Bret Taylor
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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Well
much for joining us today, Brad.
My pleasure.
Thanks for having me.
How do you define agents or do you want me to define agents?
Agents means something different in academia than I think they mean in industry right now.
Um I think both definitions are important.
Just starting what I view as sort of the classic academic definition is a an agentic system is one where software can reason and take action autonomously, and it comes from the word agency.
And as a consequence of such a broad academic definition, I think it becomes sort of the proverbial inkblot test for people using the word
In industry right now, there's probably three categories of agent that I think are or are on the cusp of working.
The first, I think, which a lot of people online talk a lot about is personal agents.
And I think that's probably the earliest of the three categories that I see, but but maybe one of the more exciting ones.
You know, and this is the agent that will triage your inbox, schedule a vacation, um, help you prep for a meeting, manage your calendar.
All of that.
And the reason why I think that's earliest, I think it's really interesting to make some demos, but I think
The human-computer interaction and even how the agents interact with all the systems we depend on as people is quite complex.
You can think of sort of the surface area of both reasoning and systems integrations as almost infinite.
And so, as a consequence, I think it probably a prerequisite for a great personal agent, probably demands more technology than is currently available, though there's lots of interesting startups in this space, and you could imagine.
And some interesting companies carving out meaningful niche use cases that expand as the technology improves.
The second category of agent, I think this one does exist in some categories, is what I call persona-based agents.
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