The entire world is trying to figure out how to automate knowledge work in complex organizations to unlock an agent and robot economy estimated to be worth on the order of tens of trillions of dollars.
Most AI deployments are built on search systems. Search is the wrong data model for AI agents. You aren’t going to go to work, sit in front of a computer, and search for answers. Information complexity is accelerating far beyond biological reasoning capacity of knowledge workers. You won’t know what to search for. When you do know what to search for, LLMs built on search systems (RAG) fail because when the LLM can’t find the answer explicitly indexed in the data, the RAG agent makes up the answer. RAG agents are limited by their local reasoning, analgous to an employee that lies half the time and has to be taught the same thing over and over again.
LLMs are the interface for agents, but to be truly useful in organizational contexts, these agents need brains and those brains need to have global reasoning capacity, persistent memory, an ability to discover hidden relationships, perceive the world in nuanced ways, and be grounded in human judgment, expertise, and values.
In the near future, you won’t search for answers, you’ll tell an agent or robot an objective and it will reason, simulate, plan, decide, act, measure effectiveness, and develop its own experience by learning continuously from shortfalls between reality and execution. The machine’s job will not be relegated to predicting the next token in a distribution of words or pixels but rather it will predict the next state of the environment at superhuman speed and scale.
Accrete builds digital brains to power autonomous enterprises. We call these digital brains Knowledge Engines. Knowledge Engines bridge the gap to superintelligence by solving the problems of persistent memory, trust, and world perception. Knowledge Engines unify legacy software, siloed data, and human judgment and expertise into “one pane of glass.” Knowledge Engines are an organization’s cognitive substrate for predictive, autonomous decision systems.
Today, Knowledge Engines power Expert AI Agents for military and enterprise use cases. Tomorrow, they’ll power Robots and eventually the convergence of biological and machine intelligence.
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