Zapier Co-Founder on Using AI Agents to 10X Your Productivity | Mike Knoop (Zapier)

My guest today is Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier. Mike
co-founded Zapier and started the ARC Prize to accelerate
progress towards open AGI. We had a great chat about how Zapier
works, how PMs and marketers can use AI to automate even more
work, and why LLMs won’t reach AGI by themselves. Timestamps:
(00:00) There are two types of AI automation (01:57) How Zapier
automation works (05:14) I quit being Zapier's CPO to do AI
research (07:54) I gave employees a week off to just use
AI(11:57) How PMs can use AI agents to save time (14:03) We saved
$100K by using AI agents in marketing (21:28) Robotic process
automation might be better than APIs (26:30) Most definitions of
AGI are wrong (30:45) Why LLMs won't get us to AGI and what might
work instead Get the takeaways:
https://creatoreconomy.so/p/zapier-co-founder-ai-agents-10x-productivity-mike-knoop
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