John JonasOwner, OnlineJobs.ph · Scale Your Business with Filipino VAs

The future of AI and virtual assistants #ytshorts

15 May 2025 · 2 min

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In this monologue, the speaker outlines a vision for the future of virtual assistants (VAs) and artificial intelligence (AI) as complementary forces rather than outright replacements. He argues that AI will make people faster and more skilled, especially in prompt writing and tool usage, while humans will become better at discerning AI‑generated generic content. Using a concrete example, he describes how a VA named Julia handles his email efficiently, and how pairing Julia with AI could combine speed, knowledge, and accessibility while preserving human judgment. He notes that AI can accelerate tasks across content creation, programming, data entry, and video editing, though it may not yet match human quality. The speaker anticipates that AI‑enhanced productivity could allow teams to take on more work, potentially reducing hiring needs, and improve content quality by generating ideas and outlines. Throughout, he stresses the enduring need for genuine human connection, asserting that AI, while capable of mimicking interaction, cannot fully replicate the emotional experience of human engagement.

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So what do I see as the future of virtual assistants versus AI moving forward? Well, I see people getting better. I see people getting faster. I see people using AIs to do their jobs in a more efficient manner. Do I see it replacing people? Yes, in some situations I do. But in a lot of situations, I see people just getting better at their jobs by using it. People will get better at prompt writing. VAs will get better at using the tools that they're given. On the other side of it, humans will get better at recognizing this is generic garbage. This is spewed from the Internet. This isn't actually correct. But in a lot of cases, maybe it provides a faster solution than what was a previous solution. Now, in my case, that's what I'm doing. Julia answers my emails because she answers them faster than I would have done. And she does it as well as I would do it in almost all cases. Now, an AI would probably answer it faster than her, but it's less correct than her. So I could have an AI respond to all of my emails, but 50% of the time it would be right. And 50% of the time it would be, well, not necessarily wrong, but often it would be wrong, just blatantly wrong. But Julia plus AI is actually a really, really great combination of speed, knowledge, accessibility to information, and it's really creating a great user experience. It maintains the human while adding the speed of the AI. And we're seeing this across the board in content creation, in programming, in data entry, in video editing. It's speeding up video editing. It's not doing it all for you. Or if it is, it's not creating as good of a product. So moving forward, that's what I see. I see all of my vascular using AI to help them do their jobs more efficiently so that we can grow faster. Maybe, maybe we hire less because our people are capable of taking on more work, doing it more efficiently and faster. Maybe our content improves because it's coming up with ideas and writing outlines, and then they're writing better content, more thorough content, because the AI is coming up with ideas that they didn't think about. In all of this, we're still maintaining the human element, the human piece. Where we want connection, we crave connection with humans. We need human connection. And while an AI can mimic that, it's not the same feeling.