AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do?
2 months, 2 weeks ago

AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do?

Wired  

Should I set up a personal AI agent to help with my daily tasks? After searching for a bit, I came back convinced you’re likely already using AI agents every single day. The idea of AI agents, or God-forbid “agentic AI,” is the current buzzword du jour for every tech leader who’s trying to hype their recent investments. “But, they're not at all optimized for human-design issues.” She focuses on how AI agents are still easily tricked or resort to biased assumptions, despite improvements to the underlying models. To better understand other potential pitfalls for personal AI agents, let’s break the nebulous term into two distinct categories: those that feed you and those that represent you.

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Roles for AI agents, rethinking EV charging and ransomware threats
6 days, 16 hours ago

Roles for AI agents, rethinking EV charging and ransomware threats

Hindustan Times  

Days after I analysed the Agentic AI developments, Microsoft has made its biggest and most serious pitch yet. Major technology firms are rapidly adopting "agentic AI" – I’d say think of these as systems with human-like intelligence designed to work autonomously towards specific goals. A question I’ve repeatedly asked industry experts is — what happens to humans working the roles …

Man vs Machine | The age of the AI agents
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Man vs Machine | The age of the AI agents

India Today  

The disruption that DeepSeek’s emergence has caused in the field of Generative Artificial Intelligence has re-energised the discussion on ‘Sovereign AI’. The term broadly refers to a nation’s ability to create its own AI infrastructure, including foundational large language models such as DeepSeek-R1, developed by a Chinese startup at a much lower cost than OpenAI’s industry-leading GPT-4the building blocks of …

Cost of intelligence: Can AI sustain itself?
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Cost of intelligence: Can AI sustain itself?

New Indian Express  

Artificial intelligence firms are grappling with significant financial challenges despite rapid growth. With projected losses of $5 billion in 2024 against revenues of $3.7 billion, the company is struggling to sustain the high costs of running advanced AI models while maintaining user accessibility. This highlights a broader issue in the AI industry: balancing innovation, scalability and profitability in a sector …

The rise of ‘agentic AI’: Why data scientists and software developers should be worried
3 weeks, 3 days ago

The rise of ‘agentic AI’: Why data scientists and software developers should be worried

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: Artificial intelligence, or AI, won’t take away your job. AI agents, often referred to as ‘Agentic AI’ systems, are models capable of making decisions and taking actions to achieve specific goals without human intervention, making them truly autonomous. Unlike large language model-based chatbots, agentic AI integrates with business software such as customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning systems …

AI agents are everywhere…and nowhere
1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI agents are everywhere…and nowhere

Live Mint  

MENLO PARK, Calif.—Artificial intelligence agents, the technology that can perform tasks on behalf of humans, are here. Twenty-nine percent of attendees at the summit said cybersecurity and data privacy is their primary concern around using AI agents. For OpenAI, it’s “too early" for the company to know exactly how customers are using its Operator AI agent, said Srinivas Narayanan, vice …

A Google GenAI expert weighs in on why companies are clamouring for AI agents
2 months, 1 week ago

A Google GenAI expert weighs in on why companies are clamouring for AI agents

Live Mint  

Google, doubling down on artificial intelligence to fuel revenue growth, is witnessing increased enterprise interest in agentic workflows, according to Oliver Parker, vice president of global Generative AI go-to-market at Google Cloud. Read this | AI and GenAI are transforming robotics: ABB robotics global head Google’s newly launched AgentSpace platform enables businesses to create AI-powered workflows that integrate seamlessly into …

AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines
3 months, 1 week ago

AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines

Wired  

In 2025, it will be commonplace to talk with a personal AI agent that knows your schedule, your circle of friends, the places you go. New AI agents will have far greater power to subtly direct what we buy, where we go, and what we read. AI agents are designed to make us forget their true allegiance as they whisper …

DeepMind boss says human-level AI is just a few years away
1 year, 10 months ago

DeepMind boss says human-level AI is just a few years away

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The head of Google’s artificial intelligence division DeepMind has predicted that human-level AI …

We’re not even close to building a true AI: Intel’s Naveen Rao
6 years, 8 months ago

We’re not even close to building a true AI: Intel’s Naveen Rao

Live Mint  

Intel’s VP and GM, Artificial Intelligence Products Group shares his views on burning questions around the AI. AI uses elements such as machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision – with huge data at the core. AI is the next wave of computing, and by allowing machines to learn, reason, act and adapt in the real world, machine learning is …

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