What Is an AI Agent? AI Agents Explained for Beginners

Chapter 1, Video 1 · 18:47

Learn what an AI agent is, how AI agents work, and how agentic AI is changing artificial intelligence, automation and software development. A beginner-friendly start, from zero.

What you will learn

• ✓What artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning are
• ✓What generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are
• ✓How LLMs understand and generate text
• ✓What an AI agent is, and how it differs from a chatbot
• ✓How AI agents think, plan, use tools and take actions
• ✓Reasoning, planning, memory and tools in AI agents
• ✓Real-world examples: travel, business automation, customer support and research
• ✓How agents interact with APIs, databases and other applications
• ✓Agent safety, human oversight and limitations