{"id":29267,"date":"2024-12-28T17:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T17:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/28\/how-will-ai-reshape-the-world-well-it-could-be-the-spreadsheet-of-the-21st-century-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T17:50:55","slug":"how-will-ai-reshape-the-world-well-it-could-be-the-spreadsheet-of-the-21st-century-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/28\/how-will-ai-reshape-the-world-well-it-could-be-the-spreadsheet-of-the-21st-century-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"How will AI reshape the world? Well, it could be the spreadsheet of the 21st century | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large language models have changed how big corporations function, and the arrival of AI \u2018agents\u2019 \u2013 essentially automated Moneypennys \u2013 could prove irresistible<\/p>\n<p>If 2024 was the year of large language models (LLMs), then 2025 looks like the year of AI \u201cagents\u201d. These are quasi-intelligent systems that harness LLMs to go beyond their usual tricks of generating plausible text or responding to prompts. The idea is that an agent can be given a high-level \u2013 possibly even vague \u2013 goal and break it down into a series of actionable steps. Once it \u201cunderstands\u201d the goal, it can devise a plan to achieve it, much as a human would.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI\u2019s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, recently explained it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/36785ec8-6f9f-455f-ac74-645bcaa9e221\">thus to the <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/36785ec8-6f9f-455f-ac74-645bcaa9e221\">Financial Times<\/a><\/em>: \u201cIt could be a researcher, a helpful assistant for everyday people, working moms like me. In 2025, we will see the first very successful agents deployed that help people in their day to day.\u201d Or it\u2019s like having a digital assistant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chatbase.co\/blog\/build-ai-agent\">\u201cthat doesn\u2019t just respond to your instructions but is able to learn, adapt, and perhaps most importantly, take meaningful actions to solve problems on your behalf\u201d<\/a>. In other words, Miss Moneypenny on steroids.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/28\/llms-large-language-models-gen-ai-agents-spreadsheets-corporations-work\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large language models have changed how big corporations function, and the arrival of AI \u2018agents\u2019 \u2013 essentially automated Moneypennys \u2013 could prove irresistible If 2024 was the year of large language models (LLMs), then 2025 looks like the year of AI \u201cagents\u201d. These are quasi-intelligent systems that harness LLMs to go beyond their usual tricks &#8230; <a title=\"How will AI reshape the world? Well, it could be the spreadsheet of the 21st century | John Naughton\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/28\/how-will-ai-reshape-the-world-well-it-could-be-the-spreadsheet-of-the-21st-century-john-naughton\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How will AI reshape the world? Well, it could be the spreadsheet of the 21st century | John Naughton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}