AI Agent
Autonomous program that perceives its environment, reasons, and acts to achieve defined goals.
Autonomous program that perceives its environment, reasons, and acts to achieve defined goals.
Définition détaillée
An AI agent is an autonomous software system that perceives its environment through sensors (APIs, files, databases), reasons on collected information, makes decisions, and executes actions to achieve predefined goals. Modern AI agents use an LLM as a reasoning engine, coupled with tools (function calling) to interact with the external world. They can plan, decompose complex tasks, use APIs, and learn from errors.
Cas d'usage
Document processing agent: automatically analyzes incoming documents, classifies them, extracts key data, triggers appropriate workflows, and notifies relevant team members.
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Questions fréquentes
What's the difference between an AI agent and a chatbot?
A chatbot answers questions. An AI agent executes actions: updating databases, sending emails, triggering workflows, interacting with APIs.
Are AI agents reliable?
Reliability depends on the underlying LLM quality and system design. Human supervision and guardrails are recommended for critical decisions.