Agent-based AI (early 1990s) reconceived software from a passive recipient of user commands (like Microsoft Word) into an active agent cooperating with and acting on behalf of the user; this is the conceptual ancestor of modern voice assistants like Siri and Alexa.
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Michael WaldridgeEvidence Quote
“the software becomes an agent that's acting on your behalf that's cooperating with you”
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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History— Johnathan BiCreated: 7/7/2026, 3:38:35 AM
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