NLW on the Future of AI Agents
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The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
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What is this episode about?
Today on the AI Daily Brief, a special interview with me on the future of AI agents. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. To join the conversation, follow the Discord link in our show notes. Hello, friends. Welcome back to another AI Daily Brief. I am traveling this week, so we're doing a couple episodes that'll be different. I do have my podcast gear, so I will be recording some normal episodes. But for today, I'm sharing the first part of an interview that I did with another podcast, a great one called Tool Use, a couple of weeks ago about AI agents. Obviously, this is the topic du jour, and because I was in the interviewee chair for this one, I got to riff a little bit more broadly around what I think the future of agents actually looks like than I otherwise normally would.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to share a little more than half of this episode, and then I'll send you out a link to where you can find the rest of it on their feed, the guys over at Tool Use interview builders and entrepreneurs, and other folks who are actually using AI day in and day out about how they're using AI. So if that's interesting to you, I highly encourage you to go check out their show. So again, today's episode is an interview with me about the future of AI agents. Today's episode is brought to you by Vanta. That's where Vanta comes in. Businesses use Vanta to establish trust by automating compliance needs across over 35 frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Centralized security workflows complete questionnaires up to 5x faster and proactively manage vendor risk. Vanta can help you start or scale up your security program by connecting you with auditors and experts to conduct your audit and set up your security program quickly. Plus, with automation and AI throughout the platform, Vanta gives you time back so you can focus on building your company.
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Why does NLW think the definition of AI agents doesn't matter?
We're super glad to have you on. I guess we can kind of kick things off. I think everyone kind of has their own definition of what an agent is, it seems like. There's not really a very good definition. I'm kind of curious how you define an agent and kind of what that means to you. I actually have a super strong point of view on this. You'll find this is a common thread for me. So you see a lot of kind of hand-wringing, I think, among people who have been in AI for a long time or who are sort of more technical experts on how mangled the definition of agent is as it's found its way into enterprise and stuff. And I actually think that we should not care about that. I think that when people on average are talking about agents or referring to agents, they're bucketing AI into two categories. AI that I have to use and AI that does stuff for me, right? Like without me having to really, you know, tell it other than maybe that one first time. And obviously that's, you know, not super precise, but I think broadly it gets people kind of in the way to think about it.
Like particularly if you're, you know, an enterprise leader and you're thinking about whether you're going to deploy, you know, kind of a assistant style AI or agents, like they really kind of broadly bucket into those two categories. I also think that we've so rarely had as much
What are the current use cases for AI agents?
like narrative consolidation around a single term that's like kind of in the ballpark that the fact that everyone kind of knows this term and is there like trying to kind of like, you know, get into the nitty gritty between agent and automation, I just think is ultimately sort of a not particularly relevant pursuit.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is this episode about?
0:00–2:28
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Why does NLW think the definition of AI agents doesn't matter?
2:28–3:40
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What are the current use cases for AI agents?
3:40–7:35
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How can beginners start using AI in their business?
7:35–11:53
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What tools are essential for automating business processes with AI?
11:53–14:28
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How is Superintelligent using AI to automate knowledge processes?
14:28–24:13