Building AI Agents
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What is an AI Agent? Architecture and Concepts
Quick Summary
An AI agent combines a model with instructions, tools, state, and a control loop so it can pursue a goal across multiple steps. Agency increases usefulness and risk because the system can take actions, not merely produce text.
What you will learn
- Define an AI agent and its core components
- Trace a basic observe-plan-act-review loop
- Distinguish an agent from a chatbot or fixed automation
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