The Future of AI Assistants: Automation, Agency Bots, and Finance Implications

During their recent episode, Taylor, Carlisle, and Jason Buck discussed The Future of AI Assistants: Automation, Agency Bots, and Finance Implications. Here’s an excerpt from the episode:

Tobias: I don’t think that the AI is quite there yet, but I think it’s getting pretty close. I don’t think anybody’s really figured out the killer app. I don’t think that ChatGPT is really it yet. Have you seen anything that’s– I need more automation. To have a true assistant or anything like that, you need to be able to tell us do stuff and have it go away and do it. None of them interact as far as I can see.

Jake: [crosstalk] hasn’t figured out how to buy stocks that go down?

[laughter]

Tobias: I do that all by myself.

Jason: Yeah, exactly. We can automate the podcasting and the stocks that go down. Yeah, they can easily done yourself. Well, I got a good one for you then. Agency AI or it’s Agency.AI is done by Dharmesh from HubSpot. And the idea there was brilliant. He’s like, “Why wouldn’t we have a job board for AI bots?” And so, what you can do now is, previously, when you used to link all of your different flows and systems through like a Zapier and you’re trying to automate that whole process, well now you can use very specific Agency bots or AI bots to do very specific problems and then you can tie them all together in that automation process.

So, we’ve been playing around with all of this stuff. But to your point, it’s still not quite there, but it’s getting better and better, and so it’s just a matter of time. But now, yeah, you can use ones that are hyper focused, and then you can link them up and brick a large them all together to have your automated system. Yes, there’s not a true killer one stop shop for all that stuff, but it’s coming and I think we’ve been messing around with a lot of it. It’s just been very interesting, but it’ll work itself out over time.

The only other thing from a finance perspective that I also want to maybe hedge with is you have to be very careful about what’s actually in the code for a lot of these bots and everything. There’s going to be some backdoors, bugs and some nefarious things in the code. So, you got to be very careful running a financial firm on what you’re using in your back end, that’s more appropriate than people realize to really dive into.

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