Dan Martell - January 27, 2026


The 3 Levels of AI


Episode Stats


Length

57 seconds

Words per minute

232.13046

Word count

223

Sentence count

19


Summary

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Most people are still playing at the kiddie school level when it comes to artificial intelligence. There are three levels of AI. Level 1 is chat, level 2 is automation, and level 3 is agent. These are tools like Manus AI, Claude Cowork, and Google Antigravity.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 There's three levels of AI.
00:00:01.700 Most people are still playing at the kiddie school level.
00:00:04.200 Level one, chat, then there's automation,
00:00:06.680 and then there's agent.
00:00:07.900 It's kind of like going from point A to point B.
00:00:09.820 You could get there on a skateboard
00:00:11.400 under your own power, that's your chat.
00:00:12.940 You could use an electric scooter.
00:00:14.480 That's now automation where you got some mechanical stuff.
00:00:16.780 But the high level is to have a driver drive you in a car.
00:00:20.080 That is agent.
00:00:21.320 Chat, you have to come up with the idea,
00:00:22.880 you gotta figure out how to solve it.
00:00:23.880 You take everything out of the chat
00:00:25.260 and you go do something with it.
00:00:26.280 Automation says, whatever I just did there,
00:00:28.400 I want that to happen every time.
00:00:29.820 let me set it up on a schedule.
00:00:31.540 Think customer support, sales, marketing.
00:00:34.140 The highest level is agent.
00:00:36.060 These are tools like Manus AI, Claude Cowork,
00:00:38.820 Google Antigravity,
00:00:40.040 where your goal is to tell the AI what to do.
00:00:44.440 It builds a plan on how to get it done
00:00:47.020 and goes and does the whole thing.
00:00:48.720 If you don't level up,
00:00:50.000 it's like the person that discovered the car
00:00:51.840 with the driver
00:00:52.540 and you're trying to compete against them on a skateboard.
00:00:55.020 Most people are still working way too hard
00:00:56.980 when it comes to AI.