AI Definitions: Agentic AI Agent

Agentic AI Agents - Unlike AI prompts requiring user conversations, AI agents work in the background. Users provide a goal (from researching competitors to virtual assistant functions like buying a car or planning a vacation), and the agent acts independently, generating task list and starting to work by breaking down the overall goal into smaller steps. The ability to understand complex instructions is crucial for agentic AI to be effective. Rather than passive processors of language, these proactive active agents can work independently to produce practical, real-world applications in uncertain but data-rich environments as it interacts with external tools and APIs.

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