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Enough Talk, ChatGPT--My New Chatbot Friend Can Get Things Done

WIRED

I recently needed to contact the CEO of a startup called Lindy, a company developing personal assistants powered by artificial intelligence. Instead of looking for it myself, I turned to an AI helper of my own, an open source program called Auto-GPT, typing in "Find me the email address of the CEO of Lindy AI." Like a delightfully enthusiastic intern, Auto-GPT began furiously Googling and browsing the web for answers, providing a running commentary designed to explain its actions as it went. "A web search is a good starting point to gather information about the CEO and their email address," it told me. When given a task like finding a startup CEO's email address, the open source Auto-GPT suggests a plan for approval and can attempt to put it into action. "I found several sources mentioning Flo Crivello as the CEO of Lindy.ai, but I haven't found their email address yet," Auto-GPT reported.


Sumplete: The AI-Powered Chatbot That Helps You Get Things Done - AI Summary

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Sumplete is a chatbot that can help you with your homework. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to understand what you're asking for help with, and then gives you step-by-step instructions on how to solve the problem.


SevaX App - Giving and Receiving for Communities • Give What You Love and Get What You Need to Get Things Done!

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Create Your Own Seva Community. Get Help. Discover Local Volunteer Opportunities. Get Rewarded With Seva Credits. The SevaX App is transforming how we help one another and give back to society. We provide a user-friendly, secure decentralized platform that uses AI to match the critical needs of communities with the offerings of services and resources. It’s a 360° platform with opportunities and inspiration for all to get involved in their communities, and a way to normalize giving and receiving help. This SevaX App is exactly what all communities need to build back better during and after the pandemic.


The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done

The New Yorker

In the early two-thousands, Merlin Mann, a Web designer and avowed Macintosh enthusiast, was working as a freelance project manager for software companies. He had held similar roles for years, so he knew the ins and outs of the job; he was surprised, therefore, to find that he was overwhelmed--not by the intellectual aspects of his work but by the many small administrative tasks, such as scheduling conference calls, that bubbled up from a turbulent stream of e-mail messages. "I was in this batting cage, deluged with information," he told me recently. Why was I having such a hard time?" In the nineteen-nineties, the spread of e-mail had transformed knowledge work. With nearly all friction removed from professional communication, anyone could bother anyone else at any time. Many e-mails brought obligations: to answer a question, look into a lead, arrange a meeting, or provide feedback. Work lives that had once been sequential--two or three blocks of work, broken up by meetings and phone ...


Is David Allen's new "Getting Things Done" app artificially intelligent? It better be

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You know what you never see in science fiction movies? Why should Tony Stark mess around with stuff like Clear, Asana, or Getting Things Done when he can just bark vaguely worded orders at Jarvis, his artificially intelligent digital assistant? Obviously that makes for better visuals in the Iron Man franchise–but David Allen, creator and evangelist of GTD, is apparently working on a "meta-app" that sounds pretty darn Jarvis-like. According to Fast Company, "What Allen has sought, for nearly three decades now, is a digital tool that actually abstracts list-making out of Getting Things Done, and offers instead more time to think about acting out the items on those lists." In Allen's own words, he laments the fact that "with (today's) GTD'apps,' you still have to think about what you want to accomplish… What I'm seeking is, could somebody, some system, please embody my intelligence about how I want to have data structured, and how I want it to come out?" Allen is collaborating with Intentional Software on the still-secret app, and most of the interview consists of Allen's hand-wavey descriptions of this "obsessively helpful, completely app-agnostic dashboard."