Episode 4: The State of the Generative AI Market: Parallels to Speech Recognition and Enterprise Software

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[email protected]: Welcome back to motivation. AI matters I’m really excited for our guest today. I’m joined by Prisato’s senior vice president of go-to-market strategy. Vippel v us vit bull it’s great to have you on on today’s episode.

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[email protected]: Now I know you and I work really closely together. But to start things off for the listeners. Do you mind giving us a bit of background on who you are.

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[email protected]: your career? And what led you to Pristado?

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Vipul Vyas: Sure I at Prisado currently I, as you mentioned to head up our go to market strategy team that encompasses a few things. That’s an unusual title and role. But it involves our sales. Engineers, solutions, consultants that are synonymous in our organization. along with their product marketing organization or value engineering group, which really quantifies and helps us understand the business impact

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Vipul Vyas: we have on our clients along with our education enablement team and our commercialization team. So it’s a few different groups that also under one umbrella

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Vipul Vyas: that we use to really provide our customers with. a high touch experience in terms of understanding and quantifying the impact that we have giving the tools that need to be able to succeed on their own

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Vipul Vyas: etc., and then just helping them understand their solutions as well. in terms of career.

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Vipul Vyas: I can go all the way back. I was a management consultant for many years until I got my first real job. so I was at price Waterhouse and booz Allen did my mba at Dartmouth undergraduate Virginia, and my first quote, unquote, real job is after I left

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Vipul Vyas: booz, Allen. I went to a startup. had to actually be convinced to go, because that was too risky, and this was in 1,999. It was in the speech recognition, space, went from speech, recognition to voice by metrics. so me see, machines understanding what people say to machines, understanding who said it? And then I would. Did a little bit of a time and health care as another start up that I I founded, and then I found myself at Prisato back, helping

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Vipul Vyas: make the robots smarter, as I was doing with speech, recognition, and voice by metrics. So that’s how I found myself here at Prisado. I’m getting back into the natural language processing world that it started out in almost 20 years ago. I also am an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco, focusing on emerging technologies and also in healthcare space.

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[email protected]: So you sit in a very unique position at Prisato, one which I have a I’m fortunate enough to have a front row seat to participate in. We’ve had some great guests in the last couple of weeks talking about what generative AI means to marketers. We had a guest on last episode to talk about

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[email protected]: security and safety around implementing these technologies.

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[email protected]: Your focus in our day to day is around the business implications of using generative AI. Talk to me a little bit about the efficiency and efficacy framework that you’ve been working on the past couple of months, because I know it’s gotten a lot of attention from executives through Prisado.

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Vipul Vyas: Sure. we look at it. As you just mentioned in terms of AI specifically generative AI can have an impact in terms of improving efficiency and also impacting efficacy.

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Vipul Vyas: And so what that means is, it can. Obviously, you know, people have visually felt things like chat. Gbt, if folks have used it, make doing a specific task much faster.

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Vipul Vyas: You know what would have a report that would have taken, or a blog post that would have taken, you know, a couple of to 3 h to create happens now in minutes, and then can be edited and smoothed out

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Vipul Vyas: in no time at all. So there’s a massive efficiency gain, you know. It’s like going from a push real lawnmower to a riding lawn. Or

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Vipul Vyas: there’s this. Obviously, you know a big difference. Or you know, men with shovels or people shovels to a back home. Right? It’s just that kind of just brute power brought into one person’s hands. And that’s pretty substantial. Now, in terms of impact efficacy.

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Vipul Vyas: that really, we think of in terms of performance. So is what is being produced. also getting you a

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Vipul Vyas: increase in the business metric. It’s trying to move

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Vipul Vyas: And so what I mean by that is the blog post that I alluded to before. Yes, you could write it faster now, certainly. But did it get more eyeballs that it get more traffic to it, get more through traffic to whatever potentially product you were trying to sell or promote. That is where efficacy plays a role.

