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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They call them Agents now to desperately slap a patina of futuristic competence over the word "chatbot:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Agents are supposed to be self-sustaining automated services, this is a misappropriation of the term but perhaps it doesn’t matter as it’s all novel tech anyway. Marketing folks going to do their thing.