Enterprise AI Agents: Is This The AWS Moment For Digital Labor? | Kurt Muehmel, Dataiku

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Enterprise AI agents help us “focus on making the beer taste better” aka the 20%+ of efforts that drive 80%+ of the results.Kurt Muehmel, Head of AI Strategy at Dataiku, returned to AI with Alec for another AI deep dive. This time, the focus was enterprise AI agents and why they represent a fundamental shift in how work gets done.The thought provoking conversation moved through a number of critical success drivers for enterprise AI agents including the following:  1: Three-part definition of AI agents that cuts through agent washing hype2: Why technology capabilities are racing ahead of enterprise adoption3: The “AWS moment” for AI…are we approaching standardization of the abstraction layer between intelligent systems and human collaboration?4: Implications of AI agents helping us “traverse the boundaries of traditional software”5: Building the “hybrid human agent workforce” including the tooling and mindset shifts requiredLink to "The LLM Mesh: An Architecture for Building Agentic Applications in the Enterprise": https://pages.dataiku.com/oreilly-tech-guide-llm-mesh00:00 - Introduction & Welcome00:29 - Enterprise AI Agents Fundamentals01:28 - Three-Part Definition: LLM, Autonomy, Integration05:48 - Breaking Software Silos & Application Boundaries09:28 - Focus on Making the Beer Taste Better12:22 - Enterprise Use Cases: From Support to Complex Judgment18:38 - Single Agent vs Multi-Agent Architectures21:42 - Digital Labor & Cultural Adoption Challenges28:19 - The Hybrid Human-Agent Workforce30:18 - Future Model Architectures & The AWS Moment36:08 - Services-Oriented Architecture for AI37:00 - Wrap-up & Kurt's O'Reilly Book on LLM Mesh

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