🤖 AI Agents: The Next Big Thing in AI Have you been hearing about AI Agents lately? Everyone should understand them. This latest advancement in AI progression will change the way we process daily tasks by automating complex processes and decision-making. ✨ While generative AI and LLMs can summarise documents and analyse reports etc, they can't access personalised data or take action. For instance, if you ask ChatGPT, "When's my Saturday flight?" – it won't know. That's where AI Agents come in! 🛫 🔮 The Magic of AI Agents: The real magic happens when we integrate AI into our existing processes using the compound method. By putting the AI in charge of the logic – what we call the agent approach – we unlock new possibilities. This is all thanks to significant improvements in LLMs' reasoning capabilities. 🧠💡 We can now feed AI Agents complex problems and watch them devise solutions. They can create plans, execute them, and adjust on the fly – just like a human assistant. 🛠️ How do they work? AI Agents use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to break down tasks and choose the right components. They have three key capabilities: - Reason: Devise plans, think through each step and adjust their approach - Act: Use external tools like databases, calculators, and APIs - Access Memory: Save and reference past interactions for personalised results ✈️ Let's see it in action: Expanding on the last example, here's how an AI Agent handles it, compared to a standard LLM: - You ask: "Manage my Saturday flight." - It searches your emails for flight details - Queries your personal database for passport info - Uses the airline's API to check you in - Accesses Google Maps to suggest airport routes - Provides a complete travel brief with real-time updates AI Agents are making AI more practical and personalised for everyday use, with the potential to streamline countless business processes. 🏢💡 How do you see AI Agents impacting your industry or daily work? Share your thoughts below! 👇
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Want to understand Generative AI better, but not a technical person? I highly recommend the book, "Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI" by Ethan Mollick. https://loom.ly/7IOOstg Everything is explained in an easy-to-understand approach. Filled with examples, as well as prompts you can try, he clearly articulates why GenAI has the potential to be such a huge-leap forward for business and society. Ethan clearly explains why, for now, GenAI works best as a co-intelligence, a tool you can use to augment your own performance. AI can perform some tasks better than humans, but many others it cannot. You just need to experiment. It doesn't matter what tool you start with (Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.), just start and experiment to see how you can benefit. Here's a real-world example for you. We ran an AI strategy workshop a few weeks ago. The intent of the workshop was for attendees to get their hands "dirty" by using GenAI throughout the entire day (Microsoft Copilot for this workshop). In a structured process, attendees used Copilot by starting with the prompts we provided. They could see first-hand where AI was adding value, and where they needed to work alongside AI to get the best result. We worked through: ↳ Identifying challenges facing their industries - in addition to the ideas they brought to the workshop ↳ Brainstorming ideas of how AI can help their organizations face those challenges to drive revenue, improve productivity and increase profitability ↳ Determining the impact (high/low) and effort (high/low) for each of the ideas ↳ Creating a high-level AI roadmap by placing ideas along McKinsey's 3-horizon framework ↳ Examining what it would take from a people, process and technology perspective to implement an idea ↳ Creating a high-level project plan for that idea ↳ Creating an executive summary to pitch that idea In the span of one day, with the help of GenAI, attendees were able to get hands-on experience using AI to help their organization identify where AI can add value and drill into their most promising idea to see what it would take to build out a pilot solution.
