{"id":167731,"date":"2023-07-18T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T07:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/insight-race-towards-autonomous-ai-agents-grips-silicon-valley"},"modified":"2023-07-18T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T07:22:23","slug":"insight-race-towards-autonomous-ai-agents-grips-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/insight-race-towards-autonomous-ai-agents-grips-silicon-valley","title":{"rendered":"Insight: Race towards \u2018autonomous\u2019 AI agents grips Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/insight-race-towards-autonomous-ai-agents-grips-silicon-valley2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 17 \u2014 Around a decade after virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes, powered by the latest version of the technology behind ChatGPT and its rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Experimental systems that run on GPT-4 or similar models are attracting billions of dollars of investment as Silicon Valley competes to capitalize on the advances in AI. The new assistants \u2014 often called \u201cagents\u201d or \u201ccopilots\u201d \u2014 promise to perform more complex personal and work tasks when commanded to by a human, without needing close supervision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigh level, we want this to become something like your personal AI friend,\u201d said developer Div Garg, whose company MultiOn is beta-testing an AI agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 17 \u2014 Around a decade after virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes, powered by the latest version of the technology behind ChatGPT and its rivals. Experimental systems that run on GPT-4 or similar models are attracting billions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}