Submitted 3 weeks ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world
https://news.sky.com/story/are-we-becoming-too-cautious-around-ai-13470262
'Agentic AI' is current industry buzzword - but what does it mean and should we be cautious?
One of the inventors of Siri, the original AI agent, wants you to “handle with care” when it comes to artificial intelligence. But are we becoming too cautious around AI in Europe and risking our future?
The best way to deal with Agentic AI is to ignore it until it goes away. That’s my strategy. 🙅♂️🫣😖
May I join you?
Hop on in, water’s still warm.
“People are over-trusting [AI] and taking their responses on face value without digging in and making sure that it’s not just some hallucination that’s coming up.
So very, very much this. I see people taking AI responses at face value all the time. Look at the number of lawyers that have submitted briefs containing AI hallucinated citations and been reprimanded for them, for example.
And it’s not just stupid people either. Even smart and educated people get lulled into a false sense of security by a few correct answers to easy questions.
In a way this has happened before (people trusting stuff on social media, trusting bad headlines from bad newspapers, …), but AI is this on steroids.
That’s because their bosses want them to use ai somehow. So here’s the result.
orclev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agentic AI is just a buzzword for letting AI do things without human supervision. It’s absolutely a recipe for disaster. You should never let AI do anything you can’t easily undo as it’s guaranteed to screw it up at least part of the time. When all it’s screwing up is telling you that glue would make an excellent topping for pizza that’s one thing, but when it’s emailing your boss that he’s a piece of crap that’s an entirely different scenario.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No, it isn’t.
As per IBM www.ibm.com/think/topics/agentic-ai
The key part being the last sentence.
Its the idea of moving away from a monolithic (for simplicity’s sake) LLM into one where each “AI” serves a specific purpose. So imagine a case where you have one “AI” to parse your input text and two or three other “AI” to run different models based upon what use case your request falls into.
And… anyone who has ever done any software development (web or otherwise) can tell you: That is just (micro)services. Especially when so many of the “agents” aren’t actually LLMs and are just bare metal code or databases or what have you.
The idea of supervision remains the same. Some orgs care about it. Others don’t. Just like some orgs care about making maintainable code and others don’t.
But yes, it is very much a buzzword.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Hat on top of a hat technology. The underlying problems with LLMs remain unchanged, and “agentic AI” is basically a marketing term to make people think those problems are solved. I realize you probably know this, I’m just kvetching.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The way I see Agentic AI is it’s just a dumber customer service agent that is ready and willing to be scammed and phished. Not my fault if these companies are too stupid to put in proper guardrails.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree with you. I don’t mind local AI searching the web for topics I’m interested in and providing me with news and interesting tidbits. I’m not OK with AI having any kind of permission to run executable code.
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think there’s a difference between letting it do somethings and letting it finish something.
It shouldn’t be the one clicking the send button because everything needs to be verified, but it’s fine to have it surf the internet or turn a request into a set number of tasks with a to-do list.
Writing an email with it is a no-go for me though, I avoid it the moment it comes to actually communicating with someone. Using AI strikes me as patronizing.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Mechanical key based door lock cylinders are “Agentic AI” - they decide whether or not to allow the tumbler to turn based on the key (code) inserted. They’re out there, in their billions around the world, deciding whether or not to allow people access through doorways WITHOUT HUMAN SUPERVISION!!! They can be easily hacked, they are not to be trusted!!! Furthermore, most key-lock users have no idea how the thing really works, they just stick the key in and try to turn it.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is just a poor analogy.
A door lock can’t buy up Amazon’s entire stock of tide pods on my credit card.
A door lock can’t turn on someone’s iot oven while they’re out of town.
A door lock can’t publish every email some journalist has ever received to xitter.
A mechanical door lock doesn’t hallucinate extra fingers, and draw them into all the family photos saved on a person’s hard drive.
Prox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s Argo Workflows