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AI agents are all the buzz on tech twitter, so we’re setting the record straight.

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Jared @ Supernova
January 10, 2025

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GM. AI agents are all the buzz on tech twitter, so we’re setting the record straight. This will probably require a few editions. For now, I’m just focusing on the general outlook. Next week, I’ll dive into some of the use cases more deeply.

Without Further Ado. ☕ *knuckle cracks* ☕ Let’s get into it.

Here are some agents that stand out:

Are they more than just a reply bot? Can they rival real content creators?

AI agents feel like what friend.com thought they were going to be. But instead of a friendship bracelet that replaces your high school buddy, it’s a faceless bot that replaces your smartest follow.

As we see time and time again, what begins as a quirky gimmick can quickly transform into a life-changing technology.

Aixbt is probably the best agent I’ve seen – in terms of its ability to provide genuine value and engage in conversation like a real person.

It will be interesting to see whether these bots can do more than just help people build personal brands or curate news and data. But if they are capable of doing more…

Can you envision a world where non-humans drive 80% of the Internet conversation? Is that a world we even want? What are the potential advantages? What’s the worst-case scenario?

Unfortunately, while these may be worthy questions, we likely won’t get answers before it becomes our inevitable reality.

But it goes even further than conversational bots that take on a life of their own. What if your agent had a face, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, a voice that could look at you and speak?

Our friends at Aww Tokyo have been working on their virtual human Imma for years. Lil Miquela was created back in 2016 by Trevor McFedries & Sara Decou. Meta is launching AI profiles.

Supernova has been exploring the virtual human space for at least three or four years now, and while we are by no means at the epicenter of Silicon Valley or true native technologists, I can tell you that building a dynamic virtual human that mirrors the behavior of a real person is much harder than it looks.

It requires considerable time, creativity, and resources beyond being a 10x engineer.

You need excellent training data and creative direction to bring it over the edge, and everything has to communicate as seamlessly as a human mind, body, and soul. That’s doing God’s work in the most literal sense of the phrase.

Soo if we’re trying to distinguish between virtual and fake, humans and influencers, I think it depends on how we use them.

My belief is that influencer marketing will still have a place for people who develop real independent thoughts apart from brands, and people will desire human-only content – in the same way a Broadway play can sell out in the era of Netflix.

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