@JessTheUnstill imagine having an executive assistant (that has no morals).

So, you give it access to your calendar so it can accept/reject meetings (if you’re very lucky, it will do this based on criteria you give it)

And then you need to travel, so you also give it access to your various rewards programs and credit card so it can book your travel and hotel and everything. (If you’re exceptionally lucky, it doesn’t use that access to do some personal shopping. Because no morals)

@JessTheUnstill "Normal AI" these days is a chatbot-like thing which will answer questions and write code. It may or may not be able to do web searches to enhance what it 'knows' but it doesn't "do" anything.

"Agentic AI" is when you're so far down the AI psychosis trail that you hook up the chatbot to other software that actually does things. Like command line tools. curl. rm. Whatever you want it to do. Trade stocks. Break up with your partner. Sign contracts.

It's all fine.

@JessTheUnstill

Our language around AI is insufficient for our needs.

AIUI Agentic AI = genAI which provides us with AI slop.

Then there is using computers to search for correlations in massive complex databases - this also get called AI. But is AIUI can be very useful. Both to medical researchers and Google in surveillance capitalism.

@JessTheUnstill It's the astonishing innovation of *running a thing in a loop and letting it use other software* 🤯🤡

@JessTheUnstill It's the astonishing innovation of *running a thing in a loop and letting it use other software* 🤯🤡