AI Agents: The Next Emerging Crypto Trend
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Various trends and concepts have gained vast attention over the years; some are justified, and others represent overblown hype.
The next one will most likely stick around and gain significant traction: AI agents.
This advanced software can gather data, connect to its environment, and use the information to carry out independent tasks and achieve pre-determined objectives.
A popular example is a virtual assistant used as a company’s customer service tool, especially for corporations that handle numerous requests.
Driverless vehicles, autonomous drones, and spam filters are other common applications of these programs.
AWS provides a helpful outline of these agents’ key principles, benefits and challenges. Nvidia offers this post about AI agents in customer service.
Discussion and interest in AI (notably artificial general intelligence/AGI) have skyrocketed since the advent of ChatGPT in November 2022. Note that this is not an AI agent. Rather, it’s an AI model (i.e., a large language model) that understands and generates content based on human commands.
