Enterprise AI adoption cannot start directly with AI agents, says Shagoury
Antoine Shagoury · Implementing AI In The Real World — With Kyndryl's Antoine Shagoury · Jan 31, 2025 · at 1:11
Kyndryl CTO Antoine Shagoury explains the operational and technical prerequisites for enterprise AI deployment to Alex Kantrowitz.
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“Especially with agents, it's, you don't start there. It doesn't start with an agent. There's a whole different process that kind of gets us into that set of capabilities.”
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