| ▲ | retrac 11 hours ago |
| "Agent" was already established lingo in computer science and AI when The Matrix was released. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/648203.749270 |
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| ▲ | amiga386 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Fun fact, you're browsing the web as fetched for you, and rendered in a way you find acceptable, by your user agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Better page specifically for user-agent in a browser context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent (although has a lot less content) Besides Firefox, I don't think many of the browsers are user-agents anymore, but more like corporate-agents, as they don't seem to act in the interest of the software user anymore. |
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| ▲ | bigfatkitten 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| They were indeed. “Autonomous agents” were extremely trendy in CS 30 years ago. https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/267658 |
