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Category: Complex Systems
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“The rapid rise of compound AI systems (a.k.a., AI agents) is reshaping the labor market, raising concerns about job displacement, diminished human agency, and overreliance on automation,” said “Future of Work with AI Agents,” a recently published paper by researchers from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the Digital Economy Lab. “Yet, we lack…
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In May of 2025, Linux Foundation Research, the Eclipse Foundation, and the open source community GOSIM jointly organized the Open Source AI Strategy Forum in Paris. The Forum aimed to address the critical challenges facing collaboration in open source AI with global experts from industry, academia, open source communities, and foundations. Two months later they published…
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Artificial intelligence first came to light in the mid-1950s as a promising new academic discipline that aimed to develop intelligent machines capable of handling human-like tasks like natural language and playing chess. AI became one of the most exciting areas in computer sciences in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, but after years of unfulfilled promises…
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The July 26 issue of The Economist included a special focus on “The Economics of Superintelligence” with three articles on the subject. “For most of history the safest prediction has been that things will continue much as they are,” said the lead article. “But sometimes the future is unrecognisable. The tech bosses of Silicon Valley say humanity…
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“Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI,” said “The State of AI — How organizations are rewiring to capture value,” a report published by Quantum Black, McKinsey’s AI unit, in March of 2025. The report noted that organizations are taking steps to drive gen AI’s…
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In December of 2024, the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) released “5 Trends for 2025” a report that examined how business leaders can empower people to innovate in the age of AI without putting the business at risk. “2024 was a year of letting go,” said the report in its Introduction. “As a combination…
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About three years ago I started following and writing about Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), chatbots, and related topics. Then a few months ago I started hearing about agentic AI, and since then I’ve been trying to better understand what agentic AI is all about. I asked Babson College professor Tom Davenport, a prolific…
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What is Agentic AI? There are multiple answers to this question, not surprisingly since we’re still in the early stages of this complex technology. Wikipedia emphasizes the autonomous nature of agentic AI in its definition: Agentic AI is “a class of artificial intelligence that focuses on autonomous systems that can make decisions and perform tasks…
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Wikipedia defines Agentic AI as “a class of artificial intelligence that focuses on autonomous systems that can make decisions and perform tasks without human intervention.” A recent IBM website, “What is Agentic AI,” adds that: “Agentic systems provide the flexibility of LLMs, which can generate responses or actions based on nuanced, context-dependent understanding, with the…
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Hard Fork is a weekly podcast from the NY Times that examines the impact of the latest developments in technology on the economy and society. The podcast is hosted by Kevin Roose, NY Times technology journalist, and Casey Newton, founder of the Platformer newsletter. A few weeks ago the podcast discussed Is AI a ‘Normal'…