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Ghosts in the machine: Peril of hallucinations in GenAI chatbots https://lnkd.in/gJiT8UV2 Hallucination in Gen AI applications could have much more damaging impact than we probably understand. It is said that "Speak a lie enough number of times and it becomes the truth" With World Wide Web being the default and cheapest source of all information, ensuring the factual correctness of that information before using it for making decisions or even forming opinions that impact the society, industries, policies, judgements, etc - becomes extremely critical. Else, before long, we may loose track of what was a fact and what was not. While this is a really impactful use-case for regulatory and policy level interventions, having a Gen AI system in conjunction with some sort of information vetting and filtration systems could offer a way forward. I am inclined to believe that our Tech brains have solved the "relevance" problem before - when we were starting to catalogue the internet for Search. Google made the PageRank that improved the quality of results and information presented. And THAT could be an inspiration for technology models utilising a similar filteration or weighing paradigm while compiling a GenAI response. GenAI is powerful - but now it's imperative to address its inherent NOISE! Would be keen to listen to ideas and thoughts from the geeks and the researchers! #GenAI #hallucinations #RAG #chatbots #GPT #LLM
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AI Agents: What Are They, Really? With all the buzz around AI, terms like “agents” get thrown around a lot, but what does it actually mean for an AI to be an “agent”? 🤔 Simply put, an AI agent is a system that makes decisions on its own, using an AI model like ChatGPT to figure out the next step in a process. Imagine you have a virtual assistant that’s not just following your instructions but actually deciding the best way to reach a goal. That’s what we mean by an agent—something that can decide its own actions in real-time, without needing constant guidance. Here’s a straightforward definition: 𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. So, instead of a developer pre-programming every step, the AI agent can make some of those choices itself. The level of autonomy can vary: 1. 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 (𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫) – You give it one task, and it simply does that task. 2. 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞-𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 – Imagine asking the AI to summarize a document. It reads and summarizes in one go, deciding on the best summary based on its understanding. 3. 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 – You ask it to research a topic. It decides to search, gather sources, and summarize in multiple steps, choosing each step on its own. 4. 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 – In a customer service scenario, it might analyze your question and decide which department or person it should go to without needing human help. 5. 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 – In a complex task, like planning an event, it might manage the entire process: finding vendors, comparing prices, booking, and updating you as it progresses—all without your input. Think of an AI agent as more than just a tool. It’s like a co-pilot that doesn’t need to be told every little detail. The goal is to empower AI to handle certain tasks on its own, freeing us to focus on bigger things. #ai #llm #aiagent #agents
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🪜 What is an AI Agent? Are they the replacement for LLMs? 👀AI Agents are the next generation connected to LLMs to integrate tasks into your legacy systems. This means a chatbot can update your database, modify an order, and much more—all autonomously! 👀 AI agents represent a paradigm shift in how we approach tasks in the realm of artificial intelligence. While Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and others have revolutionized the way we interact with data, AI agents are designed to act, not just generate. 🌟 Key Differences: LLMs are powerful at generating text, insights, and responses based on vast data sets. They excel at understanding context, answering questions, and assisting with knowledge-based tasks. AI Agents, on the other hand, are task-driven entities, capable of taking actions based on the information they gather. They integrate with systems, automate processes, and handle specific tasks autonomously. 💡 LLMs in action: AI agents leverage LLMs to query and update legacy systems, ensuring smooth integration and enhancing operational efficiency. By keeping your systems up to date and responsive, AI agents help serve stakeholders better—turning insights into action. Are they replacements for LLMs? No, they are complements. AI agents build on the natural language capabilities of LLMs, adding a layer of execution. The future of AI is collaborative—and AI agents are here to take action where LLMs leave off! #AI #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents #Automation #LegacySystems #FutureOfWork
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Interesting and insightful post about AI, there's so many ways it's incredibly useful. I've been using Copilot quite frequently and have posted before on here about AI, now looking forward to seeing the possibilities in Smartsheet.
When people talk about generative #AI (GenAI), conversation typically drifts in one of two directions. The discussion either stays pretty surface-level, speaking to someone’s personal experience as a consumer of tools like ChatGPT, or it goes into a deep dive on infrastructure and model development which many (most?) business leaders feel super unprepared to discuss. There’s a false narrative that for businesses to be successful with AI, they need to hire model developers, AI ops talent, and expert prompt engineers — talent that is extraordinarily scarce in the market — to build and tune their own AI models. In truth, there’s an unbelievable amount of software coming online that enables you to take advantage of AI right now. Applications that introduce AI to people in the context of work they already do. I would argue that most people at most organizations will experience AI through these apps. AI is going to become part of the everyday fabric of our work. And while the majority of companies will figure out how to use AI to their benefit in the coming years, there WILL be an advantage to people who adopt this technology now. To begin, take full advantage of the AI tools offered in software you currently use every day at work. At Smartsheet, when we introduce AI to our customers, it’s part of our secure platform, which people already know how to use, and that is already approved by their IT teams. A major upshot from learning AI in a system you’re already familiar with is that there’s a better contextual understanding. You aren’t just staring at a blank prompt window because you already know what to ask. You know where to start and when you see results, you usually have a better sense of whether the result is accurate or not. One last thing I’ll add here — you don’t have to have all the answers to get started. Don’t be afraid to ask questions about how generative AI works and how it can work for you. Most of us are just beginning to figure out how this technology will benefit our organizations. And to take full advantage of this tremendous opportunity, we can’t shy away from the tough questions. In this moment, the curious have the competitive edge. I’d be interested to hear how you’re encouraging your teams to lean into the tools already at their disposal in order to harness the benefits AI can bring, today.
