What's the difference between agentic AI and regular chatbot AI?

[Olivia78]

Everyone keeps saying AI is becoming agentic. What does that even mean? How is ChatGPT different from an agentic AI if they're both language models?

[FairDos72]

Chatbots answer questions. You ask something they respond. The interaction ends. Agentic AI takes goals and completes tasks across multiple steps. You ask for something to be done the AI plans executes and adapts based on outcomes