MIT Technology Review January 11, 2025
The hottest topic in AI is only just getting started.
Agents are the hottest thing in tech right now. Top firms from Google DeepMind to OpenAI to Anthropic are racing to augment large language models with the ability to carry out tasks by themselves. Known as agentic AI in industry jargon, such systems have fast become the new target of Silicon Valley buzz. Everyone from Nvidia to Salesforce is talking about how they are going to upend the industry.
“We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and materially change the output of companies,” Sam Altman claimed in a blog post last week.
In the broadest sense, an agent is a software...
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