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

Where to find Mike:X: https://x.com/mikeknoopWebsite: https://mikeknoop.com/

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