Is the current wave of “agents” narrowing our imagination?

The word agent has suddenly become the label for almost anything that moves. A simple workflow is an agent. A chatbot with a memory is an agent. A string of prompts stitched together is an agent. It is the same pattern we saw when agile and disruption slipped into everyday language. Natural enough, but as the meaning spreads, the underlying idea thins out. That thinning matters, because most of what is now called an agent is really an automation. It follows a sequence. It res

Gary Lloyd

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Cultivate Change

Gary Lloyd

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Why Lawyers Cite Imaginary Cases and What It Says About the Way We’re Using AI

A few months ago, a US court had to deal with a surreal problem: a legal brief that confidently cited a series of cases that didn’t exist. The lawyer hadn’t meant to deceive anyone. They’d asked a generative AI model to find relevant precedents and, under pressure, trusted what it produced. The model obliged with fluent nonsense. How does something like that still happen? Probably because the lawyer wasn’t using an integrated system at all. It was almost certainly what we now

Gary Lloyd

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My biggest fear about AI Part 2

My biggest fear about AI Part 2 The influence of the LLMs on what users perceive as true will surpass that of social media. The autocrats already have those models in their sights, and organisations are already complying in advance.

Gary Lloyd

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