🤖 What are AI Agents?
Autonomous systems that perceive, reason, and act to achieve goals
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🎯 What is an AI Agent?
An AI agent is an autonomous system that perceives its environment through sensors, processes information, and takes actions to achieve specific goals. Unlike passive AI models, agents actively interact with their surroundings and make decisions independently.
The defining feature of an agent is autonomy: it operates without constant human intervention, making decisions based on its perception and goals.
🔄 The Agent Cycle
AI agents operate in a continuous perception-action loop, constantly sensing and responding to their environment.
Gather information from environment via sensors
Process data and decide on best action
Execute action through actuators
Update knowledge from outcomes (optional)
Thermostats, vacuum robots, lighting systems
Self-driving cars, drones, delivery robots
Chatbots, personal assistants, customer service
🎭 Agent Properties (PEAS)
🎯 Performance Measure
Criteria for success (e.g., speed, accuracy, efficiency)
🌍 Environment
External world the agent interacts with
⚡ Actuators
Tools to execute actions (motors, displays, speakers)
👁️ Sensors
Inputs to perceive environment (cameras, microphones)