Agents

I’ve been working through the Hugging Face agents course, and I’m enjoying it quite a bit. Highly recommended! First, it’s rounding out my knowledge of LLMs, transformers, and AI in general. Second, it paints a very clear picture of what agentic AI is all about—while staying away from the hype. I’ll try to summarize here, but I really recommend checking out the full course. This is not a formal definition, but I think the crucial feature of agents is the ability to use tools to interact with the environment. Instead of relying solely on the knowledge of the model itself, agents can search the web, access web pages, and use Unix commands like find, ls, and grep to help answer your questions. Another key characteristic is that this all happens in a loop, giving the agent the ability to course correct in case things don’t go as planned in order to achieve its goal. ...