Comment by zkmon

I see it as pure deterministic logic being contaminated by probabilistic logic at higher layers where human interaction happens. Seeking for human comfort by forcing computers to adapt to the human languages. Building adapters that can allow humans to stay in their comfort zone instead of dealing with the sharp-edged computer interfaces.

At the end, I don't see it going beyond being a glorified form-assistant who can search internet for answers and summarize. That boils down to chat bots that will remain and become part of every software component that ever need to interface with humans.

Agent stuff is just a fluff that is providing hype-cushion around chat bots and will go away with hype cycle.