A team of Apple researchers set out to understand what real users expect from AI agents, and how they’d rather interact with them.

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Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...