Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Daniel Dines

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
396 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

Think about you load a website. It's variable until it responds back, where maybe it's a lot of things that you have to build within the technology to make it more reliable. We have the experience with robots, and we are taking this experience to the agents. It's not so difficult to build an agent as to make it working reliably.

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

Think about you load a website. It's variable until it responds back, where maybe it's a lot of things that you have to build within the technology to make it more reliable. We have the experience with robots, and we are taking this experience to the agents. It's not so difficult to build an agent as to make it working reliably.

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

Think about you load a website. It's variable until it responds back, where maybe it's a lot of things that you have to build within the technology to make it more reliable. We have the experience with robots, and we are taking this experience to the agents. It's not so difficult to build an agent as to make it working reliably.

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

Thousands of times, you go there, you call it as part of an enterprise workflow, and it has to work. Otherwise, enterprises are not going to deliver them in an autonomous fashion in production. One story that I keep hearing from our customers is they prefer our workflows to fail than to be too smart because their risk appetite for this type of workloads, it's low.

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

Thousands of times, you go there, you call it as part of an enterprise workflow, and it has to work. Otherwise, enterprises are not going to deliver them in an autonomous fashion in production. One story that I keep hearing from our customers is they prefer our workflows to fail than to be too smart because their risk appetite for this type of workloads, it's low.

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

Thousands of times, you go there, you call it as part of an enterprise workflow, and it has to work. Otherwise, enterprises are not going to deliver them in an autonomous fashion in production. One story that I keep hearing from our customers is they prefer our workflows to fail than to be too smart because their risk appetite for this type of workloads, it's low.

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

This is the mentality of our customers. That will be the same mentality with delivering agents. Agents will make recommendations. Agents are not going to take actions directly. There will be a progression from agents making recommendations, going to a human user for validating, and then calling an action.

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

This is the mentality of our customers. That will be the same mentality with delivering agents. Agents will make recommendations. Agents are not going to take actions directly. There will be a progression from agents making recommendations, going to a human user for validating, and then calling an action.

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

This is the mentality of our customers. That will be the same mentality with delivering agents. Agents will make recommendations. Agents are not going to take actions directly. There will be a progression from agents making recommendations, going to a human user for validating, and then calling an action.

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

Not because we are scared, because they are like idiot savants. Sometimes they can be extremely smart, sometimes they can be extremely dumb. You have no idea right now how to distinguish between these two scenarios.

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

Not because we are scared, because they are like idiot savants. Sometimes they can be extremely smart, sometimes they can be extremely dumb. You have no idea right now how to distinguish between these two scenarios.

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

Not because we are scared, because they are like idiot savants. Sometimes they can be extremely smart, sometimes they can be extremely dumb. You have no idea right now how to distinguish between these two scenarios.

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

they make mistakes they make errors they make errors of judgment this is this is why most enterprises will create a lot of rule-based workflows and a lot of precision type of enterprise workflows they would not let people every time to decide who should i call should i call daniel or should i call harry for this job no it's based on rules

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

they make mistakes they make errors they make errors of judgment this is this is why most enterprises will create a lot of rule-based workflows and a lot of precision type of enterprise workflows they would not let people every time to decide who should i call should i call daniel or should i call harry for this job no it's based on rules

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

they make mistakes they make errors they make errors of judgment this is this is why most enterprises will create a lot of rule-based workflows and a lot of precision type of enterprise workflows they would not let people every time to decide who should i call should i call daniel or should i call harry for this job no it's based on rules

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

As long as it's going to take for the nice self-driving cars that we have today to be fully autonomous and to drive, you know, sides with people on the streets and they will just work.

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

As long as it's going to take for the nice self-driving cars that we have today to be fully autonomous and to drive, you know, sides with people on the streets and they will just work.

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

As long as it's going to take for the nice self-driving cars that we have today to be fully autonomous and to drive, you know, sides with people on the streets and they will just work.

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

In the same time, we will reduce actually a lot the human input. We are going to a place where we'll have a semi-autonomous agent that will do most of the job. And humans will just sit, monitor their inboxes. They will get task slides. Please validate this. Please validate this. Answer this. I need this information.

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

In the same time, we will reduce actually a lot the human input. We are going to a place where we'll have a semi-autonomous agent that will do most of the job. And humans will just sit, monitor their inboxes. They will get task slides. Please validate this. Please validate this. Answer this. I need this information.