Outsourcing Tasks in the Automation Age

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The use of medical scribes to take notes during patient visits is an example of outsourcing tasks that were traditionally performed by doctors. This outsourcing trend is not new and has evolved from in-office tech solutions to services based in countries like India or the Philippines. Businesses such as A bridge, nabla, and freed are growing quickly in the medical scribe industry. The speaker emphasizes the importance of viewing automation as taking tasks rather than entire jobs and highlights the efficiency gained from delegating tasks to machines proficient in specific functions.

Episode 612: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Sarah Guo ( https://x.com/saranormous ) about the Ai ideas she thinks could be $1B swings.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(4:00) IDEA: AI companions

(16:00) IDEA: AI interior design / professional headshots

(22:30) IDEA: A richer version of The Sims

(25:00) The speedy way to do this if you're non-technical

(27:00) IDEA: Your Personal Seller

(32:00) IDEA: Generative Voice API for service providers, SMBs, restaurants

(38:00) IDEA: Next Gen Auto-Fill

(40:00) Software 3.0--what's coming

(42:00) Boring verticals fertile for AI: Legal and medical

(44:00) Ask: What's already being outsourced?

(47:00) Ripe for disruption: energy storage, chips,

(49:00) “Ai's $600B Question”

(52:00) Sarah Reacts: Doomsday scenarios in Ai

(56:30) If you're 22, hungry and optimistic, go west

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Links:

• Sarah Guo - https://sarahguo.com/

• Conviction - https://www.conviction.com/

• No Priors Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@NoPriorsPodcast

• Replika - https://replika.com/

• Character.ai - https://character.ai/

• HeyGen - https://www.heygen.com/

• Icon - https://icon.me/

• Arcads - https://www.arcads.ai/

• Interior AI - https://interiorai.com/

• Aragon - https://aragon.ai/

• Chatbot App - https://chatbotapp.ai/

• Cartesia - https://cartesia.ai/

• Somewhere - https://www.somewhere.com/

• AI’s $600B Question - https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/

• Eureka Labs - https://eurekalabs.ai/

• Conviction Embed - https://embed.conviction.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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