The Role of Agentive Technologies in Artificial Intelligence

Google is trying to be kind of smarter and smarter by giving you answers before you go off to another web page. But if I had to put on in the narrow artificial intelligence spectrum, I would say it's certainly assistive. Google does have another product called Google Now, which I would categorize as much more agentive. And one of the things that makes sense to me to distinguish them is that an agent necessarily watches a data stream at the very minimum, like a clock, and then watches for triggers.