{"id":13938,"date":"2025-10-22T03:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=13938"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:01:10","slug":"the-agentic-ai-hype-cycle-is-out-of-control-yet-widely-normalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-agentic-ai-hype-cycle-is-out-of-control-yet-widely-normalized\/13938\/","title":{"rendered":"The Agentic AI Hype Cycle Is Out Of Control \u2014 Yet Widely Normalized"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in\u00a0Forbes I recently wrote about how agentic AI is the new vaporware, reasoning that it\u2019s a hype term that repackages pie-in-the-sky AI ambitions, but does not allude to any particular advancement that might achieve them. The buzzword amplifies the overpromising narrative that we\u2019re rapidly headed toward a great leap in autonomy. Most uses of \u201cagentic\u201d do not refer to any novel technical methodology, and the ambition of increasing autonomy is not new \u2013 even as the word falsely implies otherwise on both accounts. But I doubt the article made a great dent \u2013 I don\u2019t expect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-agentic-ai-hype-cycle-is-out-of-control-yet-widely-normalized\/13938\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in\u00a0Forbes I recently wrote about how agentic AI is the new vaporware, reasoning that it\u2019s a hype term that repackages pie-in-the-sky AI ambitions, but does not allude to any particular advancement that might achieve them. The buzzword amplifies the overpromising narrative that we\u2019re rapidly headed toward a great leap in autonomy. Most uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13941,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions\/13941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}