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Darren Patterson

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The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

All of the above.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

Actually, I describe it as either we were prescient or quite lucky, but we've been doing automation for some 10 years now.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

And of course, the world of automation has changed significantly in the last few years, as you guys would certainly know.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

And that fateful day in November, I think it was 2022, when ChatGPT became known to the masses,

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

That was a moment in time that we saw people begin to experiment with, how do I actually incorporate AI into my business processes?

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

And so Make was actually supremely suited to be able to take advantage of that trend and enable you to experiment very quickly with incorporating it into your business process.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

But of course, as we learn more about the capabilities of generative AI, we learned AI can actually reason.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

And that's an interesting thought unto itself.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

And if AI can reason, it means it's not just part of the workflow, but it's actually driving the workflow.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

So we actually commonly describe automation among a spectrum.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

And the spectrum has, on one end, automated workflows that are highly deterministic.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

And on the other end, you have agentic workflows that are highly non-deterministic, and you're giving a lot of flexibility to an AI agent to make decisions.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

Of course, in the middle, there is even workflows that have steps that are AI to generate content or analyze content or whatever the case may be.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

We have a firm belief that all those approaches are absolutely valid for businesses, both small and large, to be able to really achieve significant value from the automation spectrum.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

And of course, agentic parts of it, but non-agentic parts of it as well.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

Yeah.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

Increasingly, we see people, they need a skill set to figure out when to apply the right one, right?

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

So it's not a black and white sort of piece.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

So understanding what's important for that particular business capability.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About

You know, we're almost on the scale of Nvidia.