As AIs start to act more like agents, capable of executing on goals autonomously, we will see more automation of tasks, but that is still a work in progress. For example, I gave an early form of AI agent (with the cute but slightly worrying name of BabyAGI) the goal of writing the best closing sentence to this paragraph on the future of agents. It lost its way a bit in the process, developing a twenty-one-step plan for solving the problem of writing a single sentence (with steps like “Explore methods to ensure AI agents are used responsibly to improve economic decision-making”) and going down
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