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Daniel Dines

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
396 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

And we repurposed that library for the sake of automation. So we can take a screenshot of an application, and if you want to click on a button, we can take an image of that button and then find it during replay, just call, you know, function, find this image of the button, I will get the coordinates and I will click on the button. But that was not the only thing that we did.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

And we repurposed that library for the sake of automation. So we can take a screenshot of an application, and if you want to click on a button, we can take an image of that button and then find it during replay, just call, you know, function, find this image of the button, I will get the coordinates and I will click on the button. But that was not the only thing that we did.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

We created, I think, a magical experience. So we let someone to record a flow on the screen. Just show, I need to click this button, indicate on the screen the button, and then we will generate like a very simple statement, like click that button with the image. Everything was stored. So you could have record an entire flow based only on working with images, even typing in an edit box.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

We created, I think, a magical experience. So we let someone to record a flow on the screen. Just show, I need to click this button, indicate on the screen the button, and then we will generate like a very simple statement, like click that button with the image. Everything was stored. So you could have record an entire flow based only on working with images, even typing in an edit box.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

We created, I think, a magical experience. So we let someone to record a flow on the screen. Just show, I need to click this button, indicate on the screen the button, and then we will generate like a very simple statement, like click that button with the image. Everything was stored. So you could have record an entire flow based only on working with images, even typing in an edit box.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

So we will capture the edit box image and then like a label and we will find them during runtime. But from the perspective of the user was really simple. So I remember it was like 2013 when I showed this product to some guys that were really Blue Prism experts.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

So we will capture the edit box image and then like a label and we will find them during runtime. But from the perspective of the user was really simple. So I remember it was like 2013 when I showed this product to some guys that were really Blue Prism experts.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

So we will capture the edit box image and then like a label and we will find them during runtime. But from the perspective of the user was really simple. So I remember it was like 2013 when I showed this product to some guys that were really Blue Prism experts.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

And in order to do the same thing in Bluebrism, it would have taken like two days, and the outcome would be not as reliable as in our case. I did in front of them this flow, like in three, five minutes, press run, and it worked. And I asked them, what do you think, guys? Total silence. They couldn't believe their eyes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

And in order to do the same thing in Bluebrism, it would have taken like two days, and the outcome would be not as reliable as in our case. I did in front of them this flow, like in three, five minutes, press run, and it worked. And I asked them, what do you think, guys? Total silence. They couldn't believe their eyes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

And in order to do the same thing in Bluebrism, it would have taken like two days, and the outcome would be not as reliable as in our case. I did in front of them this flow, like in three, five minutes, press run, and it worked. And I asked them, what do you think, guys? Total silence. They couldn't believe their eyes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

And that was our first niche where people would deploy and would prefer us versus Blue Prism. And from that one, we have basically expanded into what we are today.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

And that was our first niche where people would deploy and would prefer us versus Blue Prism. And from that one, we have basically expanded into what we are today.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

And that was our first niche where people would deploy and would prefer us versus Blue Prism. And from that one, we have basically expanded into what we are today.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

Yeah, I personally don't believe that the models can innovate in a material way in a reasonable amount of time. I think they reach maturity in a way. I think I am pleased with what LLMs can deliver, both frontier models, but also something like smaller models. Look, for instance, we are using Gwen, which is a fantastic model built by Alibaba. It's just totally open source.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

Yeah, I personally don't believe that the models can innovate in a material way in a reasonable amount of time. I think they reach maturity in a way. I think I am pleased with what LLMs can deliver, both frontier models, but also something like smaller models. Look, for instance, we are using Gwen, which is a fantastic model built by Alibaba. It's just totally open source.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

Yeah, I personally don't believe that the models can innovate in a material way in a reasonable amount of time. I think they reach maturity in a way. I think I am pleased with what LLMs can deliver, both frontier models, but also something like smaller models. Look, for instance, we are using Gwen, which is a fantastic model built by Alibaba. It's just totally open source.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

We are using it into understanding like a lot of our semi-structured documents. It's a lot of product.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

We are using it into understanding like a lot of our semi-structured documents. It's a lot of product.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

We are using it into understanding like a lot of our semi-structured documents. It's a lot of product.