Antje Barth from Amazon's AGI Labs discusses Nova Act, a new service for building reliable AI agents. She explores how they achieve over 90% reliability using reinforcement learning in 'web gyms', the shift towards 'normcore' agents for practical automation, and the future of AI as a digital co-worker.
Danielle from the Amazon AGI SF Lab introduces a new paradigm for agent development called "Useful General Intelligence" (UGI). Instead of focusing on making AI smarter than humans, UGI aims to build AI that augments human intelligence and agency. This talk explores the cognitive science principles behind this vision and introduces Nova Act, an agentic model and SDK designed to reliably interact with computer UIs, turning the browser into a programmable tool.