GenAI Workers: Hirable AI
After a year and a half of GenAI boom, one thing is clear: businesses are not ready to adopt it. Despite billions spent on PoC, the actual deployments are rare and in non-critical paths, such as marketing. Why is that?
There are multiple reasons for slow adoption. Still the gap between the technical advances of models and OSS AI infrastructure around them and actual business use is glaring. Perhaps the problem is not entirely technical?
Let us look at the requirements for AI to satisfy before it could be deployed by a business.
- performant — doing the work efficiently and correctly
- reliable and safe — not harming customers, colleagues, employers
- helpful — helping the business achieve its goals
- useful — providing value to customers
- effective — generating more value than it requires to run, hopefully much more
Now if we step back, this is a description of a good worker, and a hirable employee. What a business actually needs is a Generative AI Worker, or GenAI Worker for short. A hirable GenAI Worker.
A hirable GenAI Worker will have an API to integrate it into the company HR systems and processes. A company is already setup to ensure employees are effective and reliable, that they do not leak IP, that they work together and so on.
Instead of delving into LLM and Compound AI Systems concepts, a business can grok a worker. The worker is doing a job that a business needs to do in a way they both understand it, with a review process and a set of constraints and utilities as above that were in place for a millennia.
As AI engineers, we understand that a worker is in fact a multi-agent system with multiple other components, such as storage, memory, attention, values, etc.
Furthermore, GenAI workers will need to be hirable to get jobs and get jobs done. There will emerge AI worker marketplaces, AI HR agencies, etc. In fact, the whole HR industry will have to adapt to the rise of the hirable GenAI Workers.
The term Hirable AI was coined at LoomHR, a pioneering startup building both GenAI workers and a marketplace for them, as well as the processes to integrate them into the existing human economy and HR. (I am an advisor to LoomHR.)
GenAI Workers Summit is the first ever conference focusing on the vision of GenAI Workers as a way to accelerate actual adoption of AI in industry:
Join us on June 21 in the Bay Area to build the AI economy of the future. This is the actual future of work. We’ll have two tracks, on the industrial adoption of hirable GenAI workers and on the technology that is required to build, find, hire, and manage high-quality GenAI workers.