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Vipul Vyas: And in most cases these technologies, generally speaking, have not started impact

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Vipul Vyas: that space. They do so in a tangential way in that.

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Vipul Vyas: Now you’re able to do more things and get to more things that before we’re never gotten to just because you couldn’t. And so, having lifted the constraint of limited labor, you now are able to do more things, and you’re becoming effective through that mechanism. But at a discrete sort of unit level. most of the tools are still on

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Vipul Vyas: the trajectory of improving efficiency.

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Vipul Vyas: Now. when you do both, when you can improve both efficiency and efficacy.

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Vipul Vyas: That’s when things sort of get

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Vipul Vyas: warped or you enter it sort of a a totally different world.

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Vipul Vyas: And you can do many more magical things, the the constraints that you were living within the past of completely disappeared. And so things can have fundamental shifts and paradigms. Can really, you know, can move. So

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Vipul Vyas: that’s where I think we’re heading very soon is where we’re going beyond just efficiency gains and also impacting efficacy. And the combination of

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Vipul Vyas: those 2, which is the ultimate, better, faster, cheaper. is where there’s going to be even more profound impact. So I can give you some examples that very quickly. you know, in the legal space.

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Vipul Vyas: you were, you’re now able to efficiently review

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Vipul Vyas: dozens and dozens, if not thousands, of contracts, and look for compliance to a new indemnification or limitation of liability framework like how many of these are in line with our new standard? How many of these are not, and before you need, like a paralegal, or maybe in a lawyer, to wade through all of these, and that is arduous. Mistakes can happen. And now you can just do that much more efficiently. but you can also get some interesting efficacy gains where

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Vipul Vyas: that are related efficiency where now we have inbound complaints for consumer

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Vipul Vyas: inbound messages and communications that may flag for litigation, litigation risk.

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and you just couldn’t ever get to them all.

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Vipul Vyas: And so you couldn’t flag which things were potentially sources of

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Vipul Vyas: legal exposure and which ones were not. Now you can actually sift through those and say, okay. The person who slipped on a great better grocery section probably is more of a concern than someone who’s describing it about our prices.

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Vipul Vyas: and so you can wade through that and identify things that before.

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Vipul Vyas: just because of lack of manpower, lack of just resources, you weren’t able to get to one on the efficiency set, and then also being able to pattern, recognize and discern which things represent a risk

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Vipul Vyas: in the scalable way. So that that’s not in the marketing world, obviously. But that gives you a sense of of kind of what what’s going on in marketing. I think it’s a little bit more

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Vipul Vyas: direct in that did the language and the words and the message you created drive more of the activity. You wanted more of the behavior you wanted

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Vipul Vyas: than before. So are you not just creating language faster, generating, content, faster. But are you generating? Better content that’s performing?

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Vipul Vyas: in the way that you want it to perform.

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[email protected]: And you know this is a topic that we discuss with clients all the time. But for the listeners, you know, Prisado is a very good example of a technology which provides both. We, we do provide more

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[email protected]: effective language generating an incremental amount of conversions. And we, you know, constantly aspire to be a net time saver

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[email protected]: for the marketing teams that we work with.

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[email protected]: We on the prior episode that we had a very

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[email protected]: interesting conversation around

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[email protected]: Generative AI’s role in augmenting jobs in the workplace. And we discuss the Goldman report saying that about 300 million jobs are going to be displaced by the end of this decade.

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[email protected]: What? What’s your take on Goldman’s findings and the potential for generative AI to either pivot some people’s jobs in the workplace or potentially replace them.

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Vipul Vyas: there will be dislocation. of different degrees.

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Vipul Vyas: and it and that transition change that any new technology and the disruption it creates is typically

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Vipul Vyas: There’s some discomfort associated with that.

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Vipul Vyas: Now you can do that smoothly. relatively, smoothly, over a long arc of time that can be absorbed by society and just human beings and their ability to adapt

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Vipul Vyas: And so if you look at

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Vipul Vyas: the Us labor force in the 18 nineties, early, 19 hundreds 80

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Vipul Vyas: percent of folks were employed in the agrarian space. You know, we farm farmer farm related occupations. And today it’s 2, I mean, very few people know a farmer.

