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The Future of AI Agents: Deep Insights from NYC's Agentic AI Meetup

The Future of AI Agents: Deep Insights from NYC’s Agentic AI Meetup Hosted by: NYC AI from Scratch Mastermind Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025, 7:00-9:00 PM EST Speaker: Dr. Daniel Barulli Location: Online What happens when you give AI systems the ability to use tools, reason through complex problems, and autonomously pursue multi-step goals? Dr. Daniel Barulli took us on a fascinating journey through the rapidly evolving world of agentic AI, demonstrating how these systems are already transforming research, productivity, and our understanding of what artificial intelligence can accomplish. ...

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What I Learned About AGI at a NYC Meetup (And Why We're Not Ready)

I logged into a Google Meet expecting the usual tech meetup optimism. What I found instead was something more sobering—a virtual room full of AI researchers, engineers, and enthusiasts genuinely wrestling with whether we’re prepared for what’s coming next. The New York Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group hosted an in-depth virtual seminar on AGI—“AGI: What, When, How…and Are We Ready?"—and the conversations that emerged were both fascinating and unsettling. Here’s what stuck with me from that evening online. ...

A landscape-oriented watercolor painting depicts the transition from an industrial economy to a post-scarcity future, with faded business-clad figures and currency symbols on the left dissolving into creative, curious people and utopian architecture on the right, all bridged by a luminous, translucent neural network symbolizing AGI, rendered in soft blues, teals, and purples, with a rising sun and launching rocket suggesting a hopeful economic and societal shift.

Paradigm Shifts and AGI: How Artificial General Intelligence Could Rewrite Our Economic Rules

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how quickly AI is advancing, and I keep coming back to the same question: Are we really prepared for what’s coming? Not just technically, but economically and socially? Last month, I spent some time diving into Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigm shifts—those moments when our fundamental understanding of something completely transforms. The more I read about AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), the more convinced I am that we’re standing at the edge of exactly this kind of transformation in economics. And honestly? It’s both fascinating and terrifying. ...