Meaning of agentic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.
2. That obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).
   broadly
3. Having to do with performance, or achieving status.
4. Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal.

Examples

“From the perspective of the previous chapter, to change from a patient to an agent is to adopt or elaborate an agentic plot that the person lives (Howard 1989).”

“The next section examines ways in which network and partnership management may be able to reconcile self-organization with agentic intervention.”

“Sometimes agentic systems detect and correct mistakes, but at other times, mistakes compound through multi-agent workflows and may give rise to computational cascades where errors, tool failures, or incomplete data can propagate undetected and enter the final output.”

“As technology advances, A.I.-created travel bots and influencers are likely to become agentic (a term that describes a system that can take an action on its own), said Ari Adnan Cibari, founder at the marketing and technology consultancy AtlasPerk. That could mean an A.I. influencer could, for example, help followers book travel arrangements or make dinner reservations.”

“Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state.”

“Milgram (1974) suggested that one factor contributing to the maintenance of obedience was that the individual in the obedience situation entered into an agentic state, which involves a person's giving up his or her normal moral and ethical standards in favor of those of the authority figure.”

“If helping is a variation on the more general agentic theme of self-assertion and display, one might expect that power motivation would predict other forms of agentic striving in friendship experiences.”

“Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him.”

“In agentic cognition the ego is a cognitive agent with tasks to accomplish.”

“Within this framework, with gender role self-perception conceptualized as independent of biological sex, the agentic construct includes characteristics such as goal-orientation, assertiveness, protectiveness, self-activation, and having the urge to master.”

“We have seen that the agentic self identifies values to be striven after, then makes decisions about which values/goals to pursue and then controls pursuit of those goals.”

“A single, highly agentic AI system rapidly becomes superintelligent on all human tasks, in a world broadly similar to today. The objective function used to train the system (e.g. ‘maximise production’) doesn't push it to do what we really want, and the system's goals match the objective function.”

“While previous AI assistants were rules-based and had limited ability to act independently, agentic AI will be empowered to do more on our behalf.”

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