Douetteau: AI model quality won't be the key bottleneck in 2-5 years
Florian Douetteau · Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku · Dec 12, 2024 · at 32:57
Florian Douetteau is the co-founder and CEO of Dataiku. He discusses how enterprise challenges shift away from model accuracy as generative AI tools mature.
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“I, for instance, don't think that the problem two years or five years from now of agents will be relevance, per se, as in the quality of the models. The problem will be very boring stuff, such as, is it the right data, or have we actually updated the data for the rag every hour or so, or is it stale data that is, like, one month old, hence it provides bad results? Do we have any type of security problem or security leakage because we haven't identified what is given to whom in terms of answers? Do we actually understand, oh, we are spending the money, and do we have some users that, you know, generate 10% of the users generating 19% of the cost? I mean, these type of issues that are the very boring issues you get when scaling things in the enterprise will be happening in agents. And that, I think, will be the remaining of the problems, because the quality of the models themselves will just keep improving enough. So that question of, like, whether it's the right summary or the right answer will not be the key one.”
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