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Vipul Vyas: so 2 of the population produces a food for the 98 of the people who aren’t in that space. when before, it was almost not quite the inverse but close.

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Vipul Vyas: you know. Pretty much everyone was involved in food production. And so that happened, if you look at graphs of how that transition occurred. It was slowly and linearly.

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Vipul Vyas: fairly, you know, steadily over the course of a century And so we absorb that relatively well.

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Vipul Vyas: The dislocation of increased urbanization and the implications of people getting off the farms. was managed in a way that didn’t create this much social strife. There is some, of course you know the the the sort of tale of the family farm and the, you know aggregation of agricultural and fewer hands. There’s no issues that people are concerned about there, but in general, from a social dislocation perspective, it was relatively

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Vipul Vyas: well absorbed. If you look at manufacturing in contrast that really started decline in the late sixties and seventies.

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Vipul Vyas: And there’s some specific reasons as to why people theorize that happened. the way it did. you saw a precipitous decline from, I think, in 27 ish, maybe a little over 30 of the labor force employed in manufacturing, and now close to at least in the 7% range today.

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Vipul Vyas: it may even have drift a little bit lower.

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Vipul Vyas: More recently. So that happened in the course of less than 50 years, and really accelerated in couple of phases the eighties, and then the 2 thousands. And it happened fast.

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Vipul Vyas: and that’s the you know what you have as a result of the rust belt. You know the cities that were impacted like Detroit.

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Vipul Vyas: and that didn’t happen smoothly. And that doesn’t mean that that can’t be mitigated.

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Vipul Vyas: if you look at Germany and Japan.

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Vipul Vyas: they actually really worked hard to make sure their manufacturing bases were at least somewhat secure and and tempered against some of the dislocation that was occurring, the Us. Being the manufacturing powerhouse coming out of World War Ii did not feel such

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Vipul Vyas: protection or protection, or it’s such mindfulness of that was necessary. We kind of took it. As for granted that we were that manufacturing powerhouse, and so

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Vipul Vyas: That decline was never buffered. So I say that to

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Vipul Vyas: point to the fact that AI probably will create this location. But it can be managed just like in the past. We’ve.

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Vipul Vyas: you know, there are examples of where forces that can lead to a severe dislocation can be mitigated. You just have to understand the threat, understand?

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Vipul Vyas: the so social issues it can create and then

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Vipul Vyas: make sure to invest to mitigate them.

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[email protected]: So I think that’s a it’s a good segue into it. Another part of your career.

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[email protected]: you are an adjunct professor

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[email protected]: at University of San Francisco. focusing on emerging technologies.

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[email protected]: What’s what’s the discourse in your classroom with your students? What are they? What’s top of mind for them as they contemplate entering or re-entering the workforce?

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[email protected]: And what What are some of the the the debates that you have among your students.

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Vipul Vyas: I think many of them want to understand, you know.

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Vipul Vyas: to the spirit of your last question, what’s the job market going to be for them? What’s it gonna look like? How’s it going to be different than when they first contemplated going to school? Because things change pretty rapidly in the public, you know Psyche and Zeitgeist

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Vipul Vyas: as of September 2022, when Chat Gpt emerged on the scene.

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Vipul Vyas: So a lot of them are, are thinking about. What are the implications for them personally?

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Vipul Vyas: I think this is one of those technologies that

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Vipul Vyas: will.

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Vipul Vyas: Our Ceos alluded to have this sort of hype cycle in the short term.

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Vipul Vyas: and then have more profound effects over the long term. you know. Travel agents that get put out of business overnight in the nineties. With the emergence of the Internet. there was sort of a sputtering along for a while until

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Vipul Vyas: it just didn’t make sense anymore. right? And I think a lot of

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Vipul Vyas: industries that are going to be disrupted by generative AI. It’s not going to happen all of a sudden. It’ll be slow. And then all of a sudden.

