Levine: Data-driven digital assistants will augment workers across all professions
Peter Levine · a16z Podcast | The End (and Beginning) of Programming · Jan 2, 2019 · at 15:43
Peter Levine, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses the shift toward data-driven digital assistants that learn from expert behaviors to improve worker productivity across various industries.
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“I mean, in some ways it's already happening. There are companies out there who look at Salesforce productivity, looking at the most productive salespeople in an organization, learn what they do, modify that, and then go give that information to, so where everyone gets assisted by this new technology, a lot of that stuff is starting to happen. We may not think about it as The data economy, or this change in programming, but it is starting to happen as we have these new models where we can process massive amounts of information, and to where the outcomes really become, I'd say, digital assistance to humans to actually make them better. Whether it's the football player, the auto mechanic, the accountant, the lawyer, or the salesperson, Each of those can be better based on observing the experts in that field, and I would argue it's starting to happen. And sure, it'll take a long time and all that, but I definitely see it.”
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