Eunice is almost here

The novel Agency by William Gibson, published in 2020, features a storyline where a young woman uses an experimental AI assistant called Eunice in an alternate San Francisco in 2017. Eunice can perform various tasks while engaging in conversation, prefiguring the capabilities of modern AI agents like GPT-Live, Dessa, Dots, and Muse. Gibson's prediction of Eunice's abilities has become a reality six years after the novel's publication, with AI agents now capable of full-duplex conversations, autonomous action, and background work.