agent
/ˈeɪdʒənt/
An AI system that can take actions autonomously to achieve goals
agent in a sentence
“The AI agent booked flights and hotels to complete the travel planning task.”
Origin of agent
From Latin agens (doing, acting), present participle of agere (to do, drive)
Related Words
tool use
AI capability to invoke external functions or APIs
agentic workflow
Multi-step AI processes that iterate and self-correct
synthetic data
Artificially generated data used for training AI models
distillation
Training a smaller model to mimic a larger one
quantization
Reducing model precision to decrease size and increase speed
latent space
A representation of compressed data