Zapier Co-Founder on AI Agents and the Path to AGI | Mike Knoop (Zapier)

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​ ​ 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.

(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

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