I don't have long to chat today, But I thought I should at least drop in and mention this important historical milestone that's going on.
As of this month the very first ai agents are becoming available.
I've already got a few running but it's just the very beginning.
If you don't know what an ai agent is or how it relates to film i'll try to explain very briefly.
The ai is tools you've been working with so far have mainly created a piece of one type of content or another or answered questions for you.
Ai agents are something different, The next step in this logical progression. As the name suggests they do things on your behalf. Right now in this first month of availability this is limited to simple web tasks and unless you go ahead and build your own there are a lot of protective guardrails to keep you from doing things.
I'm completely overloaded with work on a dozen different fronts, But I did try launching the first ai agent task today, A simple task where the agent went out onto the web and searched exhaustively to find a few hundred public domain orchestra performances. While some chat platforms previously had the ability to check one or two websites, None of them would just work in the background for hours scouring hundreds or thousands of websites, And could not interact with them effectively.
Obviously it's only a matter of days until these agents are performing millions of tasks around the web such as trading stocks and doing large scale research projects autonomously.
I ran a couple of very simple tasks to create examples to show here. In this first task I asked it to find 5 interesting projects on indietalk.com, and list them in no particular order.
In another example I asked it to list a few films from one of our members -
These are simple examples but the main difference between what you're seeing before with Chat Bots is that These new agents can proactively interact with sites all over the web in real time and do not rely on out of date knowledge bases from years ago. They can also drill down to find specific information in ways not previously available. In this case I watched the agent use the search bar functionality on indetalk to create a list of scoopicman's recently discussed film projects.
This may not seem like a big deal right now on day one, But there is a huge amount of potential to be unlocked here, With the ability to ask a robot to stay up all night searching the web for X thing and writing a report for you the next morning. You can also automate the automators, "Hey robot once a day at 7 AM I want you to search the entire web and find out if anybody mentioned me or my films". "Hey robot, i'm selling my movie on these three platforms, can you search every night at 9:00 PM and email me a running tally of my sales daily. In the daily email please rank all the sites selling my movies in terms of sales over the past month, And use comments and metrics from each page to generate three bullet points suggestions per page that might help me more effectively market my film on the respective site."
People reading this are probably thinking that this is just the next gen version of Google, But I don't think it will be very long before everyone understands how big of a game changer this is. This technology is dangerous. Honestly they probably shouldn't have created it at all. Now that it's out in the wild, It's another arms race scenario. Even if I don't want to use this, I have to use it, because if I don't use it other people will and then I will be destroyed because they could be 1000 times as efficient as I could be. I would encourage people to be responsible with this technology, Though I know that won't do any good at all. People should probably brace themselves for some upcoming issues as throngs of idiots abuse this thing horribly. An example would be that right now I could build a custom version of one of these that didn't have limitations and just ask it To go through every single thread on this form and post a response. I could tell it to do that every day, Or every hour. I could tell it to make a new user every time an account got banned. I could tell it to detect the reasons it was getting banned and start forming strategies To work around those. I could tell it to create five users and have them get into arguments with each other to boost the dramatic pull of the site.
I'm not going to do any of those things because essentially it would be harmful to the site. I'm just giving you some examples here. Right now people on the street don't have the capabilities that I'm talking about, only engineers like myself that can build custom code. However it's now less than a year until the general public could do exactly the kind of things that I'm talking about.
As of this month the very first ai agents are becoming available.
I've already got a few running but it's just the very beginning.
If you don't know what an ai agent is or how it relates to film i'll try to explain very briefly.
The ai is tools you've been working with so far have mainly created a piece of one type of content or another or answered questions for you.
Ai agents are something different, The next step in this logical progression. As the name suggests they do things on your behalf. Right now in this first month of availability this is limited to simple web tasks and unless you go ahead and build your own there are a lot of protective guardrails to keep you from doing things.
I'm completely overloaded with work on a dozen different fronts, But I did try launching the first ai agent task today, A simple task where the agent went out onto the web and searched exhaustively to find a few hundred public domain orchestra performances. While some chat platforms previously had the ability to check one or two websites, None of them would just work in the background for hours scouring hundreds or thousands of websites, And could not interact with them effectively.
Obviously it's only a matter of days until these agents are performing millions of tasks around the web such as trading stocks and doing large scale research projects autonomously.
I ran a couple of very simple tasks to create examples to show here. In this first task I asked it to find 5 interesting projects on indietalk.com, and list them in no particular order.
In another example I asked it to list a few films from one of our members -
These are simple examples but the main difference between what you're seeing before with Chat Bots is that These new agents can proactively interact with sites all over the web in real time and do not rely on out of date knowledge bases from years ago. They can also drill down to find specific information in ways not previously available. In this case I watched the agent use the search bar functionality on indetalk to create a list of scoopicman's recently discussed film projects.
This may not seem like a big deal right now on day one, But there is a huge amount of potential to be unlocked here, With the ability to ask a robot to stay up all night searching the web for X thing and writing a report for you the next morning. You can also automate the automators, "Hey robot once a day at 7 AM I want you to search the entire web and find out if anybody mentioned me or my films". "Hey robot, i'm selling my movie on these three platforms, can you search every night at 9:00 PM and email me a running tally of my sales daily. In the daily email please rank all the sites selling my movies in terms of sales over the past month, And use comments and metrics from each page to generate three bullet points suggestions per page that might help me more effectively market my film on the respective site."
People reading this are probably thinking that this is just the next gen version of Google, But I don't think it will be very long before everyone understands how big of a game changer this is. This technology is dangerous. Honestly they probably shouldn't have created it at all. Now that it's out in the wild, It's another arms race scenario. Even if I don't want to use this, I have to use it, because if I don't use it other people will and then I will be destroyed because they could be 1000 times as efficient as I could be. I would encourage people to be responsible with this technology, Though I know that won't do any good at all. People should probably brace themselves for some upcoming issues as throngs of idiots abuse this thing horribly. An example would be that right now I could build a custom version of one of these that didn't have limitations and just ask it To go through every single thread on this form and post a response. I could tell it to do that every day, Or every hour. I could tell it to make a new user every time an account got banned. I could tell it to detect the reasons it was getting banned and start forming strategies To work around those. I could tell it to create five users and have them get into arguments with each other to boost the dramatic pull of the site.
I'm not going to do any of those things because essentially it would be harmful to the site. I'm just giving you some examples here. Right now people on the street don't have the capabilities that I'm talking about, only engineers like myself that can build custom code. However it's now less than a year until the general public could do exactly the kind of things that I'm talking about.