Agentic AI vs Generative AI
Definition
Generative AI produces content on request, one prompt at a time, with a human driving each step. Agentic AI pursues goals: it plans multi-step work, uses tools and systems, checks its own output, and keeps going without a person in the loop at every step. The practical difference for an organization is that generative AI changes how people do tasks, while agentic AI changes which tasks need a person at all. The first is a productivity question; the second is an organizational design question.
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