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For technology adopters looking for the next big thing, “ agentic AI ” is the future. At least, that’s what the marketing pitches and tech industry T-shirts say.

At a Glance:

Agentic AI goes beyond chatbots by taking autonomous actions

MIT and BCG call agentic AI a new class of self-directed systems

Experts see promise in agents handling complex, multistep tasks

Adoption grows despite confusion over what “agentic” really means

What makes an artificial intelligence product “agentic” depends on who’s selling it. But the promise is usually that it’s a step beyond today’s generative AI chatbots.

Chatbots, however useful, are all talk and no action. They can answer questions, retrieve and summarize information, write papers and generate images, music, vide

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