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Kairos: AI interns for everyone

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Re: Kairos: AI interns for everyone

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Post by bamitsmanas »

petterroea wrote: post #18

I can't remember last time I filled in a form and thought "man, I wish I didn't have to do this". And I live in Japan! Most forms take 2-5 min and have the useful side effect of updating my mental state with important information about whatever I'm filling in a form for. If you want to replace that, the lowest barrier before it becomes useful is that someone else takes complete ownership of the task related to the fo…

We were referring to form filling in the aspect of boring data entry tasks like updating a crm; would something like kairos be helpful to you then?

Re: Kairos: AI interns for everyone

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Post by bamitsmanas »

abcde666777 wrote: post #3

There's a reason they call them 'interns' - because the results are going to be subpar.

this is actually something we thought about. we didn't want to call them ai employees because that would be overpromising; not sure if intern is the best way to call it either though :/

need to think more...

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Post by bamitsmanas »

timfsu wrote: post #7

I get the appeal, but it seems too early for one AI tool to be able to do "everything". I'm guessing there's some company out there trying to automate each of these tasks and dealing with the attendant complexity that comes with it - it's not clear to me that a single "do everything" AI would be able to do this pre-AGI

this makes sense and is generally what we're trying to gauge; we might considering niche'ing down into something

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Post by bamitsmanas »

bwestergard wrote: post #17

I am a birder who checks eBird for sightings of rare birds in my area. Let's see if Kairos can do some googling and summarization for me by text message. All it needs to do is find its way to this page: https://ebird.org/alert/summary?sid=SN36086 This is the first google result for "rare birds pg county" and many similar queries. I prompted Kairos by text message: "What rare birds have been reported on eBird in Maryl…

thank you for sharing this. we're still improving the way we architect this. any suggestions for improvement off the top of how it went about executing your task?

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Post by jacobr1 »

advisedwang wrote: post #10

Having an intern is supposed to be about talent development. It's a way to simultaneously recruit, train, vet and build loyalty with future employees. Using interns just as a source of cheap labour is exploiting interns! Calling this "AI interns" is like saying "this is sub-par and neglects important aspects of your business".

> this is sub-par and neglects important aspects of your business

But that is exactly the right way to think about it. If you have an army of sub-par workers that aren't going to think deeply about their value to your business, but are really cheap (relative to human labor) - how do you make effective use of them? Thinking about AI agents as being high-competence and able to learn your intent is the wrong model at this point. Though they can be high-competence in very specific narrow niches.

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Post by jacobr1 »

petterroea wrote: post #18

I can't remember last time I filled in a form and thought "man, I wish I didn't have to do this". And I live in Japan! Most forms take 2-5 min and have the useful side effect of updating my mental state with important information about whatever I'm filling in a form for. If you want to replace that, the lowest barrier before it becomes useful is that someone else takes complete ownership of the task related to the fo…

Business crave both data for analysis and checkboxes getting checked for compliance sake. If those don't align to the value of the work - then you have the classic of employees hating the "TPS Reports" they are forced to make. As an example, sales people are notorious for basically never updating CRMs and also they have incentives to skew the specifics anyway.

Re: Kairos: AI interns for everyone

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Post by yencabulator »

bamitsmanas wrote: post #20
advisedwang wrote: post #10

Having an intern is supposed to be about talent development. It's a way to simultaneously recruit, train, vet and build loyalty with future employees. Using interns just as a source of cheap labour is exploiting interns! Calling this "AI interns" is like saying "this is sub-par and neglects important aspects of your business".

That's fair, is there another framing that might better communicate that people can delegate their tasks to kairos and it would go out and do it for them?

If they possess few of the attributes the word "intern" implies maybe they're just workers?
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