"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. AI agents, by contrast, are supposed to be able to take actions on a person's behalf."
"A new report Tuesday by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston Consulting Group, who surveyed more than 2,000 business executives around the world, 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," says the MIT Sloan Management Review report. "Increasingly, they behave like autonomous teammates, capable of executing multistep processes and adapting as they go.""
"AI chatbots - such as the original ChatGPT that debuted three years ago this month - rely on systems called large language models that predict the next word in a sentence based on the huge trove of human writings they've been trained on. They can sound remarkably human, especially when given a voice, but are effectively performing a kind of word completion."
Agentic AI denotes systems that can plan, act, and learn autonomously, executing multistep processes and adapting while operating. Unlike generative chatbots that predict next words and perform content generation, agentic systems can take actions on behalf of users. Chatbots can answer questions, retrieve and summarize information, write papers and generate images, music, video and code, but do not act. More than 2,000 business executives worldwide were surveyed and agentic AI was described as a new class of systems that behave like autonomous teammates. Major technology companies are developing agentic capabilities and public interest has surged.
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