AI Agents are to AI as the Web and Broadband Were to the Internet

In the early days of the internet, people could mostly share text on bulletin boards. Web browsers allowed us to use video, audio and text. We moved from learning things or sharing things to being able to "do things." We could shop, for example, transfer money and consume all sorts of video and aural content (podcasts, streaming entertainment video). 

Our use of artificial intelligence is likely to move through some similar stages, particularly the ability to shift from learning things (answering text questions) to analyzing things to "doing things," which is what AI agents promise.