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Nov 2023
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Jason Calacanis
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Today’s show:

Induced AI CEO Aryan Sharma joins Jason to discuss the motivation behind Induced AI (3:20), how the product is being integrated into real-world applications (16:42), strategies for mitigating bad actors (32:16), and more!

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Time stamps:

(0:00) Induced AI CEO Aryan Sharma joins Jason

(3:20) The motivation behind Induced AI

(10:06) Miro - Sign up for a free account at https://miro.com/startups

(11:24) The role of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and integration of LLMs

(16:42) Aryan demos Induced AI’s WorkFlow

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(29:31) The impact on business processing outsourcing

(32:16) Strategies for mitigating bad actors

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(44:17) Journey to Induced AI

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Links:

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/shi17a/shi17a.pdfhttps://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/process-automation/what-is-rpa.html

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Check out: https://www.induced.ai/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryan-sharma-2628aba2/

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