The most highly anticipated development in AI this year is probably the expected arrival of AI agents, also referred to as “agentic AI”. We are told that AI agents have the potential to reshape how individuals and organizations interact with technology.
Our guest to help us explore this is Tom Davenport, Distinguished Professor in Information Technology and Management at Babson College, and a globally recognized thought leader in the areas of analytics, data science, and artificial intelligence. Tom has written, co-authored, or edited about twenty books, including "Competing on Analytics" and "The AI Advantage." He has worked extensively with leading organizations and has a unique perspective on the transformative impact of AI across industries. He has recently co-authored an article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, “Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2025”, which included a section on AI agents – which is why we invited him to talk about the subject.
Selected follow-ups:
- Tom Davenport - personal site
- Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2025 - MIT Sloan Management Review
- Michael Martin Hammer - Wikipedia
- AI winter - Wikipedia
- AI is coming for the OnlyFans chat industry - Fortune
- How Gen AI and Analytical AI Differ — and When to Use Each - Harvard Business Review
- Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire - a16z
- Jim Simons - Wikipedia
- Why The "Godfather of AI" Now Fears His Own Creation - Curt Jaimungal
interviews Geoffrey Hinton - Attention Is All You Need - Google researchers
- Apple suspends error-strewn AI generated news alerts - BBC News
- Gen AI cuts costs by 30% - London Futurists Podcast episode featuring David Wakeling, partner at A&O Shearman
- The path to agentic automation is UiPath - UiPath
- Microsoft CEO Predicts: "AI Agents Will Replace ALL Software" - AI Insights Explorer
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Keynote at CES 2025 - Nvidia
- Pioneering Safe, Efficient AI - Conscium
- A New Survey Of Generative AI Shows Lots Of Work To Do - October 2023 article by Tom Davenport
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