Jonathan Siddharth, CEO of Turing, explains the scope of knowledge work across industries that AI models will ultimately automate.
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Siddharth: Agentic AI will replace services firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Accenture
“So I think like Turing will probably replace companies like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and every services company like Accenture, TCS, Wipro, Infosys, like all of these companies doing vanilla services that's going to be automated with these agentic systems.”
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Siddharth: Solving multimodality, reasoning, tool use, and coding yields ASI
“Turing's the world's leading research accelerator, working with all of these frontier labs to advance them along I would say the four pillars of superintelligence which is multimodality, reasoning, tool use, and coding. If you solve these four things, you will…”
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Siddharth: ASI means automating 90% of computer tasks for 90% of humans
“And I think of ASI as us having automated 90% of the tasks that 90% of humans do today in front of a computer, right?”
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Siddharth: Reasoning models ended demand for simple AI data factories
“This industry had a huge shift after the reasoning models came out late last year, O-one being the first. The shift is, before the reasoning models, this industry needed simple data. Gobs and gobs of simple data. You needed a data factory. Or, ah, this industr…”
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Siddharth: Enterprise AI performs best on 0.5B-to-10B parameter custom models
“It'll probably probably be a smaller model. Oftentimes we see a half a billion to a ten billion parameter model. That's the regime, not a trillion parameter model. And this will be faster, more accurate.”
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Siddharth: Custom LLMs will allow investment firms to employ fewer analysts
“I think, like, the best firms are already doing this, ah, to help an investment analyst make better decisions faster, and eventually with significantly fewer people.”