> it is used today in a sense that didn't quite exist 2 years ago (and that definition isn't yet formalized) Agents were a thing in AI research decades ago. Se

> it is used today in a sense that didn't quite exist 2 years ago (and that definition isn't yet formalized) Agents were a thing in AI research decades ago. See for example the volume "Designing Autonomous Agents" from 1990 or the mountain of works on agent-based modeling. The phrase "multi-agent systems" goes back to the 1990s or earlier.