Short answer: Sam Nadler says Atlas asked him questions and recommended a family passport holder on Amazon. Jordan Metzner says memory is the key unlock, so an agent could already know your Airbnb preferences and return the top three houses.
Watch this answer from Episode 18 (starts at 23:44) · Episode 18 notes and transcript
From Episode 18: TrickOrTreat!, starting at 23:44.
Sam Nadler [23:43]: Yeah. I used it in the twenty minutes. I used it before the filming of this podcast was to kind of recommend a purchase. I'm looking for a family passport holder to store kind of passports and travel documents for a group of four. Pulled up Amazon, chatted, kind of put my parameters into the chat. It asked a couple questions. I answered those questions, and it surfaced two or three options, and gave me kind of its recommendation. I didn't move forward with the purchase. I've just had other things to do, but I thought that feature was interesting. I basically didn't have to search. It gave me, like, do you want affordable? Do you want high end? Do you want, functionality? You know? Yeah. Okay. Based on what you're looking for, we think this one's the best, but here are other two options. And it just kinda makes it easy.
Jordan Metzner [24:40]: Yeah. This is I you know, one of the things the browser asks you is to enable memory. And I think this is kind of like the key unlock feature here, is how well AI can really learn about us. And I think this will hit when you think about websites where you spend expense extensive amount of time finding what you want. And an example of that might be, Sam, like, an Airbnb search. Let's say you're taking your family on vacation for, a few days and you're you're going to, maybe my favorite place, Destin, Florida. And, you're looking for a spot for your family, and maybe you've been to Destin, Florida, like, multiple times in a row. So you kinda know what you like. Right? You kinda know you want a house. You kinda know, you want a pool. You want a view. You wanna be near the beach. Maybe you want something for the kids, like a playroom or something. Right? And so every time you go to Airbnb, you kinda start with the same search, like, I'm looking for Allison and Destin, like, then you put all these filters on, and gotta have WiFi, and the hot tub, and whatnot, you know. I think, this is where it starts to get interesting, where you can start to say to the chat, hey, I'm going to Destin again, get me the best house. And it already knows, like, kind of like your price and like your willingness to pay and all these things and, kind of maybe whittles it down to like the top three choices. But it's already gone through and kind of done all of those searches for you, looked at the images. And so you can start to see how, like, agent can kinda work in the background, save you a ton of time.
Jordan Metzner [26:03]: An ex example here, it's talking about Instacart and, United flights. But, yeah, I think it's a super exciting kind of just the abilities to start to use agents to browse the web for us. And I think, when they start to work really well, I think they'll become superpowers for people.
