Open-endedness is all we’ll need

Following the explosion of interest in generative AI, we’ve seen a succession of new buzzwords. We started with the old ‘ChatGPT for x’, moved to GenAI more broadly, and then to multimodality. However, the new word of the quarter appears to be ‘agentic AI’. This stems from an understandable impulse. We’ve now reached the stage where LLMs can successfully automate about 70% of the tasks a bored human doesn’t want to do to a high standard. It’s easy to become spoiled when it comes to technology. Things that would’ve seemed remarkable 18 months ago now seem mundane. Indeed, a reader of the 2018 State of AI Report would have been stunned by Claude’s new Artifacts feature. Progress aside, this technology still requires relatively extensive human input and is often confined to assistant status in most applications. Agentic systems offer the promise of agents - a software system that takes action in an environment and gets feedback - autonomously performing multi-step tasks, making decisions

Following the explosion of interest in generative AI, we’ve seen a succession of new buzzwords. We started with the old ‘ChatGPT for x’, moved to GenAI more broadly, and then to multimodality. However, the new word of the quarter appears to be ‘agentic AI’. This stems from an understandable impulse. We’ve now reached the stage where LLMs can successfully automate about 70% of the tasks a bored human doesn’t want to do to a high standard. It’s easy to become spoiled when it comes to technology. Things that would’ve seemed remarkable 18 months ago now seem mundane. Indeed, a reader of the 2018 S