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For sure AI agents are on the horizon now, with huge investments from major tech companies. but most of today’s “agents” are in reality, sophisticated automation systems with agent like interfaces and that’s still very valuable. To get the most out of these technologies, organizations need clear, practical frameworks to evaluate and put them to work effectively. The key is understanding what’s under the hood of these “agents” and making sure their abilities match up with what your business truly needs. #AI #AIagents #LLM #ML
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AI assistance has revolutionized the way we approach performance testing design. With the help of tools like Google Bard, AI can assist in streamlining the process and improving accuracy. Learn more about how AI can be helpful in performance testing design in the following article. #AIassistance #performanceTesting #Bard
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AI is the technology of the decade, but, as this Axios article points out, we still don't really know what to do with it. I see a lot of business leaders trying to implement AI in order to stay ahead of the competition, instead of implementing a solution to a problem. While I'll always advocate for exploring new technology, I don't recommend starting a multi-million dollar program for the sake of saying "we use AI." Instead of focusing on the capabilities of a ChatGPT or DALL-E, I'm significantly more interested in finding ways to leverage AI and machine learning (ML) for clear business value. One area that I am seeing business value demonstrated is in the area of decision intelligence. I see a lot of potential in, for example, the manufacturing space where an AI model can inform resource management by recommending what items should be produced in which factory or what quantity of products should be kept in certain warehouses to best meet consumer demand. In this use case, AI is able to account for more variables than a human could, and in doing so is able to develop more nuanced solutions. This type of decision intelligence is one area where I see the value of AI/ML starting to come to fruition and one of my predictions for how the technology will be used successfully in the coming years. Last week, I attended the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium and participated in several conversations with other business leaders about the practical application of AI, particularly when it comes to optimizing supply chains. From healthcare to utilities to manufacturing and CPG, there are a lot of potential benefits to adopting decision intelligence into existing supply chain processes (as well as other processes). I’m looking forward to continuing these conversations with our Sendero industry teams in the coming weeks.
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AI is the technology of the decade, but, as this Axios article points out, we still don't really know what to do with it. I see a lot of business leaders trying to implement AI in order to stay ahead of the competition, instead of implementing a solution to a problem. While I'll always advocate for exploring new technology, I don't recommend starting a multi-million dollar program for the sake of saying "we use AI." Instead of focusing on the capabilities of a ChatGPT or DALL-E, I'm significantly more interested in finding ways to leverage AI and machine learning (ML) for clear business value. One area that I am seeing business value demonstrated is in the area of decision intelligence. I see a lot of potential in, for example, the manufacturing space where an AI model can inform resource management by recommending what items should be produced in which factory or what quantity of products should be kept in certain warehouses to best meet consumer demand. In this use case, AI is able to account for more variables than a human could, and in doing so is able to develop more nuanced solutions. This type of decision intelligence is one area where I see the value of AI/ML starting to come to fruition and one of my predictions for how the technology will be used successfully in the coming years. Last week, I attended the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium and participated in several conversations with other business leaders about the practical application of AI, particularly when it comes to optimizing supply chains. From healthcare to utilities to manufacturing and CPG, there are a lot of potential benefits to adopting decision intelligence into existing supply chain processes (as well as other processes). I’m looking forward to continuing these conversations with our Sendero industry teams in the coming weeks.
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1moAI Agents sounds like a game-changer. Love how you broke it down - especially the travel example. Imagine never stressing about flight check-ins again! 👌