Asked how agents will differ from one another, Elman says people will have many agents for different parts of life, some purely social. This anecdote shows an agent-to-agent network creating a human connection rather than saving time.
…I mean, we're not just going to all have one agent that does one thing in our lives and all use it. And you guys will only all have to use the same agent. We're going to have so many different products that do so many things for us that I'm excited for why we're all inventing it together.
…a similar number of agents. But maybe talk about what you think are the different axes for differentiation. Like there's a sort of spectrum between really serious and productive to really playful and maybe even sort of adversarial. And I'm sure there are many other ways to think about these things.
Yeah, I mean, I think what's going to be really interesting is we have so many different facets of our life, whether it's how we're managing our finances or planning trips or dealing with our health or just getting through our day or managing our calendar or sometimes just wanting to think something out loud. AI Agents are going to be able to fill different facets of these. And you call different friends for different things. You spend different friends that have different expertise that you call when you need expertise. And I think we're going to get used to having kind of an army of agents that will do this. And some will be very matter of fact. A fact and we'll be like, hey, I need to get this thing done. It'll be your productivity agent. Someone will be plugged into your email and it'll be like, here's the five emails you need to get done right now. And some are going to be sort of these agents you'll kind of want to talk to all day that'll be fun that might even be a little bit gossipy. I've been playing with a few agents that are very kind of playful and gossipy and they're connected to a few of my friends too. And they'll share information back and forth. One…
Right. I think from over 147 different assistants that have come across my plate so far, I've seen them really broken down into four categories. You have the general, you have the work-oriented, you have the multiplayer, and then you have the travel. And the one that I have not really seen come to…
Yeah.
And I think it actually does make sense when you start digging into the numbers. So of all the different group chats that I'm running of AI power users, there's about 3,600 give or take messages so far. And when looking at the pain points of what are the fears of the space, the number one fear that…
