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Luan: Chatbots and AI Agents Are Becoming Distinct Technology Species
“I kind of think that chat bots like chat GPT and stuff and agents are kind of becoming different species of technology a little bit, right? Like I think they'll be useful in very different ways and what they need to be used for super different, right?”
David Luan: GPT-4o is significantly underhyped relative to its scientific improvements
“I think the degree to which GPT four O was like, I think relatively under hyped relative to what I think the true scientific improvements have been in that model is, is, is this pretty big gap?”
Luan: Addressable Work for AI Agents Is 1,000x to 10,000x Greater Than RPA
“What's the percentage of work done today that's addressable by agents? It's like, A thousand X that maybe? 10,000 X that? I don't know. Something in that order of magnitude.”
David Luan: Chat interfaces are not the right paradigm for AI
“And so that's why the HCI problem, like people just aren't spending enough time thinking about like chat is obviously not it.”
Luan: AI success is existential for tier-one cloud providers
“I think every tier one cloud provider existentially needs to win here.”
Luan: Google Brain was the Bell Labs of the 2012–2018 AI era
“That, like, 2012 to 20 18 or so era, Google Brain was just, like, incredibly dominant. They did an amazing job picking talent. Like, the people who invented Transformer, the people who invented the diffusion model, people who did all of these new optimization …”