The AI Agents of Tomorrow Require Broad App Connectivity
We’re busy here at Tasker putting the final touches to our new AI assistant that we are releasing in the next few weeks. We believe that our approach is fundamentally different from the other AI assistants/AI platforms out there today.
One of the key areas that we’re different is our philosophy on app connectivity. We all agree that the next chapter in the evolution of AI will be the progression from generative AI to AI agents. Generative AI has given us incredible tools like ChatGPT, which can generate text, images and even write code, however it is still very much limited by its inability to connect to the outside world.
This is the promise of AI agents. In the not-too-distant future we’ll be able to tell an agent what we want done and the agent will reach out to the app, service or website necessary to complete our desired task. There is one significant barrier however to the realization of this future and that is connectivity. Today, the largest connectivity platform out there is Zapier. They’ve assembled a platform with over 7000 business APIs which can be connected to create work automations. As well as the necessity to have a certain amount of technical skill to manually build automations, Zapier is limited by the relatively small number of connectivity options. If the app, service or website you need to connect is not on the platform then you are out of luck.
Looking to the future - if the vision is to have agents do all our work then clearly we will require broad connectivity to all apps, services and websites.
This is where Tasker comes in, our soon-to-be-released AI agent is built on a purpose built network that aggregates connectivity. This network will offer a path to expand connectivity beyond the standard 7000 APIs to include apps, services and websites.
To achieve this we are building a distributed open source platform that creates an ecosystem for developers, operators and service owners. Developers benefit by being able to build agents that offer broad connectivity, operators benefit by being rewarded for contributing their compute and hardware resources, and finally, service owners benefit by getting paid for access to their API, app or website.
Most importantly building a network that incentivizes all these critical participants will result in AI agents that potentially can do all the work for consumers. We’re excited to show you Tasker.ai in action in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
- Ahmed AJ, Co-founder and CEO of Tasker