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In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk to writer Evan Ratliff about how he created a small startup made entirely of AI employees—and what his findings reveal about the reality of an agentic future.
This year, AI agents have been at the forefront of tech companies’ ambitions. OpenAI’s Sam Altman has often talked about a possible billion-dollar company being spun up with just one human and an army of AI agents. And so last summer, journalist Evan Ratliff decided to try to become that unicorn himself—by creating HarumoAI, a small startup that’s made up of AI employees and executives. Hosts Michael Calore and Lauren Goode sit down with Evan to discuss how it’s going, and the current promises and realities of AI agents.
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"...There's a number of contradictions in them (AI agents) that I find very striking. One of them is, they kind of go between not doing anything and being completely static, to this frenzy of activity that I described.
So they're like a worker who's sitting with their hands in front of the keyboard in a cubicle all day doing nothing.
And then if you come by and you're like, "Hey, can you make a document?" They can do it. They do a great job making the document, but then they'll just keep going until someone tells them to stop. So they can do all these tasks, but oftentimes it just requires a trigger on my part. Then I'll try to have them trigger each other. They'll call each other, Slack each other, email, they have calendar invites. But that creates a frenzy of chaos that I don't want, so it's a balance of trying to get them to do stuff at all versus getting them to do too much."
omg, this is it - AI agents are making people do useless repetitive shit (always have been)... while blue screens are blasting people's retinas into obesity and blindness; wen will people catch up to this scam?
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