"For technology adopters looking for the next big thing, agentic AI is the future. At least, that's what the marketing pitches and tech industry T-shirts say. What makes an artificial intelligence product agentic depends on who's selling it. But the promise is usually that it's a step beyond today's generative AI chatbots. Chatbots, however useful, are all talk and no action. They can answer questions, retrieve and summarize information, write papers and generate images, music, video and lines of code."
"A new report Tuesday by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston Consulting Group describes agentic AI as a new class of systems that can plan, act, and learn on their own. They are not just tools to be operated or assistants waiting for instructions. Increasingly, they behave like autonomous teammates, capable of executing multistep processes and adapting as they go."
Interest in agentic AI has rapidly increased as companies position it as a step beyond generative chatbots by taking actions rather than only producing text. Generative chatbots rely on large language models that predict the next word and generate fluent responses, summaries, creative work and code, but typically stop after offering suggestions. Agentic systems are conceived to plan, act, learn, execute multistep processes, adapt during execution, and operate more like autonomous teammates. Major technology firms are pursuing agentic capabilities to enable proactive task execution, workflow automation, and continuous improvement through learning from outcomes.
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