What Makes AI Agents Different from Other Types of AI Tools?

What Makes AI Agents Different from Other Types of AI Tools?

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Let’s clarify the distinctions between buzzwords like AI agents, copilots & assistants, and compare their definitions with a dozen of popular AI tools. Existing AI agents are often “ one-legged ” — they have “tools” to take actions but lack “sensors” to be triggered by external events. Their autonomy is limited for safety, although their reasoning capabilities are nearly advanced enough to enable (semi-)autonomous behavior. So far, most AI copilot features in popular tools (except for developer-focused copilots) fall short of enabling deep, user-tailored human-AI collaboration. Most AI tools are merely assistants without user-level memory and true anticipation of user needs . ChatGPT is unsurprisingly the most powerful copilot on the market. OpenAI is about to transform ChatGPT into a fully-fledged AI agent . However, its versatility leads to […]

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