Virtual Assistant
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Noam Brown: Aligned AI will outperform human virtual assistants on effort
“And so if you have an AI model that's, like, actually really aligned, To you and your preferences, then that could end up doing a way better job than a human could. Well, not, not that it's doing a better job than a human could, but like it's doing a better jo…”
Ladjevardian: AI agents can already handle basic inbox management and travel scheduling
“At a bare bone assistant that can manage your inbox and even like schedule traveling for you, and it doesn't require that much personalization to your life and your nuances.
Yes, it's there. People are already doing it.”
Ladjevardian: AI agents will achieve deep personalization and proactivity within a year
“Yes.
And I think personalization and proactivity are the two things that I think over the next year are really going to be the things that take AI from a nice to have to, wow, this is ingrained in my life.
I don't have to think about it.
It's reaching out to m…”
Bosworth: Pre-LLM virtual assistants had the worst scaling laws in software
“When we got into building our own assistant, I could not believe the, how poorly they scale you because you have to build it for every language, for every device, and for every use case. Oh my gosh, that's not software. That's the worst scaling laws of all tim…”
Norena Hertz: AI companions risk conditioning humans to expect submissive friendships
“Moreover, the danger is that we'll get very used to having relationships with essentially servants who do what we want and laugh at our jokes and are much more submissive than any human relationship would be. So whilst I do see it as a cure for loneliness at a…”
Stepanov: Performance bonuses should only be used for sales roles
“Only for sales positions where actually bonus is tied to the specific performance of the sales. It's hard to tie bonus to any like admin work, something that it's not sales specific because you can throw money at a problem, but it's not going to fix the proble…”
Stepanov: Virtual assistant failure is the founder's fault, not the assistant's
“Your virtual assistant is a reflection of your business, of how you are running the company. If you think your virtual assistant sucks after working with you for a certain number of years, you need to look at your business model. You need to look at your organ…”
Hertz: Optimistic that social robots and virtual assistants can alleviate loneliness
“I'm actually quite optimistic about the role that social robots and virtual assistants will be able to play in alleviating loneliness”
Kettle & Fire employs one virtual assistant for every two full-time staff
“Like, we have basically one virtual assistant hire for every two people that we have that are on the team, and we give them, like, a training that's like, here's how to use virtual assistants, get all of the repetitive stuff off your plate”
Arnott: Best backlink strategy is training VAs via Loom videos
“I honestly think the best thing to do is follow somebody like Neil Patel. He's got a ton of articles on how to build backlinks and then hire a VA and you know, make a loom video. If you're the expert on that, make a loom video and show them how to do it and th…”