EP 524: Agentic AI Done Right - How to avoid missing out or messing up.

In a special edition of the Everyday AI Show from the IBM Think Conference, host Jordan Wilson interviews Dr. Maryam Ashoori, Senior Director of Product Management at WatsonX, about the latest advancements in agentic AI. They discuss the challenges enterprises face when implementing AI agents, including responsible AI implementation, transparency, traceability, and cost optimization. Dr. Ashoori highlights new WatsonX features designed to address these challenges, focusing on building, deploying, and monitoring agents, with a particular emphasis on simplifying deployment and enhancing scalability and security. She advises business leaders to focus on the problems they are trying to solve rather than getting caught up in the technology itself, emphasizing the importance of understanding risks, establishing guidelines, and empowering their workforce to leverage AI effectively. The conversation also touches on how AI is changing the way developers and non-technical people work, leading to increased productivity and the opportunity to focus on higher-value tasks.