India, Aug. 8 -- It is a bit of a dichotomy, if you look closely. The world is still to fully decode artificial intelligence (AI) as it develops (this incidentally on the day OpenAI has released GPT-5, which they call "PhD-level smart"), deals with long-standing problems such as hallucination as well as context, and yet, agentic AI is being deployed to replace humans in many workflows in enterprises worldwide. "A lot of the conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) is driven by sensationalism, that is either fear-mongering or a head in the sand sort of response," says Nitin Sethi, as he sits down for a conversation with HT. Sethi is better placed than many commentators, in understanding the trends and trajectory of algorithms and ma...