AI Agents – Are They The Next Big Thing?

The recent rollouts of Large Language Models (LLMs) (a.k.a Foundational Models) have provided hundreds of millions of people hands-on experience with what is possible with AI. We are getting to know the amazing things ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), LLaMA (Meta), PaLM (Google) and LaMDA (Google) can do, along with where they need work.

The University of Pennsylvania Professor Ethan Mollick has been a leader in the “use of LLMs” discussions. He explores what could be next with AI Agents.

Many people think the future of AI lies in “agents” – a fuzzily-defined term that refers to an autonomous AI program that is given a goal, and then works towards accomplishing it on its own. There has been a lot of buzz about agents over the past few months, but not much technology that actually works well.

As always, Professor Mollick provides examples of how this would work.

While it is easy to imagine AI agents, it may be hard to know when we will trust carrying our goals with our money.