New Delhi, May 26 -- The early 2020s may well come to be remembered as the moment humanity discovered how to manufacture intelligence. At first, we welcomed chatbots-clever, conversational and occasionally cheeky, like digital butlers out of a Wodehouse novel. This was the Chatbot Era: amusing and useful, but still basic.

Then came the current Agentic Era. No longer satisfied with talk, we sought action. Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun booking flights, editing selfies, navigating spreadsheets and doing several daily tasks. These early agents, while powerful, remain constrained-they are brilliant assistants, but still locked in their digital cribs.

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