Short answer: Jordan Metzner says the step change is that Grok Bot and Muse have their own browser and computer and use your accesses. Connected to email and LinkedIn, Grok Bot can reply to emails and make daily LinkedIn connections for him.
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From Episode 57: A Bot Emailed a Sold Out Hotel for Me. 15 Minutes Later I Got 33% Off., starting at 1:34.
Jordan Metzner [1:33]: So, I think, everything's about agents and bots and there's too many names for different things. Obviously, we've got OpenClaw and kind of the first iteration of bots and in that iteration. But I think we've seen a step forward and a step function change kind of with Muse bots and Dot from OpenAI and then my favorite Grok Bot. I think if you go back to like chatbot, kind of the first iteration was like using ChatGPT to code, kind of pasting stuff in and getting it back. And then, eventually we got like ChatGPT and other models like in the sidebar, and so they would go in and edit your code, and then, you we kinda went to, like, an abstract model, like the Claude Code model, and you're just talking to it, and it's editing your code. All of that is fine. And, then we kinda got, like, I don't know if you've used lately, we've gotten into, like, the browser use cases where, Claude Code and Codex and can now use your browser and use different tools in your browser and all that's cool. But I think the big step function is with Grok Bot and Muse and some of these other ones is its ability that it has its own browser and its own computer. And it's using your accesses to then construct behaviors, workflows, and all these other types of things that probably weren't previously able to be done. So, a simple one might be just, I'm looking to buy a house in a certain area.
Jordan Metzner [2:58]: I want you to search every day on the market. And, like, maybe you would do that with Zillow, but, maybe there's, five or 10 different websites in which there's like properties available, and so you might wanna do it that way. But what's really cool is you can connect it to a bunch of different tools. So I think you know as you know about this, but, we have our email connected to Grok Bot, which gives its ability to send emails or even prepare emails or reply to emails on our behalf as well as connected to my LinkedIn. And so what's really cool is I can give it a command of say something like, I wanna reach out to these certain types of people, and I wanna do this many people each day, and it'll go target those audiences and make those LinkedIn connections? And previously, we used to have some automation software that used to do it. And if you think about even how that software worked, it was using your browser. Right? It would work, but it was always using, like, your browser to run these workflows. The difference here is it's using, Grok Bot's computer per se.
Jordan Metzner [3:51]: What I think is so interesting is as the beginning of a new agentic type of workflow where workers can say, like, your job is to, for sales, for example, go reach out to this type of audience, go get their information, go reach out to them, go customize the message, go test it, and see what converts, try to make as many meetings as you can, respond to everyone in real time. You'll start to see this happen, like, over and over again. And it's so obvious that it's gonna come to the enterprise very quickly, kind of like the real actual copilots that are helping people do their jobs and do their work. And the more kind of tools that get connected to these bots or agents, the more effective they'll be. And so essentially things that were, multiple step processes of workflows like, respond back to that person, go check into the system, go have it to this, go have it to this. You don't need to tie those together. You can simply, like, kinda resolve for what you're looking for and just... And let the bot or the agent do its work. And so, yeah, it's been really fun to use, really fun to play with. Love to hear, what you've liked about it.
Sam Nadler [4:55]: Yeah. I mean, I would love for you to walk our audience through a practical example. Personally, I'm about three weeks in into using Grok Bot, and, there's... I feel like I'm just scratching the surface, but there's all... Already tons of, like, little daily actions that I've been able to offload onto my Grok Bot. There's also some personal applications. I think it's the, really obvious one is, looking and booking travel. But, yeah, I would love for you to... I know you prefer Grok Bot, so maybe let's stay there. Why don't you walk us through, like, a kind of a high level overview of one practical use case to kind of, like, put a little meat around what we're talking about?
