Comment by scrollaway

4 years ago

I used Magic throughout, on and off for several years. They are on getmagic.com now.

They went from high quality concierge service, to low quality virtual assistant work, in a gradual shift.

Now they're essentially reselling upwork/fiverr services, as when you ask for something they will likely end up using this. It's down to a very small amount of use cases, frankly, as their service is no longer high quality. They also pulled some fast ones on me throughout that time; for example, as they lowered their prices, they conveniently grandfathered me into the older, higher price while still lowering the quality of their service.

Even when using them successfully, they seem to spend ages doing the most inane, basic things and over-bill for it.

Nowadays I use Chatterboss (https://chatterboss.com/). Magic's only useful feature is that it's humans available 24/7; but on Chatterboss the assistants know you and your business inside and out at least. Though I have my own share of issues with CB too (such as their super weird pricing which feels like buying a car and being sold twenty options which aren't so optional).

To be honest, this is why I'm excited about ChatGPT. The past month, I've used ChatGPT for many tasks I would have previously handed out the same way (in the same english!) to a virtual assistant. And ChatGPT just gave... better results, and gave them almost instantly.

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ageitgey  4 years ago

What kind of tasks have you accomplished with ChatGPT? I'm curious because the obvious things I can think of (like scheduling a meeting) would require it to talk to other APIs. I'd love to hear what worked for you.

  • benmanns  4 years ago

    I used them as a “virtual travel agent” similar to the prompt on https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts#act-as-a-travel...

    It’s nice to be able to respond, “I’ve done 1 already, 2 is too far a drive, and 3 is not my vibe, give me 3 more options” and get a good result. I even asked it “what would the iCal format for doing this activity next Tuesday at 11am look like” and it generated one reasonably close (though in UTC time zone).