Your New Best Friend? 🤖
In this 6 minute read you will learn about how agents will soon know more about you than anyone else.
Chatgpt will know you better than anyone. Does that make it your best friend?
Over the past 20 years, our lives have become increasingly digital. Everyday activities like shopping, banking, and communication have shifted from physical interactions to online platforms and mobile apps. Our books, emails, music, messages, documents, and even medical records are now stored in the cloud. This explosion of digital data has overwhelmed us—missed emails, forgotten calendar events, and unread text messages pile up because we simply aren’t equipped to manage it all. Enter AI agents like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, which promise to help us navigate this chaos. But as these agents integrate deeper into our digital lives, a question arises: if ChatGPT knows you better than anyone, will it become your best friend?
Your Agent
The connections for agents to access our digital lives are being built today!
Gemini can read your Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and other Google Apps, giving it insight into your schedules, communications, and files.
Claude can add your Github repositories to your conversation history.
This is the beginning of agents having access your digital life.
Anthropic’s latest release, Integrations, builds on their Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced in November last year. MCP empowers developers to create connections and actions that AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude can utilize. These connections are packaged as downloadable “packages”, available from platforms like Smithery, and can be integrated into chat assistants. For example, I walked you through how to add one to Claude in 3 minutes in my last blog (Agents for Non-Techies). However, MCP current downsides.
Time-consuming: Adding packages to your assistant takes effort.
API keys required: External service connections need additional setup.
Poor User Experience and Security: Current MCP servers leave much to be desired in terms of user experience and safety.
Try connecting AI agent to services like Salesforce. It’s a messy experience, to say the least as shown below 🤮
The Future: A Frictionless Solution
The good news? These hurdles are getting ironed out. The future of AI agents will be secure and seamless like the web and mobile apps you use today. Below is a demo of how we created the Simple Agent, for employee onboarding for fast growing tech companies. When giving the agent access, you securely login to your Google account to give permission to create a new gmail account.
In the near future, AI agents like ChatGPT will likely become more seamlessly integrated into our digital lives. With improved sign-in options and secure access to your data, these agents will be able to organize your information, retrieve details on demand, and handle tasks our digital tasks.
Get a text that we need to reschedule a client lunch? An agent will understand the text, cancel the reservation, update the calendar invite, look at Salesforce to see if any other clients could attend.
Just Friends
But will ChatGPT become your best friend? Not right now. AI lacks the emotional depth and ability to share experiences that define human friendship. While it can learn a tremendous amount about you—potentially more than anyone else—knowing facts isn’t the same as forming a bond. Friendship thrives on mutual feelings and lived moments, things AI simply doesn’t have or understand.
Looking ahead, the future is less certain. If AI ever develops the illusion of emotions or the ability to share experiences with you, then we can revisit the idea of an AI best friend.
For now, ChatGPT and similar agents are powerful tools that are about to know more about you than anyone and be able to act on your behalf in the digital world!
Maybe that will help us spend more time connecting with other humans in the real world!