Agents are the trendiest topic in AI today — and with good reason. Taking gen AI out of the protected sandbox of the chat interface and allowing it to act directly on the world represents a leap forward in the power and utility of AI models.The word “agent” has been used in different ways, however, and there have been some overheated claims about what agents can do. The rhetoric, the willful obfuscation and the rapid evolution of the field have left a lot of people confused.To cut through the noise, I’d like to describe the core components of an agentic AI system and how they fit together: It’s really not as complicated as it may seem. Hopefully, when you’ve finished reading this post, agents won’t seem as mysterious.Agentic ecosystemAlthough definitions of the word “agent [...]
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