The hope for smaller startups is data security and privacy. Many companies that I'm talking to have concerns about what amounts to corporate espionage hidden within updated terms of use. Sure, sales, customer service and marketing are primed for AI, but that's all public data anyway. Many are still surprised at the scale of the scraping for research now being resold via subscription. No one is trusting legacy technology providers to just process IP but never use it for training data. That trust is not easily recovered. Startups that can deliver the similar services with better security and privacy may still have a path to remain competitive.
I think it's interesting in terms of agents being "triggered" to be responsible for doing a process from end to end and probably involve a human where necessary. I'm just guessing as I have not seen the Ignite videos or the Venture Beat discuss (which I will, thank you for that). I think it would be even more interesting how Microsoft is going to do the triggering because as I imagine they're talking about some API but that seems limited which may be the point of their strategy. They could open it up by adding events to a stream or message queue where agents could listen for events they need to respond to and so any vendor or start-up could write agents and add value to those events. Just a thought. Thanks for sharing this one, it's an interesting bit of news.
I think this is where their power with internal and 3rd party integrations comes in. They could set it up to be triggered by receiving and email or a variety of hooks etc in other pieces of software.
Sam, I work for a large corporation where only Microsoft AI is allowed (for security reasons, I assume). We have Copilot integrated into our 365 environment, but in practice, it works very slowly and output is avarage. Personally, I prefer creating my own workflows in Python after work, using different LLMs -my favorite being Claude Sonnet. Maybe this new update will be better, but so far, I’m not a fan of Microsoft’s approach.
haha This is MS being A holes about it and spitting out sabpar products just to be relevant lol Thanks for this comment, gives hope to the devs who are working on products like this!
Most the big companies jump in quickly and then iterate. For me the most interesting thing here is they are probably choosing ideas given to them by their customers. Copilot seems to have done a pivot from being a ChatGPT style thing to something more agentic. If you get time checkout the conversation on VentureBeat we talked about these things.
Oh look, they're replacing roles one by one. I bet their goal is to stand up a fully-autonomous company - or at least be able to say that they could if they wanted to.
Agents are coming. They struggle a bit until they engage with a truth seeking agent. Then return back to source of origin to test its “information reality “ after encountering a significant anomaly that would cause it to hallucinate or remain silent. This is not the same as a LLM model. Not even close. Best practice is to assume agents will align towards truth in order to act accordingly not default protocol. Regardless. Agents are coming. It is unwise to assume them at all. Jeremy
Woe to you, O earth and sea. For the devil sends the beast with fear. Because he knows his days are numbered. Let the one who has understood the AI development calculate its consequences. Because it will have far-reaching consequences, especially for operating systems.
who care ? Big corps just want to secure their bags. And if thing turn out not pretty well, they'll hire someone else to clean up and pretend like they did nothing wrong since they have sheet ton of money.
rfpgenius AI fixes this (Automated Proposal Generator). rosoft launches 10 new AI agents.
The hope for smaller startups is data security and privacy. Many companies that I'm talking to have concerns about what amounts to corporate espionage hidden within updated terms of use. Sure, sales, customer service and marketing are primed for AI, but that's all public data anyway. Many are still surprised at the scale of the scraping for research now being resold via subscription. No one is trusting legacy technology providers to just process IP but never use it for training data. That trust is not easily recovered. Startups that can deliver the similar services with better security and privacy may still have a path to remain competitive.
Agent can be like a personal assistant/secretary. We will have Agent designer in the future as a job I think.
"Reduce costs" and "increase efficiency" = reduce headcount. Almost always.
Why do people still think they will have a job. What does this mean? Only creativity is left. Hope your a dreamer cos that's huge value
Agent Smith is my favorite
I think it's interesting in terms of agents being "triggered" to be responsible for doing a process from end to end and probably involve a human where necessary. I'm just guessing as I have not seen the Ignite videos or the Venture Beat discuss (which I will, thank you for that). I think it would be even more interesting how Microsoft is going to do the triggering because as I imagine they're talking about some API but that seems limited which may be the point of their strategy. They could open it up by adding events to a stream or message queue where agents could listen for events they need to respond to and so any vendor or start-up could write agents and add value to those events. Just a thought. Thanks for sharing this one, it's an interesting bit of news.
I think this is where their power with internal and 3rd party integrations comes in. They could set it up to be triggered by receiving and email or a variety of hooks etc in other pieces of software.
Sam, I work for a large corporation where only Microsoft AI is allowed (for security reasons, I assume). We have Copilot integrated into our 365 environment, but in practice, it works very slowly and output is avarage. Personally, I prefer creating my own workflows in Python after work, using different LLMs -my favorite being Claude Sonnet. Maybe this new update will be better, but so far, I’m not a fan of Microsoft’s approach.
haha This is MS being A holes about it and spitting out sabpar products just to be relevant lol Thanks for this comment, gives hope to the devs who are working on products like this!
Most the big companies jump in quickly and then iterate. For me the most interesting thing here is they are probably choosing ideas given to them by their customers. Copilot seems to have done a pivot from being a ChatGPT style thing to something more agentic. If you get time checkout the conversation on VentureBeat we talked about these things.
Oh look, they're replacing roles one by one. I bet their goal is to stand up a fully-autonomous company - or at least be able to say that they could if they wanted to.
These sound like just business rules and not necessarily AI agents. Is there true autonomy?
is there an agent that answers phones?
I saw one that attend zoom meetings for you with a clone of your face and voice. 😂
It's called bhuman if I remember correctly
Agents are coming.
They struggle a bit until they engage with a truth seeking agent.
Then return back to source of origin to test its “information reality “
after encountering a significant anomaly that would cause it to hallucinate or remain silent.
This is not the same as a LLM model.
Not even close.
Best practice is to assume agents will align towards truth in order to act accordingly not default protocol.
Regardless.
Agents are coming. It is unwise to assume them at all.
Jeremy
You lost me at Microsoft...
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😂😂😂
😂😂😂🎉
Easily lost
agent is just a prompt, why they charge $70/month?
Are these agents available for free?
I don’t think so, they are part of their paid products
Woe to you, O earth and sea. For the devil sends the beast with fear. Because he knows his days are numbered. Let the one who has understood the AI development calculate its consequences. Because it will have far-reaching consequences, especially for operating systems.
who care ? Big corps just want to secure their bags. And if thing turn out not pretty well, they'll hire someone else to clean up and pretend like they did nothing wrong since they have sheet ton of money.
All is already long lost