Robyn Anderson reviews four AI agents for small business owners: Muse rewards you with tokens for referrals, GrokBot lets agents talk to each other, Instinct sends reminders about cash and client follow-ups, and ChatGPT's Dot makes phone calls and logs into platforms. She uses Dot as her main work assistant.
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Muse, Grokbot, Instinct, and Dots. These are personal AI agents that are kind of taking over the news right now. They are aimed at small business owners who are non-technical, so I want to just give you my feedback on each one. Number 1, Muse. So this is owned by Meta, and you may be wondering why you can use it for free. People are using it all day, every day, and when you invite someone, you get 1 billion tokens. Well, that's because Meta is trying to be your personal AI shopper with Muse, and so they're going to be taking a percentage of sales in the future and I've heard that they may be competing with Amazon. Number 2, GrokBot. GrokBot is built by xAI, and I've heard some great feedback. You can create multiple AI agents, and they can all talk to each other, and they're super easy to set up. Great for non-technical small business owners. Third one here is Instinct. You may not have heard of it because you have to get a personal invite to try it. However, it is my favorite personal AI right now. It actually talks to you via your text interface, and it has saved my butt like 5 times this week reminding me to send my kids with $20 to school for whatever, reminding me to follow up with clients, and sending me a text message when something urgent is happening in my inbox. And finally, ChatGPT's Dot. So Dot is really amazing. You can customize it, you can name it, you can have phone calls with it. I find myself having coworking sessions with mine all the time. And the best part is that it has access to its own computer, so it can literally log into different platforms and sites that you log into, and then you give your Dot access to it. So far, this has been the one that I'm using the most for work because it's integrated into my Obsidian and my ChatGPT, and really it's helping me manage all the conversations I'm having in my ChatGPT interface. It also integrates into Spaces, which is their new kind of like Google Drive mixed with Notion, and you can do some amazing stuff in that. Well, follow me for more tips on all of these new AI developments, and let me know in the comments if you're using any of these and which one's your favorite.
