What is Agentic AI?
AI systems that can autonomously plan, make decisions, and take actions to accomplish goals.
Why It Matters
Agentic AI can handle complex multi-step tasks independently, from research to code writing to data analysis.
Real-World Example
An AI agent that researches competitors, analyses the data, and produces a summary report without manual steps.
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Related Terms
Large Language Model (LLM)
An AI system trained on massive amounts of text that can understand and generate human language.
Chain of Thought
A prompting technique that asks AI to show its reasoning step by step before giving a final answer.
AI Safety
The field of research focused on ensuring AI systems behave as intended and do not cause harm.
Multi-modal AI
AI systems that can understand and work with multiple types of input such as text, images, audio, and video.
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Related Terms
Large Language Model (LLM)
An AI system trained on massive amounts of text that can understand and generate human language.
Chain of Thought
A prompting technique that asks AI to show its reasoning step by step before giving a final answer.
Multi-modal AI
AI systems that can understand and work with multiple types of input such as text, images, audio, and video.
AI Safety
The field of research focused on ensuring AI systems behave as intended and do not cause harm.
Transformer
A type of AI architecture that processes text by paying attention to relationships between all words at once, rather...
Attention Mechanism
A technique that lets AI models focus on the most relevant parts of the input when generating output.