> - Find a good dentist within 2mi from my house, call them to make sure they take my insurance, and book an appointment sometime in the next two weeks no earlier than 11am

The web caused dentists to make websites, but they don't post their appointment calendar; they don't have to.

Will AI looking for appointments cause businesses to post live, structured data (like calendars)? The complexity of scheduling and multiple calendars is perfect for an AI solution. What other AI uses and interactive systems will come soon?

- Accounting: generate balance sheets, audit in real-time, and have human accountants double check it (rather than doing)

- Correspondence: create and send notifications of all sorts, and consume them

- Purchase selection: shifting the lack of knowledge about products in the customers favor

- Forms: doing taxes or applying for a visa

The problem is that we're reverting back to the stone age by throwing unnecessary resources at problems that have a simple and effective solution: open, standardised, and accessible APIs.

We wouldn't need to use an expensive (compute-wise) AI agent to do things like making appointments. Especially if in the end you'd end up with bots talking to bots anyway. The digital equivalent of always up-to-date yellow pages would solve many of these issues. Super simple and "dumb" but reliable programs could perform such tasks.

Scheduling multiple calendars doesn't require "AI" - it's a comparatively simple optimisation problem that can be solved using computationally cheap existing algorithms. It seems more and more to me that AI - and LLMs in particular - are the hammer and now literally everything looks like a nail...