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@jasleen2020

investing all my time and money in food and fintech infrastructure at @NycaPartners @DirtyParrotVC
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Using DoorDash isn’t complicated and also DoorDash is for most people a browsing place to find inspiration and order. Much like shopping. It’s less common you know EXACTLY what you want and you quickly order it. Think outside your bubble of how most people order dinner on DoorDash.

You can’t really browse on a personal agent platform, you can ask for inspiration but that’s typically not how the moment of sparks and joy happen for consumers. Personal agents still have to work hard to capture your taste, they need time to learn and understand what you like and don’t like. The best consumer products give people something that works the moment they use it, that’s how you get addicted to using consumer products.

Otherwise, when shopping for something, people want options and visuals and swiping and pictures. Personal agents completely strip away the browsing experience which is why their use case needs rethinking.
Juozas Kaziukėnas Verified account @juokaz Oct 29
DoorDash says they have only received "several hundred orders in total" from personal agents like Muse.
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Jas Verified account @jasleen2020
Darioooo….. we talked about this.
OpenAI Newsroom Verified account @OpenAINewsroom Oct 13
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.

At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.

We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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Jas Verified account @jasleen2020
This is good. I genuinely believe good use cases for PAIs are savings, debt repayment/settlement, active budgeting, expense tracking, retirement planning, medical bill management, insurance premium negotiation, etc.

You don’t need verticalized apps to do this, but PAIs can and should be marketed to do all these tasks.

I get why you’d want to market access to luxury (flights, shopping, etc) because it’s aspirational. Aspirational always sells well with consumers, but the problem here is agents don’t help you achieve last mile of the aspiration, which is affording the aspiration, they just get you easier access to the aspiration.

Instead the flow can work end to end - agent helps you save for the flight, and then it is constantly matching your savings to best priced flight and once it finds the equilibrium, it books the flight. Or you save for the shoes you really want, and maybe they go on sale, boom agent buys them for you.

These moments of delight capture, engage and retain users, but also encourage good behavior and financial improvement for Americans that desperately need this. Imagine a dopamine hit from savings rather than gambling, that’s a world we can build with agents.
Jim Prosser Verified account @jimprosser Oct 8
If AI labs want personal assistants to take off at scale, they need to stop marketing vacations, reservations, party planning, etc. These are not problems.

Focus on *the* problem facing Americans: the cost of living. Agents can offer a ton of help.

Some ideas: (🧵)
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