agentic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin agēnsder.
English agent
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English agentic
From agent + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more agentic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agentic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.
pos: adj
examples: From the perspective of the previous chapter, to change from a patient to an agent is to adopt or elaborate an agentic plot that the person lives (Howard 1989).
The next section examines ways in which network and partnership management may be able to reconcile self-organization with agentic intervention.
Sometimes agentic systems detect and correct mistakes, but at other times, mistakes compound through multi-agent workflows and may give rise to computational cascades where errors, tool failures, or incomplete data can propagate undetected and enter the final output.
As technology advances, A.I.-created travel bots and influencers are likely to become agentic (a term that describes a system that can take an action on its own), said Ari Adnan Cibari, founder at the marketing and technology consultancy AtlasPerk. That could mean an A.I. influencer could, for example, help followers book travel arrangements or make dinner reservations.
gloss: That obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state.
Milgram (1974) suggested that one factor contributing to the maintenance of obedience was that the individual in the obedience situation entered into an agentic state, which involves a person's giving up his or her normal moral and ethical standards in favor of those of the authority figure.
gloss: Having to do with performance, or achieving status.
pos: adj
examples: If helping is a variation on the more general agentic theme of self-assertion and display, one might expect that power motivation would predict other forms of agentic striving in friendship experiences.
gloss: Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal.
pos: adj
examples: Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him.
In agentic cognition the ego is a cognitive agent with tasks to accomplish.
Within this framework, with gender role self-perception conceptualized as independent of biological sex, the agentic construct includes characteristics such as goal-orientation, assertiveness, protectiveness, self-activation, and having the urge to master.
We have seen that the agentic self identifies values to be striven after, then makes decisions about which values/goals to pursue and then controls pursuit of those goals.
A single, highly agentic AI system rapidly becomes superintelligent on all human tasks, in a world broadly similar to today. The objective function used to train the system (e.g. ‘maximise production’) doesn't push it to do what we really want, and the system's goals match the objective function.
While previous AI assistants were rules-based and had limited ability to act independently, agentic AI will be empowered to do more on our behalf.
gloss: Involving the use of agentic AI.
pos: adj
tags: neologism
Related words: agency
agent
Derived words: agentic AI
agentically
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