AI just started making the calls and chats you keep putting off

Two posts went around X this weekend, and both were about the same thing: AI stopped just answering questions and started running errands.

The bill that got cut

X user Mike P told his Grok Bot to "go figure out how to pay for itself." This one was a chat, not a call: the bot worked through Xfinity's online support chat, and Mike P says he watched the whole thing. The screenshot he shared shows the result: his Xfinity internet moved to a 300 Mbps plan at $70.90 a month, no contract, which the bot says is $43 a month less than October's $113.90 bill. That saving is the bot's own figure: October's bill was already out, so the bot says the lower price will only show up as an adjustment on next month's bill, and it plans to check that bill when it arrives. The rep pitched a mobile line twice, and the bot said no both times. The bot's message ends: "Nice work approving it." Elon Musk quoted it: "This really works!"

The table that got booked

Brian Roemmele built a Grok Bot whose only job is to phone a restaurant and book a table. He connected an outside calling service to give it a phone number, then asked for "4 people, tonight, around 7." It found the number, asked how flexible he was on time and what name to use, read everything back, and waited for his OK before it dialled. Afterwards it told him what the restaurant said and offered to add the booking to his calendar. Musk shared that one too.

Why a small business should care

The point isn't restaurants. Roemmele's own list: haircuts, tee times, an oil change, calling around for quotes from a plumber or a caterer. Those are the calls that sit on a to-do list for days.

Two habits stand out in both stories. The person said what they wanted in one plain sentence. And a person signed off on the step that mattered: the plan change, the call itself.

The honest catch

Phone calls aren't built in out of the box. Roemmele plugged in a separate calling service, and he set his own limits: it never hands over card details, makes one call at a time and never calls on its own.

Garry's crew is watching which errands people hand over first. Which one would you give away?