Unscrupulous AI vendors are increasingly engaging in 'agent washing' by mislabeling basic chatbots and automation tools as advanced AI agents.

After a few minutes, the carpet is clean. The smart thermostat is an example of what AI researchers call a simple reflex agent. It makes decisions, but those decisions are simple and based only on ...

Remember these so I can use them later." Then, the agent shows step-by-step how it plans to tackle the prompt while navigating the web so the user can see its reasoning process.