Matt Wolfe argues AI agents will be autonomous and always-on, continuously pulling inputs from their environment and taking actions without waiting for human input. He compares them to how humans work, citing research from Andrew Ng and others on what makes next-generation agents fundamentally different from today's chatbots.
What's happening now is we are moving towards agents. And agents are going to be autonomous. They're going to be always on. They'll be always listening to inputs from the environment so you don't have to push things to it. It's always pulling information. And then once it pulls information, it actually takes an action. Instead of giving you some content to absorb and then take a decision, the agent will take action on its own. But that's not the end of it. What we actually figured out is this is something fascinating. The work that Andrew Ng and these other folks have been doing is think of these agents as being no different from you and I, from humans, right?
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