flâneur

Cognizant’s CTO of AI on how his lab is crafting generative AI agents for companies

emergingtechbrew.com · 1,727 words · saved by 1 readers

Tech Brew caught up with Babak Hodjat, Cognizant’s CTO of AI, who’s credited with helping to invent the NLP tech that paved the way for Siri, about what his new San Francisco-based lab is up to and why he thinks multi-agent architecture could be the next cloud revolution for enterprise. This conversation, the second of two parts, has been edited for length and clarity. (Part one is here.) It feels like we’re hearing more and more about agents, especially in the past few months. What do you think the future is there? Well, first, let’s level-set on what an agent is. If you consider an agent to be a large language model wrapper around some functionality or some data, or some microservice or API, then that transition to an agent-based architecture is already kind of happening without us even realizing it. For us at Cognizant, we have a very large intranet called One Cognizant. All the apps and everything is there. It’s very, very useful. We all use it internally. And so immediately after

Babak Hodjat By Patrick Kulp June 26, 2024 • 8 min read TOPICS: AI / AI Core Technology / AI Agents Tech Brew caught up with Babak Hodjat, Cognizant’s CTO of AI, who’s credited with helping to invent the NLP tech that paved the way for Siri, about what his new San Francisco-based lab is up to and why he thinks multi-agent architecture could be the next cloud revolution for enterprise. This conversation, the second of two parts, has been edited for length and clarity. (Part one is here .) It feels like we’re hearing more and more about agents , especially in the past few months. What do you thi

saved by

related reading