Agentic AI Is Neither Intelligent Nor an Agent

I&rsquo;ve spent the last few months building agents that maintain actual beliefs and update them from evidence — first a Bayesian learner that teaches itself which foods are safe, then an evolutionary system that discovers its own cognitive architecture. The experience has given me a certain clarity about the industry&rsquo;s use of the word &ldquo;agent,&rdquo; in much the same way that learning…