Technology companies are betting on a high degree of bet Artificial Intelligence factors (AI), the supplier that allows IAS to take care of the tasks independent. This is not a promise for the next year, the CEO of Openai Sam Altman said that the agents will enter the workforce in 2025. Microsoft Satya Nadella expects that it will replace some intellectual works. Indeed, Mark Benefouf of Salesforce said he wanted to make the company “number one in digital work” through the services based on agents.
But there is a problem: there is no consensus on what, in fact, defines artificial intelligence agent.
In recent years, the term has become one of the most frequent time in the technology industry, and is to transform the way people work, as well as Chatbots They searched for information. However, the lack of a clear definition of what the agent constitutes is to create confusion between companies and customers.
Last week, Openai tried to identify agents as “automatic systems that are independently able to perform for users.” However, in the technical documents of developers, the company described it as “”LLMS Equipped with instructions and tools.
Other giants follow different methods. Microsoft is distinguished by assistant agents of artificial intelligence: the first will be “new applications” that have been modified for specific tasks, while assistants only help in general tasks such as writing emails. Salesforce has a wider definition, taking into account agents like any system that is able to automatically respond to customer consultations, and classify them into six different types.
Confusion is not new, but with the release of more products under this designation, the problem intensified. Recently, Openai, Google and Perplexity have presented its first publications – Operator From Openai, and Mariner Project Google and Shopping agent From confusion – each with different capabilities.
