Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This paper (32 page PDF) goes fairly deeply into the weeds to develop its own terminology but as Mark Oehlert says, "I think the new language is fine because we also have new systems evolving and we will need that new vocabulary to semantically find our way around." The primary distinction is stated thus: "AI Agents are an autonomous software entities engineered for goal-directed task execution within bounded digital environments" while "Agentic AI systems represent an emergent class of intelligent architectures in which multiple specialized agents collaborate to achieve complex, high-level objectives."

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