How much should you tell your AI agent?
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How much should you tell your AI agent?

B1IntermediateOctober 6, 202641 min
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The next big thing in AI, at least if you ask the tech companies, is assistant agents. David and The Verge's Allison Johnson have both been testing products like Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and startups like Instinct, in an effort to find out how much you can really get done by messaging with an AI tool – and whether the productivity is worth the tradeoffs. Further reading: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery complete $110 billion media megamerger Amazon reportedly pays $120 million to stream the Emmys for free New leaks reveal more details about the Fitbit Ed...

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Hello and welcome to the VergeCast flagship podcast of secure password vaults in your text messaging. I'm your friend David Pierce and today on the show we're going to talk about agentic AI messaging systems. So there's been all these new products right? Metas, Muse, OpenAI's Dots, Instinct, a bunch of other startups coming out all with the same idea that basically what you want to do is message with an AI assistant that will then use agents to go and accomplish stuff on your behalf.

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And I say stuff in the loosest possible way because they all have big different ideas about what you might want your agents to do. Alison Johnson on our team has been testing all of these.

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They're all very similar in certain ways and all very different in interesting and important ways as we try to figure out how people actually want to use AI. So she's gonna come on the show

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