Seeing how we are responding to AI or the copilot button on pc's... I _dare_ to suggest this "Agentic era" is nothing more then wishful thinking. Not supported by any real wish or need on the consumer side.

Well, at least for me: no thanks.

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Closi an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Seeing how we are responding to AI or the copilot button on pc's... I _dare_ to suggest this "Agentic era" is nothing more then wishful thinking

Depends who 'we' is - I've seen plenty of non-tech people in the real world begin to use ChatGPT as a primary information source rather than the web (rightfully or not!)

I suspect that 'we' might not be the true early adopters here, similar to how quite a lot of the most technical users in the 80's thought GUI's were a waste of time.

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Octoth0rpe an hour ago | parent [-]

> Depends who 'we' is - I've seen plenty of non-tech people in the real world begin to use ChatGPT as a primary information source rather than the web (rightfully or not!)

I don't think that's really what people are talking about when they talk about 'agentic' PCs.

	▲	cromka 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think that was example of how previously seemingly impossible things are happening things are happening quickly.

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cromka 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As much as I hate it, you and your opinion is exactly what Jobs always talked about: people don't need things until they realize they need them.

You not envisioning use for it is just a past bias. You can't know that. You can't because we haven't yet reached the point where the OS is fully useful when controlled with AI.

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tmaly 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had to buy a new washing machine last year. It has an AI mode, what ever that is. I have never used the mode.

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syberspace 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

as far as I've understood the AI mode on my new-ish washing machine: it's just a renamed "automatic" mode that uses a sensor to measure how heavy the load is and adjusts the cycle length. there is absolutely no AI involved, just an if-statement or equivalent logic gates. I'd guess yours does something similar

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Animats an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Washers now do have useful control systems. Mine starts out by spinning the tub a little, before adding water, to measure the load. Out of balance problems are a thing of the past - that's sensed and dealt with automatically. It's able to handle bed comforters or sneakers without problems. But it's not "AI", and it doesn't have a network connection.

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jagged-chisel 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Literally, “simulated intelligence” at best.

But for marketing, “artificial intelligence” is fine. And better than LLMs being called “AI”

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ajam1507 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Surprising that there are still people who don't think LLMs qualify as AI

	▲	Octoth0rpe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think in some people's minds, the concept of sentience and intelligence are intertwined, and there are at least some people (myself included) who do not think they're the same. There is a strong (but surprisingly not universal) consensus that LLMs are not sentient, so if you insist that sentience/intelligence are the same thing, then LLMs don't qualify as AI either. If you think the two concepts are separable, then they're intelligent but not sentient. The devil is of course in the definitions.

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andai 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On my walk today I passed an LG company van. It had an ad for one of their new AC units on the side. "AI Air"

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forinti 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's a billboard near my home with an ad for "AI designed glasses".

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corv 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Less space than a nomad. Lame.

To be fair, I find the term to be as contrived as “performant”

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XorNot 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What you're not planning to upgrade from your Web 3.0 platform to an Agentic one?

Scandalous!