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Vipul Vyas: so I I think the real discussion is, how do people position themselves? Well.

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Vipul Vyas: to take advantage of the technology versus potentially get run over by it.

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Vipul Vyas: and I think that just as in manufacturing, which where automation actually had a huge impact on the rate of employment. If you could run the machines, you had a job

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Vipul Vyas: if you were the machine. less likely so and so there’s gonna be the need for human augmentation for at least some period of time into the foreseeable future. And so people who can

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Vipul Vyas: get the machine to do what we need to do.

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Vipul Vyas: And actually, it’s more going to be about

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Vipul Vyas: framing the problem. So people are going to be moving from production

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Vipul Vyas: to direction in terms of they’re going to be directors versus actors, if you will.

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Vipul Vyas: movie making analogy perspective. So instead of being the orchestrator, the actual final a leg of work, they’re going to be saying, this is the problem I want to solve.

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Vipul Vyas: This is how we want to solve it and then evaluating the solution. And so I think that is going to be a big change in people’s skills, that it’s going to be about defining problems.

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Vipul Vyas: well, in an articulate manner

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Vipul Vyas: versus the brute force solution that maybe where they’ve had focused in the past.

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[email protected]: I think that’s correct, and

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[email protected]: I’m observing that to in market, when I speak to clients. We, you know, at at Versato we’ve made a a push to to make part of our product product, offering more self-service, less reliant on client first party data.

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[email protected]: and I even heard a couple of our clients refer to as Prasado as an extra member of the creative team.

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[email protected]: And I really do think that the the dynamic that we see at play

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[email protected]: with enterprises who are implementing this technology effectively

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[email protected]: and efficiently.

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[email protected]: It’s not necessarily replacing human beings today.

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[email protected]: but rather helping undo riders block

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[email protected]: or help alleviate the blank page problem.

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[email protected]: And then when you take that and supplement it with the macroeconomic data that Prisado provides around hundreds of millions of consumer interactions.

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[email protected]: That’s where you add a statistical element to

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[email protected]: human intuition.

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[email protected]: So in your observations. companies that are getting this right today. what are they doing. and what is your advice to an executive who’s contemplating making their first investment into generative? AI for the enterprise?

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Vipul Vyas: It’s an interesting. It’s a tough question, because there’s

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Vipul Vyas: in this marketplace a few things are happening.

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Vipul Vyas: One, the core technology providers, such as Open AI, which is got a significant amount of funding for Microsoft, so it almost sort of commingled entities.

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Vipul Vyas: obviously came on the scene with Chat Gpt. several months ago, almost

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Vipul Vyas: a little bit over a half a year ago, I suppose? that’s now freely available to everyone.

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Vipul Vyas: And the core technology is also available. So you have as a function of that.

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Vipul Vyas: the proliferation of dozens.

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Vipul Vyas: probably more like hundreds of small companies that are all building point solutions on top of the core technology. Because now the barrier to entry.

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Vipul Vyas: to be innovative, to create something.

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Vipul Vyas: is much lowered because someone’s taking the hit on that big development effort, the big training model development transform all development machine learning efforts, all that big lyft. Someone else took

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Vipul Vyas: And now other people can leverage it to get in the market very quickly, and so they are. And so it’s almost like a

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Vipul Vyas: Brush fire came through. And now there’s a meadow full of flowers, just a lot of them to choose from.

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Vipul Vyas: But I think in terms of executives picking

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Vipul Vyas: the solutions that make sense.

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Vipul Vyas: The generalist

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Vipul Vyas: technologies are not going to solve specific business problems because they’re focused on being good at being general.

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Vipul Vyas: at offering a generic capability.

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Vipul Vyas: And they want ecosystems to point solutions because it helps them cheaply. Figure out what’s relevant in the market. Other people can go off and explore what use cases are

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Vipul Vyas: use or pertinent and

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Vipul Vyas: do all that heavy lifting for them.

