I’m skeptical that “an assistant that knows you” is enough to sustain a personal-agent business. Knowing my preferences might improve the experience. It doesn’t tell me why I’d keep paying after the novelty wears off. Over the next six months, I expect the harder question to be which recurring consumer task is valuable enough to cover the subscription, the agent’s operating costs, and the cost of acquiring that customer. Travel planning can be useful, but most people don’t book a trip every week. Shopping assistance might earn commissions, but then I need to trust that recommendations serve me. Calendar management sounds convenient until I have to supervise every change. My guess is that paid demand will cluster around specific needs: intensive learning, accessibility, household administration, or work that directly affects personal income. Memory could still become a real advantage. Rebuilding months of useful context elsewhere would be annoying. But that context has to produce results worth paying for. What would a personal agent need to do repeatedly for you to keep the subscription once the introductory discount ends? submitted by /u/yi111
Originally posted by u/yi111 on r/ArtificialInteligence