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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except AI is kinda already in everything from iphones to windows to google? Don't think that point holds well

Except has been pushed down into places where it does not make any sense just for the sake of riding the ai race. It’s like Clippy but integrated everywhere, eg in the chrome developer tools, nobody wanted it. On iPhone? I won’t be surprised if most users don’t use any generative ai feature at all. And other useful features were already inside the system but since they’re not “generative” they’re getting marketed as…

I agree about the general silliness of most of the "generative" features - I was only contesting that to me, there's a clear difference in the rate of institutional belief/backing and adoption

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

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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.

> It's like the hype of chatbot LLMs circa '21-23.

That’s funny, since I’m using a “chatbot LLM” right now in another window, writing code.

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