Comment by janalsncm
It’s a bit amusing that so much ink has been spilled over what the definition of an “AI agent” is.
I don’t care. I care what your software can do. I don’t care if it’s called AI or machine learning or black magic. I care if it can accomplish a task reliably so that I don’t have to do it myself or pay someone to do it.
We had the same argument about 3 years ago when everyone started calling things “AI”. They use LLMs to generate text. Usually they have outsourced all of the interesting technical work to a handful of providers backed by big Web 2.0 companies.
>I don’t care.
The particular problem with poorly defined definitions is they cause a lot of spilled ink later on.
For example the term AGI. Or, even deeper, the definition of intelligence, gets debated again and again with all the goal post dragging one expects these days.
Even breaking out simple categories can help like
Type I agent: Script driven, uses LLM for intelligent actions.
Type II agent: LLM driven, uses scripts and tools. May still need human input.
Type III agent: Builds a time machine to kill John Connor.