Anant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase. He discusses enterprise AI adoption criteria with Andreessen Horowitz partner Guido Appenzeller.
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Anant Bhardwaj: AI automation will fully replace legacy RPA
“The bet that we are taking is that AI will drive automation in a significant way. RPA would be fully eaten by AI automation, and the future is likely going to be more of decentralized, federated execution.”
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Bhardwaj: RAG alone is insufficient for high-accuracy enterprise data processing
“While drag is good for casual search, you need a complex workflow under the herd that is explainable, that is auditable, that is guaranteed to be accurate and correct, is important for solving many of these enterprise problems.”
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Bhardwaj: Enterprises reject black-box AI decisions without clear step-by-step explainability
“Nobody wants, like, AI making a decision, even if it is correct, if they cannot Explain here are the set of steps that it took, because if something wrong happened, they have to explain, because in human world you can explain.”
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Bhardwaj: Enterprise AI agents will operate at compile-time, not runtime
“So I do not believe that autonomous agent would be a runtime phenomena. However, there would be a build time or compile time phenomena.”
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Bhardwaj: Major capital will flow into building reliability systems around LLMs
“And that is going to be a lot of investment that you will see across the board, which is how do we build the right systems around AI and LLMs that solves the problem.”
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Bhardwaj: Indian bank conducts entire lending process conversationally over WhatsApp
“I was working with a bank in India, and now given that AI is, has become reasonably reliable, they are offering entire lending over WhatsApp.”