The article discusses the ambiguity surrounding the term "AI agent," which is heavily used in tech yet poorly defined, even amidst professionals at venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz. A3 VC partners attempted to clarify the term in a podcast but highlighted that most classifications are overly simplistic, often equating AI agents to advanced prompts over data sets. There's excitement in the venture capital sector for AI, with predictions that many white-collar jobs will incorporate AI agents, yet achieving true artificial general intelligence (AGI) remains unfulfilled as current technologies fall short.
"The simplest thing that I've heard being called an agent is basically just a clever prompt on top of some kind of knowledge base," said Appenzeller.
"To really do that, their AI software would have to be something close to AGI," Appenzeller says, indicating the current limitations of existing AI.
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