What are AI Agents? (Full explanation)

2025 is the year of AI Agents

AI Agent is a digital assistant that performs tasks in the digital space and makes decisions independently to achieve user-set goals

✤ In simple terms, the difference between AI and AI Agent:

- AI is raw intelligence, useful only when given a specific task

- AI Agent is a practical executor; it takes AI capabilities and turns them into actions, performing tasks, asking questions, and automating work

✤ How does it work?

Example:

ChatGPT can recommend a diet for weight loss, providing detailed information about an optimal meal plan

An AI agent not only suggests a diet but also orders the groceries, tracks delivery at your preferred time, based on your schedule and budget

So, it's an agent that interacts with different apps and websites, gathers data, analyzes it, and gives you the necessary information

AI agents are specifically designed for a task or scenario, with a clear goal

After training, they are connected to the required programs, databases, etc.

Once these steps are completed, it can operate independently

You can also create multiple AI agents to solve more complex tasks

✤ How are AI agents created?

It depends on your tasks.

If the tasks are simple, such as:
- Automated messaging
- Filling out tables
- Text processing
- Organizational tasks
- Data handling

It can be created without code on platforms like Zapier, ChatGPT (with plugins), Makecom

If the tasks are more complex:
- Handling large datasets
- Analytics, predictions, learning from your data
- Communicating like a human while connecting multiple programs

For this, coding is necessary. Tools like Python, Langchain, OpenAI API, and Basedate are required

In simple terms, creating an assistant works like this:

1. You write a small script outlining:
- Goals
- Tasks
- Functions: what it should do and which programs it should connect to

2. Connect ready-made AI models, like ChatGPT, for thinking

3. Link to the necessary data sources, websites, and apps

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This was an introductory post to understand what AI agents are

If you're interested, I’m ready to create a guide on how to build AI agents for both simple and complex tasks