How do you think Agentic AI will be used at Shell?
When you think about the current jobs at Shell, what tasks or complete job roles do you see Agentic AI helping to automate or help make more efficient with some human oversight?
What jobs at Shell do you think Agentic AI will have no effect on?
I'm building agents for process units and operations. They will basically automate a lot of repetitive tasks and make decision making faster by being able to pull information together quickly. They will not replace humans for a long time, it's quite difficult to make them useful we need to constrain the decision making with graphs or reinforcement learning with correct answers, that's not going to lead to creative systems, but it will be much more useful than RPA. RPA was a scam.
This is the best answer. I do hope for AI, AGI, and robotics to have a huge impact on humanity one day. We accept too many things in society like the 8 hour work day, expensive housing and healthcare, and ineffective use of taxes that I hope one day changes.
there are hundreds in AI teams in the US
not outsourced to bangalore yet. to say nothing of the few dozen more in UK and NL
how much work do you really think is based on collecting data and reporting that isn’t already on the chopping block?
agent is a buzzword. all it really means is you can schedule a job which does a small number of atomic steps. except now it’s using an LLM instead of the dozens of BI tools we have. integration is easier and SaaS is less needed, there is no job replacement in the near term.
you would have to topple the entire of how companies work and take it back to first principles for agents to take jobs. for example, no need for email or meetings or plannings, only the need to do atomic tasks which produce value directly. nobody can tell you what that even looks like for energy and agents couldn’t handle it yet anyway. both literally and legally. save money and upskill but don’t panic.
Look at the success of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) for an example of how impactful agentic AI will be. Agentic AI will struggle for most of the same reasons as RPA. It will be useful, but it will not change the world as the hype would have you believe. Few if any jobs at shell (or anywhere else) will be impacted by it. Another example, how jobs have been eliminated by those wonderful chatbots everyone has? Zero. They are useless, but look good on someone's GPA.
Internally developed out of Bangalore lol, good luck.
Is there agentic work in she’ll in what domain ? Does she’ll have the capability and AI folks to do it ? If they contract out this will never work it needs to be internal development
I think people will throw money at research projects that promise to use it, but they will likely confirm the bias of whoever the sponsor that set the target answer.
Then they will use it to justify the business decision that they were planning in the first place. It will be used to obfuscate and will be equal to an electronic yes-man disguised as scientific support. In short just like they used machine learning in unconventionals/shales.
agents don’t work for anything at the moment, no need to jump
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