Agentic AI Was Invented in Melbourne

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Provocative claim. Bear with me.

The current agentic AI boom — LLMs in loops, calling tools, reasoning about their next action — has an intellectual lineage. And the most load-bearing node in that lineage isn’t in Silicon Valley. It’s in Melbourne.

In 1991, two researchers at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute — Michael Georgeff and Anand Rao — published Modeling Rational Agents within a BDI-Architecture. BDI stands for Belief–Desire–Intention. It’s the framework that gave AI a working theory of how a software agent could form goals, plan actions, and commit to them over time without throwing the plan out the moment something twitched.

AI Tech in One Sentence

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it. — commonly attributed to Albert Einstein

The AI field has accumulated a fog of acronyms. Most explanations either bury the reader in jargon or hand-wave the concept into uselessness. Below is an attempt at the discipline of one sentence per concept — enough precision to hold the actual idea in your head, no more.

The order builds: the field, the hardware that enabled it, the process that produces models, the representations they learn, the models themselves, how we use them, and how we extend them.

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Agentic AI Was Invented in Melbourne

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