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

Pablo Palafox

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
220 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

to help you when your car breaks down is very similar to when a trucking company has a broken truck.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

That sort of problems are repeatable across the real economy, if you will, when there's this coordination problem across customers, partners, and your own employees.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

I think it's super important that the experience remains as human as possible, even if you say that it's an AI.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

We're now live with hundreds of thousands of end customers or end users talking to our agents, not only via email or chatbot or website, whatever it is, but mostly through voice.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Like voice is one of our primary channels.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And one thing we saw is even if you say it's an AI, even if you disclose at the beginning, hey, Mr. Driver, I'm an AI agent.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

I'm calling you because I need to know where you are.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

At the beginning, they might be like,

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

what do you just say?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

But then very soon they forget.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And they forget in a good way because they are now just having a normal conversation with a system that is smart enough to not make their life or their day even harder than it was already before.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So I think the conversationalness, the human-like capabilities are very important to

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

make technology work.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So for us, the product is shaped around that experience.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Some people were telling us at the beginning, like, no, you don't need these agents to sound superhuman.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Why are you investing so much on the text speech?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Why do you care if the agent just mispronounces a load number, a shipment number?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

It's like, what do you mean?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

That's the whole point.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

You want the experience to be as good as possible.