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Anthropic's term “virtual collaborators” refers to agent-like systems with long-running autonomous work, judgment, self-correction, iteration, and tool access; the speaker speculates the term may sound friendlier than “agents.”
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“They use this term instead of agents, maybe it's more friendly, but it's a lot of the same things that you look for from agents, from long-running autonomous work to judgment, self-correction, and iteration and tool access.”5:39Report a misattribution
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