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