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AI agents

AI agents

- Wouldn't it be great if you could give an AI system a goal like summarize these five articles in a new document or make a travel itinerary for our family trip to Norway in December and save it in a spreadsheet and then have the AI figure out what steps to complete and how to meet that goal? That's what AI agents are for, and based on what we've seen so far in this space, you'll likely be dealing as much if not more with AI agents as traditional chat-based AI systems in the future. Let me explain. AI systems like ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, and Claude all have one thing in common. They are conversational. You make a request in the form of a prompt. They provide a human language response. So if you have a task you want completed, for example, summarize the main takeaways from these seven articles point by point, you have to do a lot of the manual labor yourself. Copy and paste each article into the system, then prompt the system,…

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