Agents have been around for a long time: alarm clocks, monthly subscriptions, spot trading… all the things that « act » on your behalf based on a set of conditions. The only difference is now they are about to get way much smarter.

Building The Algoritheum

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True. Previously, fully deterministic and predictable output, while now it's probabilistic and more similar to way we act and think.

Main difference: Instead of the use of microcontrollers running linear on a clock, now LLMs operating on computes.

the more reason to think through a lense of governance of self-directed agents as opposed to governance of machines