Altman: The most impactful AI agents will function like senior co-workers
Sam Altman · Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Nov 4, 2024 · at 11:24
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, explains why the focus of AI agents should shift from basic administrative tasks to multi-week collaborative execution during a 20VC interview with Harry Stebbings.
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“The category I think though is more interesting is not the one that people normally talk about where you have this thing calling restaurants for you, but something that's more like a really smart senior co-worker. Where you can, like, collaborate on a project with, and the agent can go do, like, a two-day task or two-week task really well, and, you know, ping you when it has questions, but come back to you with, like, a great work product.”
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