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Some complex processes can become mostly autonomous
Some complex processes can become mostly autonomous
Sottiaux distinguishes personal agents from full automation, describing systems that could handle tasks such as performance optimization, regression repair, and vulnerability patching with humans involved mainly for high-risk approvals.
- Interview
- How to Understand the Next Wave of AI Before Everyone Else | Thibault Sottiaux and Matthew Burman
- Speaker
- Thibault Sottiaux
- Topic
- AI automation
- Source timestamp
- 12:59
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