In 1966 Johnny Rivers had one of the biggest hits of his career. The song was "Secret Agent Man," the theme for the British TV show "Secret Man," and Rivers hit a decidedly Cold War note when he sang about "giving you a number and taking away your name." Well, the Berlin Wall may have come down and Nehru jackets may have gone out of style, but the Secret Agent theme song was brought back into service at Dreamforce, Salesforce's ( CRM ) annual get-together in San Francisco.
Related: Analysts revisit Dell, Super Micro stock price targets on AI capabilities The producer of customer-relations-management software for enterprise reworked the Sixties era tune to tout its Agentforce AI platform. "For the last, especially 10 years, we've been talking about the emergence of AI and how AI has been a critical part of our future," Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff said during his keynote address . "We want to be the first to welcome you into the future.
We want to future-proof you, not only in your careers, but your companies too." Agentforce, Benioff said, "has to be the biggest breakthrough that we have ever had in technology and, I think, it's the biggest breakthrough that I've seen in a long time in artificial intelligence." Salesforce, which Benioff co-founded in 1999, said Agentforce enables companies to scale their workforces on demand with a few clicks.
TheStreet/Shutterstock Salesforce announces Nvidia collaboration The platform’s AI agents can analyze data, make decisi.