Neethu Rajam, Krishna Ravi Srinivas For representative purposes. | Photo Credit: Cemile Bingol Assistants based on artificial intelligence (AI), such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, have been around for more than a decade. An AI assistant can be defined in many ways. According to an April 2024 report, Google DeepMind defines “an AI assistant … as an artificial agent with a natural language interface, the function of which is to plan and execute sequences of actions on the user’s behalf across one or more domains and in line with the user’s expectations”. What are AI agents? The next-generation AI assistants are called AI agents (AIA) and are set to surpass their predecessors in ability as well as efficiency. AIAs can be broadly classified into three categories. Reactive agents […]
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