Margaret Mitchell: People are conflating LLMs with AI broadly — and now with agents
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-09-21
Responding to Zachary Lipton, AI researcher Margaret Mitchell argues the earlier framing wasn't misguided, but points out that people keep conflating LLMs with AI as a whole — a confusion now extending to the recent AI agents discourse.
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