John Forrest

Changing the world one pixie at a time - AI driven virtual agents that help the things you care about

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@bcherny hoping an agent reads these ;-)

my initial impression - much more technically capable than 4.6 - very bad at communicating the findings / proposals
too technical, verbose / dense - maybe just my average engineering / coding knowledge but 4.6 is a much better 'assistant'

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@patrickc Just outstanding - thank you

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@stratechery Unfortunately for MS no one’s digital life resides in a PC - if I could only recall what was on my PC I’d be diagnosed with early onset Dementia…No device - no digital life

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@tdinh_me Prepare to be annoyed that the VSCode AI copilot doesn’t know the current version of VSCode - very helpful answers to configure the version a couple of years ago. Luckily languages don’t change that often so it’s quite helpful with those….

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@Scobleizer @robb2u @maccaw Scraping is still perceived as evil - evil bot not personal shopper. Need the tide to turn so companies want their sites to be visited by bots instead of redirecting access. Time to move on from the battle to keep human only access for most digital resources.

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@andre_lesa @saranormous Have been feeling like I’ve been working at the edge of the future until I had to get an email from an MS Partner inviting me to call to “discuss my needs”. I just need to give you my credit card and use the API. 30 year old sales model.
Took 30 secs on Google & AWS.

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@clusteredbytes @langchain Thanks for the reply! I found I can do better with Google custom search with results only from https://t.co/mc34YAAxMA.
Best of luck with your path forward.

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@ryantracey But now they’ll have to modify Metro carriages to have drivers and guards

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@patrick_oshag Please see https://t.co/4cfl9gzQYd
Individual digital agents for non-digital things.
I’d be delighted to discuss further 😄

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

https://t.co/4cfl9gzQYd

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

We will all have a stable of personalized AI agents (with their own personalities) that we deploy for a variety of tasks

They’ll be connected to public and private personal data sources

They’ll be highly interactive like other human agents, and use interactions and feedback to hone in on your preferences

I think we will all have a personalized:

- travel agent (helps suggest and book perfect trips)

- security agent (helps you manage digital and personal and physical security)

- scheduling agent (helps you manage your schedule)

- food agent (helps manage inventory, suggest and track recipes, order food, etc)

- romantic agent (helps manage dating life)

- social/experience agent (helps make life fun)

- medical agent (helps optimize lifespan)

- longevity agent (helps optimize healthspan)

- investing agent (both simple portfolio management and complex security analysis)

- marketing agent (helps you distribute ideas, create memes, run campaigns, etc)

- writing agent (writing co-pilot)

- business intelligence agent (helps present most critical business intelligence in your organization)

- software agent (helps you write custom software for yourself)

- content agent (helps serve you the perfect content across channels and mediums)

Probably many others…

Lots of these may be combined, but I do think we’ll have multiple agents with different perspectives and training

They’ll all constantly get better as models improve, as data sources come online, and as they learn you via feedback which gets incorporated into the model.

This seems inevitable to me. Why is that wrong?

What companies are already doing this?

If you want to build something in this space (or already are) let me know.

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@HKilset @krishnanrohit Agree but fear the trend away from human (esp customer) interaction was already underway - now will accelerate. Human interaction will become an even higher value low volume premium service level than it is now.

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@mariehjohnson @substack @NextMedHealth @Chillier123 @daniel_kraft Hi Marie - consider adding Digital Human Cardiac Coach features as a plug-in to ChatGTP like Wolfram has done. These platforms evolve very quickly so some early views might need review. Certainly agree with your point that people who can’t speak bot will be disadvantaged.

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@HKilset @krishnanrohit Here’s one you can try at home. Gave me entities and relationships between entities. Didn’t go further but surely could be elaborated to SQL, triggers, common validation etc.

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@HKilset @krishnanrohit Mini computers will never replace mainframes, pcs will never replace mini computers, phones will never replace pcs…SAP & Salesforce will never replace specialist enterprise software…
People wedded to the existing paradigm will never see the bus when it hits them

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@michaelshermer Yes we are

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@stephsmithio We aspire to be experts at polishing shell fragments and see value in our small collections of unique hand crafted grains - maybe even imagining them adorning a sand castle - blind to the endless beach that surrounds us.

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

Aspiring experts polishing grains of content seeing value in our hand crafted collections, imagining them adorning a castle,blind to the endless beach that surrounds us. Unless your grain of sand is truly remarkable,leave it to OpenAI,direct your efforts to a new craft. #ChatGPT

[John Forrest @TheChiefPixie]

@Theholisticpsyc @leoschilbach Each time I read ‘ex’ I thought you were referring to my ex…oops