Agentic AI. Will the Absurdity Never Stop?
I don't know if the folks at the consulting powerhouse PWC coined the terminology "Agentic AI" or if they merely picked it up elsewhere as a sub-topic of the many general AI conversations being had these days, but a PWC article is where I first became acquainted with this new terminology, thus I will aim my guns specifically at PWC, with the entire evolving AI industry also in my sights. The PWC article begs the questions: Do humans themselves possess autonomous agency? And would not the article have been better served if the idea of autonomy had been kept out of the conversation? I ask these questions while realizing that "autonomy" long has occupied the discussions of workplace theorists and historians as that word (autonomy) has been applied to workers of the human variety, making it inevitable that the issue of autonomy would worm its way into AI discussions. Regarding the first question, anyone trying to answer will, if thinking about the question more tha...