Writing a prompt for AI? That’s old school. It seems that soon enough, we may not even need to ask AI to do things for us. Digital assistants will be able to anticipate and deliver a need without the user asking it to, reported NYT.

Time to add the word “agentic” to your dictionary: Agentic describes the ability to take action or to choose what action to take. In social cognitive theory, it refers to humans taking control of their lives, and in the case of Agentic AI, it means taking control of task development and completion. The goal for both: complete autonomy.

It’s not reading your mind. The user would need to create a complex goal at the very beginning, and based on that, the so-called Agentic AI would generate and complete tasks automatically until that goal is achieved.

It seems members of the AI field are happy with this advancement. Humans.aisaid that the development of Agentic AI “herands a transformative era.” The chief executive of another (similarly named) startup, Humanic AI, predicts that “we now live in an agentic economy.”

Remember: This is all still just untested supposition and has not actually been developed or implemented yet. But that hasn’t stopped some startups, like Agentic.ai and Agentic Labs, from adding the term to their names to get ahead of the curve.

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