Digital ExistentialismBafflegab
Autonomous Agent
aw-TON-uh-mus AY-jentnoun
What it means
Software permitted to take actions on your behalf, up to and including the ones you would not approve.
What it actually means
We gave it the credentials and hoped.
How it is used in a sentence
"The autonomous agent books meetings and reconciles invoices for us."
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Digital Existentialism — Ideas that were briefly worth billions, explained by people who are briefly employed.
Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.
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Digital Existentialismay-jee-eye TYM-lynnounBafflegab
A prediction about the arrival of human-level machine intelligence, always delivered with total confidence and always wrong.
Real meaningAsk me again in five years.