A smart thermostat is an example of a very simple agent. Its ability to perceive its environment is limited to a thermometer that tells it the temperature. When the temperature in a room dips ...

But what exactly is an AI agent? As a computer scientist, I offer this definition: AI agents are technological tools that can learn a lot about a given environment, and then—with a few simple prompts ...

Smith follows in the footsteps of a growing number of literary novelists who have turned to science fiction in recent years, as boundaries between genres become less rigid. This is the first of a ...

To this point, people can’t agree on what exactly constitutes an AI agent. Seems simple enough ... In a recent blog post, Turow outlined examples of AI agents currently working in the wild ...

But the Archer City Writers Workshop wants to preserve his legacy by making the Booked Up shop into the Larry McMurtry Literary Center.(David Woo / Staff Photographer) During his 84 years ...

Filling your shopping basket, for example, is something that the AI agent can help with - but you have to decide on the actual purchase. At least, for now. Initial experiments with Mariner show ...

In 2022 the novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote on Twitter that “a friend who is a literary agent told me that he ... This is why, for example, I make sure that my male students read “The ...

He also summons the agent using his phone ... which brings Google’s AI agents to the web. In one demo, for example, a small business creates a spreadsheet with a list of local vendors as ...

Project Mariner is an AI agent powered by Google's Gemini 2.0 model. It can complete tasks for you in a web browser. Project Astra is gaining new capabilities and Google is testing it with trusted ...

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has tapped Sony Pictures Entertainment vet Michael Bitar as a Feature Literary Agent on the agency’s Motion Picture Team. Bitar spent a decade plus At Sony, recently served as ...

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and ...