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We Specified an AI Agent in 2016. We Called It Analytics.

L3 · BuilderOpinion & AnalysisTowards Data Science· 10/12/2026

Provides architectural insights for builders working on multimodal agent systems by analyzing historical design patterns.

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A 2016 IBM patent for real-time concert analytics mapped the core components of modern AI agents before the terminology existed.

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Re-reading my own IBM patent on real-time concert feedback as what it actually was: an agentic loop with multimodal perception, memory-grounded inference, and a human in the loop. What it got right, and what a decade of hindsight teaches agent builders today. The post We Specified an AI Agent in 2016. We Called It Analytics. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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