Benioff: Consumer phone AI will eventually interconnect with corporate brand agents
Marc Benioff · Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job · Nov 27, 2024 · at 20:29
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff discusses the future interaction model between consumer personal AI assistants and corporate enterprise bots.
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“Right now, you might just be talking directly to us because that's the most trusted path, and we're in a new world where, yes, your technology that you're using on your phone is going to be smarter, and also the technology of these companies is going to be smarter, and eventually they're going to interconnect and collaborate and share and help you to Achieve your goals and achieve that level of abundance that we're talking about without all of a sudden having another person in your life who's gonna make all those things happen. You're gonna be able to have it all done with the technology and the agent.”
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