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AI of the now: Designing for Agents

Rosenfeld Community
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Christopher Noessel
Author of Designing Agentive Technology and co-author of Make It So

AI agents are on the rise: people are talking about them, getting excited, and putting infrastructure into place to support them. You may be asked to design agents soon—or you may want to think through your product as an agent in order to get a leg up on your competition. What’s different about designing for agents? Are you ready?

Rosenfeld author Christopher Noessel published Designing Agentive Technology back in 2017, and it seems like the world is just now catching up. Join Chris as he recaps the core ideas from that book, how agents have evolved since publication, and what it all might mean since the explosion of generative AI. Takeaways include…

  • What is an agent?
  • How do agents differ and complement other modes of interaction?
  • Why are people getting excited about it now?
  • What does generative AI bring to the agentive table?
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