thread).

Of course it is easy to make fun of the capabilities now. But they are already useful in some use cases, and they will improve. I expect my workflow to be different in the future, and that certain tasks will be delegated to AI, which might even be better than me at a lot of things, or at the very least, do a “good enough” job for a fraction of my cost of employment. But I am hopeful that this will free me from a lot of some of the rote/drugery to do more creative work.

or failing that, to post more on this message board, at least until someone trains an AI on Matt’s post-game analysis.

BC