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"Agent" was already established lingo in computer science and AI when The Matrix was released. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/648203.749270 https://dl.acm.org/
by retrac 13d ago
"Agent" was already established lingo in computer science and AI when The Matrix was released.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/648203.749270 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/648203.749270
- bigfatkitten 13d agoThey were indeed. “Autonomous agents” were extremely trendy in CS 30 years ago. https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/267658 https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/267658
- amiga386 13d agoFun fact, you're browsing the web as fetched for you, and rendered in a way you find acceptable, by your user agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent
- embedding-shape 13d agoBetter page specifically for user-agent in a browser context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent (although has a lot less content) Besides Firefox, I don't think many of the browsers are user-agents anymore, but more like corporate-agents, as they don't seem to act in the interest of the software user anymore.