Race towards ‘autonomous’ AI agents grips Silicon Valley

“Adept, an AI startup that’s raised $415 million, touts its business benefits; in a demo posted online, it shows how you can prompt its technology with a sentence, and then watch it navigate a company’s Salesforce customer-relationship database on its own, completing a task it says would take a human 10 or more clicks.
Inflection AI, to name one startup, raised $1.3 billion in late June. It is developing a personal assistant it says could act as a mentor or handle tasks such as securing flight credit and a hotel after a travel delay, according to a podcast by co-founders Reid Hoffman and Mustafa Suleyman.”