Intelligent Software Agents - Are We Ready?

Anti-Luddite writes In an article on the Internet Evolution site, analyst Tom Nolle discusses the potential of 'Intelligent Software Agent (ISA)' technology. He points to specific types such as 'search assistant ISAs,' which will inevitably flop before their potential is realized. He speaks favorably of the 'mobile ISA' which he says, 'involves dispatching mobile agents from one computer and delivering them to a remote computer for execution.' While hailing the potential of this new generation of agent technology, Nolle seems skeptical about our ability to prepare for and handle its emergence, particularly because of flaws in the agent research community."

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we're ready if they are actually intelligent

[cats-paw]

Just look around at the state of software and tell me with a straight face that intelligent software agent is not an oxymoron.

File this under what could possibly go wrong.

Re:tl;dr

[Anonymous Coward]

You sign your posts as part of your post, and I fucking hate you for it. There's a goddamn SIGNATURE field on your damned profile. It's nothing personal, you just picked the wrong number.

Fuck all you idiots who do that crap.

Re:I'm confused

[Prof.Phreak]

you get a random text from HAL-9000 saying "Turn left and park at Starbucks for a mandatory meeting." ...and then HAL will refuse to open the door to the said Starbucks---ruining the caffeine fix!

Wait

[TheSpoom]

I thought PCI replaced ISA ten years ago!