toms guide OpenAI confirms AI agents are coming next year

[UltraMega]

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During its first OpenAI DevDay event in San Francisco, CEO Sam Altman said “2025 is when agents will work,” and the company demonstrated an early example of the potential capabilities of agents by having a voice assistant make a call and order strawberries on its own.

 

The company says there are five stages to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and we are currently at stage two, where AI can reason through an idea before responding. Agents is stage three and means AI is smart enough to reason through an idea and as part of planning its response can go off and perform actions independently.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/openai-confirms-ai-agents-are-coming-next-year-what-it-means-for-you/ar-AA1rAvX3?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01

 

 

I wonder if agents will mark a point where people really start to feel the impact of AI on a daily basis instead of just reading about it in the news, or seeing crazy AI generated Facebook ads. 

[SamsTechStuff]

I find that unsettling. I have had interactions with chatbots and still do that range from bare minimum to extremely poor when attempting to get support. I know that this will eventually completely displace 'level 1' support for technology and likely above but, I'm guessing the customers paying the price literally and figuratively won't care about rising share prices. Even now when I use ChatGPT for assistance with scripting, it still takes work to get what I need from the tool.

[Alex]

4 hours ago, SamsTechStuff said:

I find that unsettling. I have had interactions with chatbots and still do that range from bare minimum to extremely poor when attempting to get support. I know that this will eventually completely displace 'level 1' support for technology and likely above but, I'm guessing the customers paying the price literally and figuratively won't care about rising share prices. Even now when I use ChatGPT for assistance with scripting, it still takes work to get what I need from the tool.

It's already providing 'Level 0' support as we call it. But I do hope Governments start to step in to protect some jobs/areas from this in the short-term similar to how data residency/GDPR is mandated.

 

[SamsTechStuff]

29 minutes ago, Alex said:

It's already providing 'Level 0' support as we call it. But I do hope Governments start to step in to protect some jobs/areas from this in the short-term similar to how data residency/GDPR is mandated.

 

 

This is a good point, it's hard to see what future holds if even just 1-2% of total workers get laid off in multiple industries in a short period of time. Competition for remaining open jobs or available resources would look rough. It's also very difficult to see how another tech company will be any better with our data than the rest.

[UltraMega]

32 minutes ago, Alex said:

It's already providing 'Level 0' support as we call it. But I do hope Governments start to step in to protect some jobs/areas from this in the short-term similar to how data residency/GDPR is mandated.

 

I think it's virtually impossible that will happen. The government can't just make it illegal to use AI because it leads to job loss, and if they did they would just be giving competing nations a major advantage, because it's not like China is going to come to the same agreement. Regardless of how any of us feel personally, regulation is a super unrealistic outcome. Safety regulations, sure, but the government is not going to stop AI from replacing job. 

 

There are simple solutions. Tax AI based labor, use the tax revenue to pay a UBI. Eventually, something like that will become necessary. If you are worried about AI replacing job, hope for a real long term solution because just banning it will not happen. 

Edited October 2 by UltraMega