Ben Plummer

Co-founder & CEO, Dragonfly · 1 appearance on the record.

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As CEO of Invisible Technologies, Plummer scaled the operational and AI training platform past $160 million in revenue. He later co-founded and became CEO of Dragonfly, following earlier executive work at Elemental Cognition and Bridgewater Associates.

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Plummer: Foundation model providers will not see ROI for 2–3 years

“The business models, but these technologies are so transformative that the ability to actually crack open AGI or something that even resembles something close to the power of that is so transformative for the economy that this is a real long game that they're …”

Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 1:32 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer

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Plummer: Top investment fund requires committee members to query AI bots

“There's one example where before going to an investment committee, each member of that investment committee actually has to engage with a bot and, Ask its questions and go through the verification processes as part of their overall investment committee decisio…”

Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 11:35 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer

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Plummer: Every business process will eventually transition to fully autonomous AI execution

“I think about it like a glide path, right? Where in the early days you might have the humans doing a hundred percent of the work, and then over time you start to have the model maybe suggest what the person might want to pick or come up with ideas in a sort of…”

Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 18:08 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer

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Plummer: Massive corporate headcounts will become a liability against AI-powered teams

“I do think directionally, this is very right that these technologies and companies like invisible will enable you to build really powerful global companies that are able to compete with others that have You know, thousands, hundreds of thousands of employees v…”

Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 27:40 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer

Opinion

Plummer: Enterprises lack in-house capabilities for ambitious AI transformations

“Enterprises are actually lagging a little bit in terms of how do they actually rewire the fabric of the organization using these technologies, but very early in the adoption cycle of that. And companies just don't have the capabilities in house to go after a r…”

Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 3:30 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer

Opinion

Plummer: ChatGPT overrepresented AI maturity for enterprise applications

“The way it hurt is I think it sort of overrepresented how mature these technologies are and how ready they are for enterprise applications.”

Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 5:00 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer

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Invisible Tech cut a 100-person, 10-year e-commerce catalog backlog to months

“We worked with the one of the largest e-commerce retailers has over a hundred million products in their catalog and was suffering from really poor data quality around those items, how they were categorized, how they were tagged to the descriptions that was rea…”

Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 13:20 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer

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Plummer: Complex autonomous AI agents are probably a couple of years away

“What we haven't really seen is the ability to sort of hand that meta problem and have the AI go sort of oversee and execute that work, handle changes in the face of disruptions. Those types of things, I think, were probably a couple of years away, but you'll s…”

Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 7:57 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer

Insight

Plummer: SaaS tool proliferation imposes a major complexity tax on workers

“I think a lot of the proliferation of these technologies has added this huge tax of complexity and switching costs that the technology is not yet streamlined, that we haven't actually seen a shift from increasing complexity Down into actual streamlining when y…”

Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 22:09 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plumm	Sep 5, 2024	19m

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