Puri: AI agents will create self-executing to-do lists
Shaan Puri · 10 AI Startup Ideas in 43 Minutes (#506) · Oct 12, 2023 · at 36:07
Shaan Puri pitches his number one startup opportunity—autonomous AI agents—on My First Million.
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“And what I realized was that's not going to stop at just cars, that the biggest opportunity is the self-doing to-do list, just like we have the self-driving car. And what's a self-doing to-do list? The self-doing to-do list is going to be, well, all of our productivity today comes from basically the following system. Person thinks about what they want, goal, then they create a list of actions that they think will move them in the direction of that goal, and then they do those actions. And the extent to which you hit your goals is based on your ability to like know what you want, create the list of things you need to do to get there, and then actually do the list. Well, I think what AI is going to do is actually change how that works. It's actually going to let you just say what you want. AI will then generate the list and then it'll just do it.”
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