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Olivia Moore

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
237 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So before I tackle that, I guess one of the things that we had very clear from the beginning when you're working on the frontier of technology is really what you have to reinvent versus what already exists, no?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And I think people might take an approach where they just reinvent everything just for the sake of it.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Some people would just wrap around anything else and be like more of a go-to-market thing.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

We started tackling the limiting factor always.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And again, back then, GPT, Paolo mentioned, 3.5 was relatively fast and not so good.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So we had to find T on the LLM.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Soon enough, we realized that prompting and all these good models came out.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Prompting was good enough.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Scratch that.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Let's do that.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And always focusing on that limiting factor then.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

voices, like the background noises, like supply chain is extremely messy.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

You're talking with drivers in their trucks with the radio on and background music and noises and accents.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So always focusing on those limiting factors.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

On the negotiation part, something we got very often was how do you prevent the bot from hallucinating a rate or like max buy?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

He's like, dude, I'm building this thing and it's just hallucinating max buy and it doesn't know how to negotiate.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

How are you guys able to do that?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And I think it's because

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

You don't need to show the AI what it doesn't need to see.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And I think we're very opinionated about this from the beginning where we're building these proxy servers and actually exposing to the agent all the things they need to see.