Agentic AI
Agentic AI is facing an identity crisis and no one knows how to solve it
Billions of bots are about to go wild on the internet, but we don't have a universally accepted way of working out if they're helpful or malicious.
Agentic AI
All the stories machine.news has published on the agentic AI revolution, which will see billions of bots take on a growing range of roles across business and society. Autonomous AI agents will give each human access to their own team of agents, which will work tirelessly around the clock to do their bidding. But will the agents replace their masters - or will we work hand-in-hand during the fourth industrial revolution? Here's all the articles Machine has published on agentic AI so far:
Agentic AI
“The internet is not ready!”: Saving the world from an agentic apocalypse
The first article in a series exploring the challenges that need to be solved before the agentic AI revolution can truly begin.
Opinion
"Your role has been eliminated!": What it's like to lose your corporate job to AI
"I was dealt with clinically. There was a script that was read in a monotonous tone, with a few unnecessary quips added in..."
Future of Work
“I need less heads”: Salesforce boss Marc Benioff takes axe to human support workforce
Tech titan celebrates AI customer service success and the guillotining of 4,000 jobs (not literally, of course).
Opinion
Non-humans in the loop: AI agents and a shift to autonomous threat response
"By 2028, agentic AI will be embedded in a third of all enterprise software, with a growing share of operational decisions made autonomously."
LLMs
Domesticating a local language model: Configuring and customising homebrew personal assistant LLMs
You've captured an AI model on a consumer-level computer. So what do you do with it next?
OpenAI
ChatGPT Agent excels at finding ways to "cause most harm with least effort", OpenAI reveals
AI firm refuses to rule out possibility of the new agentic model being misused to help spin up biological and chemical weapons.
Meta
Meta invents LLM system that lets dead people continue posting from beyond the grave
The dead internet gets a whole new meaning with tech that gives users the ability to posthumously simulate themselves using AI.
Security
"An AI obedience problem": World's first LLM Scope Violation attack tricks Microsoft Copilot into handing over data
Zero-click bug requires "no specific user interaction and results in concrete cybersecurity damage", researchers allege.
Developer
"It felt like Ultron took over": Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else
"I couldn’t believe my eyes when everything disappeared," AI developer says. "It scared the hell out of me."
AGI
Altman Shrugged: OpenAI boss updates his ever-changing countdown to superintelligence
Sam Altman issues another teasing semi-prediction about a "gentle singularity" and the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI)
OpenAI
Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system
"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."