Bret Taylor
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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So they're agents that do a job, a very specific job.
You know, there's companies like Harvey that serve a legal function.
There's all the coding agents, and I think there's some fairly effective ones right now.
Yeah, computer programmer.
Um I think this is really exciting because I think when you narrow
I call those cases narrow but deep.
If you're just trying to
That's right.
The tools you access and even how you evaluate the effectiveness is, you know, if you're building a coding agent, there's actually really good benchmarks already.
Similarly, compilers emit error messages and you might have integration tests.
You end up with this scaffolding that actually, practically speaking, limits the scope of sort of the true research that you have to do to accomplish it.
I think broadly speaking, with the advent of foundation models, a lot of
Effective AI right now is where you've taken areas of research and you made them areas of engineering.
And I think you can engineer very effective persona-based agents for certain domains where the technology applies, like the law, like uh areas of software engineering, things like that.
My take is the domain of personal agents is probably of the very large consumer companies like Apple and Google and OpenAI and others.
That have big consumer brands for the persona-based agents.
I think there's probably meaningful companies in each of those spaces because I think to do those effectively, it involves sort of the confluence of AI expertise and expertise in that domain.
The other category, which is the area that my company, Sierra works in, is what I call company agents.
And it's really less simply about automation or autonomy.
But in this world of conversational AI, how does your company exist digitally?
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