George Sivulka is the founder and CEO of enterprise AI platform Hebbia.
Insight
Generalized AI software will defeat vertical AI specialization
“One of the things that is a massive fallacy in AI applications today is verticalization. As paramount. All of the VCs, a lot of entrepreneurs as well, believe, because it's been true for the last 20 years, that building a very verticalized piece of software is…”
Opinion
AI hallucinations are old news; modern models outperform humans
“I think it's old news. And I think the only reason we still talk about it, it's like everyone talks about hallucinations and, you know, no one knows if it's happening or what's going on. It's like fugazi fugazi. Like, it was a problem back when the models were…”
Opinion
The alpha is gone for starting new AI companies today
“I don't mean to be relatively pessimistic, but I wouldn't start a company in AI. I mean that from the perspective of, like, the alpha is gone.”
Opinion
Sivulka is "very short" Accenture, consultancies, and the Big Four
“I'm very short Accenture and consultancies, but and the big four.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hybrid teams of humans and AI agents will dominate organizational structures
“You're going to start to have, you know, fully human organizations. Actually fully AI organizations like the one person billion dollar startup or, you know, these things that are effectively just APIs. And you'll actually have, and this will be the most common…”
Insight
Prompting AI agents will soon become synonymous with management
“As agents are rolled out, you'll actually start to see you know, people that are really good at prompting, really good at defining a process, be the best managers, and actually be the best at extending whatever their agenda is in the organization, or making th…”