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Perszyk: The AI industry will outgrow chatbot paradigms within months

Danielle Perszyk · Why AI Agents Don't Actually Understand You — Danielle Perszyk, Amazon AGI Lab · Jul 11, 2026 · at 26:17

Danielle Perszyk of Amazon AGI Lab discusses the evolution of AI paradigms and interaction models with Swix on Latent Space.

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“I imagine that. In a matter of months, we will look back at today and we won't even be able to empathize with the mental models that we have right now because they are so over-indexed on chatbots and coding agents.”

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