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6 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2025
Will Grannis says regulated industries have long documented processes, giving them a head start with agents.
“in, uh, regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, public sector, those organizations for many years have been highly documented, uh, in terms of their business process and workflow”
2025
According to Grannis, AI helped states such as Wisconsin cut unemployment claim processing from weeks to hours or days.
“AI has enabled interactions and the processing of claims, for example, to go from, you know, weeks to, uh, hours or days”
2025
Will Grannis says AI models can generate ad hoc 'ephemeral' user interfaces, making fixed application interfaces less important.
“we call them like ephemeral apps or ephemeral UI, and that means that the AI becomes the UI and that the application UI is less important.”
2025
Computer-use capabilities let AI interact with a screen directly, reducing the need to build APIs in front of data, per Will Grannis.
“We even now have computer use, which can bypass some of the, you know, need to construct APIs in front of data.”
Undated
Will Grannis founded Google Public Sector and still serves on its board.
“as, uh, you know, the founder of Google Public Sector and, uh, a board member still, uh, which I'm very proud of,”
Undated
Will Grannis cites spreadsheet formulas as an early form of task automation preceding agents.
“We have been running formulas for many years to try to automate the calculation of certain numbers and to automate a task of calculation.”
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