It's safe to say there's a lot riding on "artificial intelligence," a seemingly nebulous industry pedaling all kinds of large language model (LLM) software products. Since ChatGPT emerged in November 2022, venture capitalist investments in AI have skyrocketed, rising to $131.5 billion in 2024, an increase of 52 percent compared to 2023. In the last three months of 2024, over half of all venture capital in the world went to AI companies. One of the flashier bits of tech attracting investors are "AI agents," a software product that's said to complete multi-part tasks on behalf of its human masters. Tech […]