We used to click through to websites and open apps. More and more, a single assistant does the work in the background. Here is what that changes, and why it already happened with Google and Stack Overflow.
I can’t see some tasks, particularly booking concert tickets, being done by AI agents
I’m not sure I follow… Care to elaborate?
I can absolutely see the potential for abuse and a race to produce faster agents. Now that I think about it, before too long “Time To First Token” will become an uninteresting metric, and agents will all be steerable/interruptible mid-task, enabling legit real-time language processing (as opposed to the batch-mode they currently have).
I’m not sure I follow… Care to elaborate?
I can absolutely see the potential for abuse and a race to produce faster agents. Now that I think about it, before too long “Time To First Token” will become an uninteresting metric, and agents will all be steerable/interruptible mid-task, enabling legit real-time language processing (as opposed to the batch-mode they currently have).