Meta Muse, Grok Bot, OpenAI Dots: Which AI Agent Should You Use?

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For the last three years, AI has been something that we talk to. We would type to it, and then it types something back to us, and then we would take that information and go do something useful with it. But over the last eight weeks, that's changed pretty dramatically, and it comes in the form of this thing called an AI agent. Now, this is a term that has been floated across many different headlines, but no one quite understands what an AI agent is. The best way to think about it is, it's an AI model that has the means to do things for you. It's like giving an AI model arms and the legs, and it's able to kind of run around and do various different tasks for you. Examples could be download or order that book that's been on your list for ages, so that you can read it, filing your tax forms or organizing dinners between friends in your text chat. And there's so much more that these AI agents can do. So you might expect that the most popular AI agents come from the likes of Anthropic and maybe even OpenAI, but that's not actually true. The most popular agents come from the likes of Meta in the form of MetaMuse. You've got Elon Musk with GrokBot. You've got OpenAI that released Dots just last week, and I've been playing around with it, testing it out. And finally, you have this app called Instinct, which weirdly isn't actually an app. It just kind of lives everywhere and anywhere that you touch a digital surface. It was created by this 23-year-old and it's worth billions of dollars. So I've been playing around with these things for the last couple of weeks. Millions of other people have downloaded it and been doing the same. And I've been trying to answer two very important questions. One, what are the differences between these AI agents? Which one should I use? And two, what's the point of even using an AI agent in the first place? Should I materially move from using an LLM or a chatbot? Does it actually add anything to my life? Do I even care about productivity that much? Why should I use an AI agent? So we're going to dig into all of that and more on today's episode of In the Loop brought to you by Qualcomm.

But before I do that, I want to address the elephant in the room. For all of you limitless listeners out there, you might be wondering what on earth is In the Loop and where are you, E.Jazz? Well, let me start with the first question. In the Loop is the rebranded title of this show. It is obviously missing a very important co-host. I miss you, Josh, if you're watching this.

But it now currently involves me and it's kind of like a rebranded refresh of what we're trying to do here. I'm deeply passionate, as you guys already know, about all the stuff that is happening on AI and Frontier Tech, and with this new show, we're gonna bring it to you five times a week, Monday to Friday, so we don't skip any weekdays. You'll be kept up to date with anything and everything that's going along. Bite-sized chunks, 20 to 25 minutes, so that you can listen to it on your commute to work, or if you're cooking at home, or whatever, if you just like or take pleasure in listening to our episodes or our kind of content. And yeah, it's just the rebranding of the show, I guess. And so I don't want that to be a mystery. If you're still wondering what on earth has happened, whether Josh and I have broken up, I can happily say that we have not. Josh has moved on to bigger and better things. And we actually put out a whole episode about this yesterday. So definitely go check it out on our channel. And to answer the second question, I'm in a pretty new swanky studio and it feels pretty awesome. This is a major upgrade from the bedroom that we started recording the show around, like 234 episodes ago or whatever that might be. But I did bring a piece of home with me. This piece of art has been with me for a while, so it's lovely to bring it here. So yeah, new studio, new show, excited to get going. Okay, so firstly, what the hell is even an AI agent? And I created this fun little animation with Claude to describe this to you. So typically, when we're interacting with the web, we have to navigate to individual different websites. Every single app, we need to scroll, navigate through buttons, try and figure out where the product is, or where the service is, or where that button is, click on it. And it's kind of an archaic whole mess.