The 6 AI Use Case Primitives

In this episode of The AI Daily Brief, Nathaniel Whittemore discusses OpenAI's report on identifying and scaling AI use cases, focusing on six "use case primitives": content creation, research, coding, data analysis, ideation and strategy, and automation. He explains how these primitives are currently being used and how AI agents are likely to transform them in the future. He outlines three horizons: the near term with solo agents, a mid-term with context-aware agents and coordinated creative pods, and a distant future with entire synthetic creative studios and autonomous business units. Whittemore also touches on the advancements needed in memory, tool use frameworks, infrastructure agents, and coordination protocols to enable this acceleration, emphasizing the shift from humans using AI assistants to managing AI agents and swarms.