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This week Google joined a throng of tech vendors pushing the concept of "agentic AI" on an unsuspecting and perhaps unreceptive collection of enterprise users. Questions remain about how effective this tranche of tools will be at solving business problems and how much it might all cost. AI agent AI agents swarm Microsoft …

  1. Sora2566

    This just in: LLM's still solution in search of a problem.

  2. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    "They are doubling down on investments"

    It's not because you're throwing twice the money at a non-solution that it will suddenly become useful.

  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Google appears to be in complete meltdown over AI. Their search has now degraded to the point that I finally fully switched to duckduckgo as it's now nearly as good as the old Google search engine.

  4. Excelziore

    So the promised AI synergy is the same, but with less and more?

    I.e. decreased employee headcount (less), but increased subscription and license cost per remaining employee (more), resulting in losses for society (unemployment), gains for software vendors and a net zero impact for the customers of those software vendors, and maybe even a loss since people are more flexible than AI...

    And AI agent financial management seems to be a must including financial observability in real-time at the trace level...

  5. Hurn

    AI and Agents and Hallucinations, Oh My!

    Gonna need a watchdog AI to monitor the Hallucination rate. Whoops, that won't work if the watchdog also hallucinates!

    "I see it, too." - was cute, back in the '60s, on acid. Less so, now, with AI.

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