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S01E02 - The AIs Are Becoming People. Probably - When machines start feeling like mirrors
A hundred years ago, if something terrible happened on the other side of the world, there was a decent chance you'd never hear about it. Today you can learn about five disasters before breakfast. Ten if you're ambitious. You wake up. You check your phone. A political crisis. A market crash. A celebrity scandal. A climate catastrophe. A man explaining why pigeons are secretly government employees. And somehow all of this arrives before you've even brushed your teeth.
September 2026
With all due respect, the best agent framework out there is the next version of Hermes. Just kidding—I think the Hermes framework is among the top tier for on-premises deployment. Every agent framework has its own strengths, but when it comes to digital avatars, Hermes’s position is hard to challenge or replace. Hermes’s free model is a generous alternative to the Nous Portal, making it easy for anyone to take that first step.😉