Albrecht: Narrow AI agents for email triage will work by late 2024
Josh Albrecht · No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht · Nov 16, 2023 · at 22:22
Josh Albrecht is the co-founder and CTO of Imbue. He discusses the near-term timeline for AI agents becoming practical for everyday productivity tasks.
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“Yeah, I think a year from now we're going to start to see some of these use cases actually work that today you could you can write these like we have the capabilities you can make some kind of agent to triage your email or to do scheduling or many of these workflows like we really should like why don't we have that today that definitely can be done right like there's nothing stopping us”
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