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Can you point to evidence of widespread use of the word 'agent' in this context from two years ago?
by fooker 1y ago
Can you point to evidence of widespread use of the word 'agent' in this context from two years ago?
- madrox 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37626877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37626877
- fooker 1y agoNeat!
- lolinder 1y agoHere are the top articles for the month of May 2023 on HN with "agent" in the title [0]. Looks like early days for the term but with a few large hits (like the HuggingFace announcement), which suggests OP was surprisingly precise in their citation of two years as the time window. Also, since you're implicitly questioning OP's claim to have been saying this all along, here's a comment from September 2023 where they first said the same quote and said they'd been building agents for 3 months by that point [1]. That's close enough to 2 years in my book. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1685491200&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1682899200&page=0&prefix=true&query=Agent&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1685491200&dateRange=custom&... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37626877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37626877
- Der_Einzige 1y agoWe need more examples of posts like what you made, where you call it some naysayer for being extremely wrong. Actually, folks can and often do tell the truth on the internet!
- nitwit005 1y agoI'm sure you can find it in chatbot documentation from the 90s. It's a generic term carried over from non-AI chat. People responding to support chats were called agents.