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AI agents may soon surpass people as primary application users

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Re: AI agents may soon surpass people as primary application users

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Post by ehnto »

accrual wrote: post #6

Cyberpunk 2077 becomes reality in 2024

It wasn't until 2044 that the Black Wall was implemented to separate the rogue AIs from the corporate nets. As is often postulated though, how would a network of rogue AIs power themselves? LLMs being quite energy intensive, it's impossible to know what technology would actually create AGI and if that will as well be energy intensive, but basically all intelligence to date including humans have proven to be quite demanding in resources.

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Post by jsemrau »

The programmable web is a thing for a long time and I have spent a large portion of my career building infrastructure in that space. Agents are another iteration of digital transformation of services and I am all in for it. That doesn't mean it will replace humans as users. Agents will just operate on another entry point. Maybe compare it to non-lit tunnels for autonomous driving without passengers.

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Post by paul7986 »

My guess is 2026 to 2030...

- ChatGPT releases a phone where the Lock Screen UI is like a FaceTime call with ur AI agent (can skin ur agent /assistant to however u want). H.E.R. The movie in ur pocket who does everything for u

- All business will have their own agents and ur personal assistant / agent interfaces with them to get things done for you. I guess your agent could interface with your friends agent when they're not available.

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Post by ventoffreshair »

AI Agents will be the death of the AI hype. Nobody knows what is a agent. Is running a scraping script an agent? Is something that constructs code on itself based on plain english requirement an agent?

What comes aftet agent? Nobody knows. It's like the hype of chatbot LLMs circa '21-23.

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Post by babyent »

simonw wrote: post #7

The Accenture report this is based on looks like science fiction to me. https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/technology/technolo... (links to a PDF which is horrible to read on mobile, I guess Accenture don't think any of their target audience spend work time away from a laptop) It talks about "trust" a LOT, which indicates they expect a robust solution to LLM security and reliability (see prompt injection) soon.…

Remember when blockchain was going to be used in everything?

Now we have AI + the ever favorite avatars.

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Post by numbsafari »

simonw wrote: post #7

The Accenture report this is based on looks like science fiction to me. https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/technology/technolo... (links to a PDF which is horrible to read on mobile, I guess Accenture don't think any of their target audience spend work time away from a laptop) It talks about "trust" a LOT, which indicates they expect a robust solution to LLM security and reliability (see prompt injection) soon.…

They have a lot of faith in billable hours.

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Post by bberenberg »

great_psy wrote: post #10

We focused so much on how that we didn’t stop to ask why. We already have an interface for agents, we call that an API. Why do we need to have AI click buttons, that eventually call an API. Just skip the middle layer and go straight to an API that does everything that system is capable of doing.

I think everyone agrees with you. The issue is who is building API first interfaces? The value an agent provides here is that it moves control from the publisher to the consumer (in the technical sense).

“Twitter doesn’t want to let me access via an API? That’s fine, my browser/agent will automatically automate what I want it to do for me in the UI.” Is a major shift in how we interface with other services.

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Post by ants_everywhere »

great_psy wrote: post #10

We focused so much on how that we didn’t stop to ask why. We already have an interface for agents, we call that an API. Why do we need to have AI click buttons, that eventually call an API. Just skip the middle layer and go straight to an API that does everything that system is capable of doing.

I would think that a lot of apis are designed for human users and we may need new apis designed for a usage patterns more natural to bots.

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Post by drusepth »

ehnto wrote: post #11
accrual wrote: post #6

Cyberpunk 2077 becomes reality in 2024

It wasn't until 2044 that the Black Wall was implemented to separate the rogue AIs from the corporate nets. As is often postulated though, how would a network of rogue AIs power themselves? LLMs being quite energy intensive, it's impossible to know what technology would actually create AGI and if that will as well be energy intensive, but basically all intelligence to date including humans have proven to be quite dem…

> As is often postulated though, how would a network of rogue AIs power themselves?

Smaller and smaller models are reaching higher and higher benchmarks; the 35B I can run on consumer hardware today is better than a 605B from years ago. I bet there are also advancements reducing the power usage at each model size.

I think the answer boils down to the same answer as any other rogue software "roaming" the internet: hacked consumer devices.

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