Advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly through AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet, are poised to lead to significant job losses in roles such as recruiters and executive assistants. Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, suggests that improved reasoning models may render these positions obsolete soon. Currently, while human assistants manage complex workflows, Srinivas predicts that AI could match or exceed their capabilities in follow-ups. Comet aims to streamline user scheduling by running tasks in the background using data from Gmail and calendars.
Srinivas believes that with access to a user's Gmail and calendar, Comet's AI Assistant can not only match a human assistant's capabilities but even exceed them when it comes to follow-ups.
The emergence of more advanced reasoning models, he said, could put recruiter roles especially at risk.
I'm betting on the fact that ... a sufficiently good reasoning model ... could get us over the edge where all these things are suddenly possible and then a recruiter's work worth one week is just one prompt: sourcing and reach outs.
Srinivas acknowledged that while Comet currently struggles with long-horizon tasks, human assistants are still needed to manage complex workflows.
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