Turner NextGen AI

The artificial intelligence industry has entered what appears to be the "Age of Agents."

Every major technology company is now promoting:

• AI Agents

• Autonomous Agents

• Personal Agents

• Enterprise Agents

• Multi-Agent Systems

The promise is simple:

An agent will schedule meetings, answer emails, coordinate tasks, manage workflows, interact with software, and eventually act on behalf of the user.

While these capabilities may provide substantial value, they raise an important question:

Are we building intelligence, or are we building automation?

The distinction matters.

Because the future of AI may depend on understanding the difference.

The Current Agent Explosion

Over the past several years, artificial intelligence has made enormous advances in:

• language generation

• coding

• summarization

• search

• image generation

However, progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has proven far more difficult ...