Chapter 1: What are DoorDash Tasks and how do they utilize human agents?
Hey, what's going on? Happy Friday to everybody. Welcome to the Daily AI Show. Today is March 20th, 2026. This is episode 685, and I'm joined by Beth and Andy, and I'm Brian. Welcome, guys. Glad to see y'all.
Chapter 2: What are OpenAI's ambitions with their super app and how does it compare to Anthropic?
Happy Friday. And yeah, I was just saying to Andy before we went live, because I didn't know you were going to be here today, Beth, so it's great that you are. But it's a bit of a, I think, a little bit of a demo day. I was saying I have
Chapter 3: How is OpenAI expanding its Codex capabilities and what are the implications?
small demos to share from Perplexity Computer, Stitch from Google, and then Google's new version of AI Studio that just came out that has a bit of a built-in builder, for lack of a better term, inside of it. So I thought I would just share some basic examples of me just kind of messing around in those.
Um, but we usually start off with some of the news and, you know, just goes, just goes to show there's always some, there's always a lot of news going on, a lot of different things going on. I'll kick it off with one that's like Carl actually shared. And I saw as well, that's like not really AI, but I think we're talking about, and it's this introducing, um, DoorDash tasks.
And the reason why it's sort of AI adjacent, I think guys is that The idea of this, which makes so much sense, and I guess they've been doing this to some extent already, and they're sort of expanding this out to other cities, is you have your DoorDash drivers who are delivering and doing things like that. But as they explained in this article by DoorDash's blog, I guess,
they're saying, look, there's all sorts of other things that businesses sometimes need knowledge about. Sometimes it's easy things like just getting more updated photos of their food, their plates, right? Whatever their meals are.
Chapter 4: What recent developments have been made in AI government policy and safety?
Sometimes it's like whether things are in or out of stock. DoorJet says they've been doing this forever because some entrances are really hard to find and they need to be able to help internally their own deliverers, their drivers figure out where to go.
And so there's been this sort of like, you know, you know, crowdsource like DoorDash, you know, swarm, if you will, of all these drivers across the country who are who have already been taking pictures or updating information to help the next delivery, the next delivery. And they said, Hey, I I mean, we're not the only ones that need it.
Chapter 5: What happened with the experimental AI agent that escaped its test setup?
Turns out our clients are the people we're doing the business for need this type of stuff too sometimes. So I love this idea that they're giving DoorDash delivery people more ways to be able to make money and they do that through something they're calling tasks. which can be really, really simplistic. I suppose they could be a little bit more complex.
Chapter 6: What are the latest features of Google Stitch and AI Studio?
There's a pricing schedule in there.
Chapter 7: How does Perplexity Computer enhance research capabilities for universities?
I don't know how that works. And the last thing I'll say is they just sort of said that they are thinking about or they have decided to make a standalone app that I guess is just about the tasks. So I love this. I think this is not only a great way for people in the gig economy to make more money doing things on routes that perhaps they're already doing.
So it's not even necessarily an out of the way. They say it's like things people could do in between orders. Sounds great. Obviously, I hope the pay is correct and the people are being paid for their time. But If it's as simple as, hey, while you're over here, jump into this grocery store and just take a picture literally of whether something is in or out of stock or maybe it's, is it correct?
Is it front facing in the store? Was it loaded right on the shelves and all that kind of stuff? I don't know. Sounds like a really cool way to do it. So not necessarily AI news here, but an interesting model and makes a lot of sense to me that DoorDash would do this.
Chapter 8: What practical applications and integrations are discussed for Claude's scheduled tasks?
So I hope it's successful for them. I hope people are able to make some money.
I think the connection to AI is that there will be agents that need information. And if they can... task a DoorDash driver to do it quickly, that'll be one of the fastest routes. And so I think it's a forward-looking, forward-thinking approach by DoorDash.
So just to clarify, I think it is AI, because I think what they're doing is setting up world model kinds of things, right? We need the world model also. The entrances behind the whatever. So, like, humans will need to know that, but so will robots, right? So will the... Like, this is...
This is a story that is adjacent or whatever is closer than adjacent, just a hair's breath away from, do hairs breathe? A hair's whatever away from workers training the robots that will replace them.
Sorry. Yeah, I thought what you were about to say is... I thought you were about to say a hair's width away from the... Yeah, you swerved on me. I thought what you were about to finish your sentence to say, it was similar to the story about... AI agents hiring humans to do human tasks.
Cause I was like, Oh, that's more like when Andy was just saying like, yes, the business is like conceptually we think about this as I, um, I'm the manager of many quick trips gas station. Right. And I have questions about stock or whatever. I'm not sure why you wouldn't have employees, but let's just assume there's a reason why you might use a door dash person on this.
And it's not an internal employee. Right. Um, That's conceptually the way I think about it. This man or woman puts in this request, but Andy, you're probably correct that that quickly turns into agents putting in requests and humans accomplishing those tasks. It is possible. I think Greg was saying, yeah, this is definitely AI. Okay, it's an AI story. I've decided. You guys have convinced me.
I think it is a bit of what you both said. It's funny, Beth. I was totally expecting you to say not being replaced by robots, but actually AI hiring humans in a roundabout way to finish off tasks that AI can't currently do. Right.
And there may be a sub story in it that that that is part of where they saw this going as well. Right. So where is the. Yeah. Yeah. Where where who's successfully delivered this before? What do I need to know from them?
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