Forget ChatGPT, Bard and Bing Chat! Those bots are so outdated that they might as well be screaming “Danger, Will Robinson!” or reading programs off of cassette tapes. The next big thing in AI, at least for this week, is the autonomous agent, a program that takes one or a series of objectives and then develops its own task list which it follows.
Just imagine asking the agent to write a computer program or develop a presentation for work. You walk away for a few minutes, come back and the bot delivers what you asked for, even though it had to go through dozens of steps to get there. That sounds awesome and maybe it will be someday. But right now, these tools are more proofs of concept than useful utilities.
