Every Smartphone User Will Daily Consult Personal AI Agents
Reid Hoffman · Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jun 10, 2024 · at 39:53
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and Inflection AI, predicts consumer adoption of personal AI assistants in response to Harry Stebbings asking for predictions that sound absurd today but will be standard in a decade.
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“Well, one of them is I think even shorter than that, Every single person who has a smartphone will have one or more personal agents, personal AI agents, that's why we, in inflection we call it Pi, that is their agent, but it is like there for them, and on a whole range of things, like, not just, where should I go for a restaurant meal, you know, tonight, or hey, I had this odd conversation with this person at work, can you help me talk about it? To, hey, I'm writing an essay on this. I'm writing a memo on this. Can you critique this and get me more information? But just a whole range of things. Like, for example, I have this skin legion, you know, should I be concerned about this? You know, this whole range of things. So I think we, every person today will have an agent that they essentially interact with and consult with Like, every day, multiple times.”
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