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What Is a Super Agent? The Next Step Past Chatbots

A regular AI agent completes the task and waits. A super agent keeps going and looks for the next step. Mike Frascogna talks with Shane Blanton about the four pillars DeepSeek uses to describe a super agent, where the human fits, and what this could mean for small teams and large law firms.

Episode 2 thumbnail: Shane Blanton and Mike Frascogna III, left to right, on a dark field of code, with the words Super agents are here. Play

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Mike Frascogna III seated on the American Algorithm set.

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Mike Frascogna III

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Frascogna leads the Episode 2 conversation with Shane Blanton on the four pillars DeepSeek uses to describe a super agent.

Shane Blanton seated on the American Algorithm set.

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Shane Blanton

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Blanton joins Mike Frascogna in Episode 2 to work through what separates a super agent from an ordinary AI agent and where the human fits.

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