Intelligent Agent
What is Agent
- An agent is anything that can perceive its environment and act upon that environment.
- the environment an agent can operate in is defined by its use case
- the set of actions an AI agent can perform is augmented by the tools it has access to
- two aspects determine the capabilities of an agent
- tools
- planning
Tools
- currently there are mainly several categories of tools
- knowledge augmentation
- capability extension (=those that address the inherent limitations of AI models)
- write actions
Planning
Planning steps
- plan generation
- evaluate the generated plan, and generate a new one if it's a bad plan
- execution: function calling (=invoking a tool)
- reflection and error correction upon receiving the action outcomes
Things to consider during planning
- planning granularity & planning/execution trade-off
- a detailed plan is harder to generate but easier to execute
- a higher-level plan is easier to generate but harder to execute
- control flow (order in which actions can be executed)
- sequential
- parallel
- if statement
- for loop
