📒 AI Terms – AI Agents · AI Bits and Pieces

Michael Wacht

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Oct '25 (edited) • 🔵 AI Curious

📒 AI Terms – AI Agents

Term: AI Agents

Level: Advanced

Category: Practical AI

🪄 Simple Definition: AI Agents are AI systems that can plan tasks, make decisions, and take actions on their own.

🌟 Expanded Definition: Unlike chatbots that only reply to prompts, AI agents can use tools, fetch data, and chain tasks together automatically. They follow goals you set (“summarize this report and email it to the team”) and break them down into smaller steps. This makes them powerful for handling repetitive or multi-step workflows without constant human input.

⚡ In Action: Ask an AI agent: “Monitor new leads, draft a personalized welcome email, and add them to the CRM.” 👉 The agent checks the lead source, writes the email, and updates the system — without you doing each step.

💡 Pro Tip: AI agents are great for automation but keep “human-in-the-loop” review for sensitive tasks like contracts, finances, or compliance.

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