Agent-based AI (emerging late 1980s-early 1990s, Waldridge's primary research focus) represents a synthesis: moving beyond the user-directed, reactive model of traditional software (where the user tells the system what to do) toward software agents that proactively cooperate with users on tasks and can interact with other agents.
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Michael WaldridgeEvidence Quote
“the idea that emerged uh in the end of the 1980s beginning of the 1990s and which I worked on was to change the relationship of software so that the software becomes an agent that's acting on your behalf that's cooperating with you working with you on the task”
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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History— Johnathan BiCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:08:35 AM
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