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AI agent

n. Agents 2024

An AI system that takes actions toward a goal on your behalf: booking, filing, coding, researching. It works in a loop of planning, using tools, and checking results rather than giving one answer.

“The agent pulled the invoices, matched them to POs, and flagged two duplicates.”

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In the history of AI

One of the Essentials

AI agent is one of 20 Essential terms: the words you need to follow a news story or a work meeting about AI. It entered common use around 2024.