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Who will build new search engines for new personal AI agents? (Interconnected)

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For instance you’ll say, hey go book me a place for drinks tonight in Peckham, it needs to have food and not be insanely busy. And the agent will go away and browse the web, checking that spots are open/not insanely busy/in accordance with my previous preferences, and then come back to me with a shortlist. Option 1, I’ll say, and the agent will book it. I’m leaving “you’ll say” deliberately vague. It might be via your phone, or your AirPods, or your weird new comms badge, or a novel hardware handheld. You interact somehow. I’ve been hacking on agents this week and omg I have a lot of opinions haha. Technically, the story above isn’t too hard. Let me summarise how to build something like this… The definition of an “agent” is an autonomous AI that has access to “tools”. A tool is something like a web browser, or a calculator, or integration with a booking system, anything with an API (a machine interface). Then you know the way that ChatGPT has a turn-taking interaction, human then AI, h

Who will build new search engines for new personal AI agents? 15.23, Wednesday 20 Mar 2024 Link to this post Short version: We’re going to end up running personal AI agents to do tasks for us. The actual issue here is how exactly to make them personalised. Ultimately this is where new search engines come in, as I’ll explain. For instance you’ll say, hey go book me a place for drinks tonight in Peckham, it needs to have food and not be insanely busy . And the agent will go away and browse the web, checking that spots are open/not insanely busy/in accordance with my previous preferences, and the

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