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Vipul Vyas: and they can sit back. You know it’s the the whole gold rush analogy of

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Vipul Vyas: the people who supplied the pick. Axes were the ones that made the money, not the miners, necessarily themselves. And so I think the general technologies will still focus on the general technology, general tech, because there’s so much still to do there. There’s so much green field still the

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Vipul Vyas: to conquer and so point solutions will be the things that emerge that people have to evaluate because they’re focused on specific problems by their nature point solutions are attempting to solve specific issues or problems or challenges.

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Vipul Vyas: And so then it’s a matter of what point solutions are the right ones to pick. And so ones that actually are intimately familiar with the business problem that you’re trying to solve to some level of expertise of the processor space and that are focused on moving specific kpis because the end of the day you’re not buying generative. AI, you’re buying a business outcome.

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Vipul Vyas: It’s ideally what you’re buying. You’re buying a result.

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Vipul Vyas: It’s similar to uiux. Does this seamlessly flow into existing or adjacent processes, such that it’s not hyper disruptive to existing.

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Vipul Vyas: Work flows such that it’s hard to absorb That may change slowly over time. But initially, you want to fit into in a construct, people can get their head around so that the the technology can actually be successfully absorbed. So again, one is ui ux. 2 is a workflow integration. 3 is reporting. And that’s really the way that the vendor justifies their invoice. But it’s also a way that you understand. That is this solution actually moving

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Vipul Vyas: And so reporting and robustness of reporting and the insights you can give are gonna be big, and those are solutions specific, not general or generic. You know that that typically won’t come from a generic provider. And on the fourth thing is that they’ve extended the technology. So in this case they’ve extended language models.

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Vipul Vyas: which one is it more likely going to be to to disambiguate with me, too? So that to extend the core technology to address the specific problem, such as an example, you know, in the case of

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Vipul Vyas: you know, sort of set of characteristics I I went through is just based on historically or the last 20 years. Seeing similar trends play out where a general technology came on the scene. And then a bunch of point solutions emerged.

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[email protected]: It’s very reminiscent vipple if you wind the clock back about 1015 years.

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[email protected]: Large enterprises were either an sap shop or an oracle shop, both of which had Hr. Functionality, finance, functionality, procurement.

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[email protected]: And then, with the advent of software as a service and cloud providers, you had what was referred to back in the day as best of breed.

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[email protected]: and you have the core erp that would api into cloud solutions which back in 2,008, 2,010,

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[email protected]: that that makes sense. Well, that I know we’ve we’ve covered a lot of ground today and thank you. You’ve been a tremendous guest. I have one final question for you

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[email protected]: I do think that we are looking at another moment with the advancement of generative AI that will have the ability to transform the way we work.

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[email protected]: And I appreciate that all of the the examples that you’ve given. you know you’ve you’ve had a front row seat

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[email protected]: and finally the the wealth of knowledge you’ve been sharing with Prisado’s clients. Now, our listeners will be able to benefit from So Vit bull, thank you very much. for joining the podcast again. This was vipel viaas. He is senior vice President of go to market strategy at Prisato.

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Vipul Vyas: thanks, Alex. I’ll I’ll not let you stop me there. I’ll say 2 more quick things in terms of one of the things that buffered manufacturing decline and job creation was actually the rise of the It sector.

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Vipul Vyas: which actually created jobs that people that no longer going to manufacturing can now assume to some degree. So that was a a safety net of some degree. So we’ll need something like that. And the second is, you know, another big technology trend

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Vipul Vyas: funny enough in this generally, I boom, but I’ll leave it at that. thank you for having me. I I definitely appreciate it.

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[email protected]: Sectors within technology that we left unattended to. So I’m glad that we we got him in up a bit. But thanks again, first of many, hopefully. And I’m sure the listeners are really gonna appreciate your insight.