Robyn Anderson breaks down four AI concepts creators confuse: large language models (the engine behind ChatGPT), agentic AI (systems that decide where to find information), automation (specialized bots passing tasks like a relay), and autonomous AI (Siri, Alexa, car systems that learn from you).
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What is automation? What is an LLM? What is agentic AI? What is autonomous AI? What do all of these things mean? There's so many complex words being thrown around along with all these tools that we're trying to learn. My name is Jam and I'm going to help simplify all of these terms for you. An LLM is simply the brains behind ChatGPT and Claude. An LLM is a large language model that has been trained on the entirety of the internet and a large amount of text. And so when you're using ChatGPT and Claude, you're using an LLM. Next is agentic AI. Agentic AI was a big thing that came out early 2025. And basically what it is, is AI that goes out and makes decisions on its own after you prompt it to get something done. For instance, if I wanted to go research the Minnesota Vikings, and the history of football, I can just tell my AI to go out and find that information, and I don't have to tell it where to go. It will on its own make decisions where to go find that research, and it'll come back to me and it'll prepare everything from PDFs to Word docs to entire websites. So you can use tools like Manus.im and the ChatGPT Agentic feature to try that out. What's an automation? An automation is basically like a bunch of chatbots lined up passing a baton to get one thing done. So you could think of that as Make.com or N8N or Lindy.com, and these are all website platforms where you can go set up your automation. So an example of that would be You post a blog and then that blog gets taken from, uh, your website to Perplexity to ChatGPT where it's rewritten as social media posts and then goes to your social platforms. So hands-free, completely automated. However, each little chatbot has its own prompt and instructions when it gets the baton. Finally is autonomous AI. And that's more like things, the AI inside your car, Siri, Alexa, and those types of AIs that are really learning from us and how they're interacting with us in our natural environment. Hopefully that helps. And remember, if you want to learn more about AI, give me a follow.
