Generative AI empowers non-PhD software builders to create specialized vertical agents
Florian Douetteau · The Single Platform for Everyday AI - Fireside Chat with Florian Douetteau (Dataiku) & Matt Turck · Jul 5, 2023 · at 38:09
Florian Douetteau, CEO of Dataiku, discusses how generative AI lowers technical barriers, allowing application builders to construct specialized vertical agents.
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“I think that what I see as very interesting with generative AI is that it's like a new Lego block enabling a new generation of hackers for many vertical applications. And there are like many, many, many, many vertical applications that can be built using and building specialized agents that combine multiple models and some business rules and just Solve and try to accelerate or automate a boring human task in a smart way. And I think they are like lots of new, a new generation of hackers that will be just doing that without having necessarily the need of having a PhD in natural language processing and deep learning to do so. Just a sheer willingness to solve a business problem and get into it and find the fastest way to do it.”
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