Paul Sweeney - Limerick, Poetry and Startups

And weirdly, we're, what, three, four years into LLMs? When did ChatGPT come out?

I think that's

two or three years, three or four years.

I'd say it's on four years ago now.

Yeah, so we're four years into LLMs being out on the market.

And still, you're not actually seeing...

And I remember back in the day talking to you and others about this and, you know, that whole vision of what was going to happen with AI and commerce.

And weirdly, actually, more what we're doing is using AI to talk about our feelings, to do evil things, to, you know, basically like a Google sort of give me random facts things.

And that commercial size thing, We know it's coming, but it's still not there yet, is

it? Absolutely.

It is a fair comment.

So if you look at the theory of, okay, we're going to give this task to an assistant and the assistant's going to do it.

So in our theory, it was we're in WhatsApp.

we're gonna give the WhatsApp agent a job to do, which is, hey, contact Ben, confirm that you owe him 50 euro, transfer the 50 euro to him, and do that automatically, right? So in a way you could go, yeah, that's kind of agents doing kind of agentic-y things and calling up services like we know today.

It's just that we're not doing that.

Like we don't tell our WhatsApp, go pay Ben, right? But the one, two, threes of the service are we might still go to our Anthropic or our OpenAI and say, hey, I need you to call a service and go do a job.

So the process is now being used.

That agentic process is still being used.

It's just not being used in the retail kind of person-to-person way.

It's being used at work.

It's being used behind the scenes for... or enterprise jobs, but it has not been used from the front end.

And the front end, I think it's instructive to go back and look at something like the Amazon service that when you say its name, it's activated.

So we used to say this in podcasts, don't say the name because everyone's Alexa.

Don't

say Alexa.