I thought this system just picked the closest runway and broadcasts "get out of my way, I'm making an emergency landing!"

Speaking of which, anyone have a link to the study itself? Since the linked marketing post doesn't even provide a link to it, just a bunch of links to their own platform and social media accounts.

Probably better for the submission to link directly to the study, without the extra call-to-action fluff at the end?

https://nanda.media.mit.edu/

they seem to be pushing their own take on how to implement agentic AI

frankly this study and the headlines surrounding it all seem like a bunch of marketing spin

It’s easy to imagine that we’re going to make the AI analog of paypal or amazon, but the vast majority of people flailed at doing anything useful with the web until patterns had been established

For the deployment of the PC, I think the vast majority of companies start from an environment where there were already terminal systems or shared workstations available, and the adoption of PCs happened as they became powerful enough to accomplish the tasks that were already being done on the larger computers. It wasn't really a "thou must use PCs, though I know not how they are useful" mandate.

A better example of such a mandate can be found in education, and most of my personal experience with such thou-must-use-technology mandates has been that they've been similarly ineffective as the AI mandate.

The goal is just "make all the money at all costs"

You always start with the problem that needs to be solved, not the solution. I'm concerned we'll have another bubble pop like the dotcom crash. A lot of companies are spending money like mad to have any kind of AI thing they can market about without regard to "Does it work right? Does is solve a problem?"

It took my former company a year and half a million dollars to learn that what we actually needed was a completely different tool that promised to do a lot less, but did what we needed it to do quite well. Mgmt got stars in their eyes with all the things the first tool might be able to do someday, and didn't pay attention to what it could do today.

We switched to the other tool at $70/month/user and saw a retention rate over 90% at 6 months. Exact same test group, exact same type of tool, but this tool was more focused and tangible. We went from spending $450k per year at with the first company to $59k/yr with the second company.

AI isn't magic, You can't skip all the project planning steps you'd normally do just because this is AI. Don't fast track it, don't ignore testing data or feedback, etc. It's hard to push back on excitement but it's important that we do. When our emotions carry us away that's when we make worse decisions.