Agent orchestration
# What AI Agents Actually Are AI agents are programs that can take actions on your behalf—not just chat with you like ChatGPT, but actually do things like run experiments, write code, or make decisions. This is what people mean when they talk about AI revolutionizing drug discovery or worry it might eliminate jobs; they're imagining AI that works independently to solve problems, not just answers questions. The real impact of AI will come when it moves beyond being a smart conversation partner to being a capable worker.
When people say AI will speed up drug development or fear that it will bring about mass layoffs, what they have in mind—whether they know it or not—are AI agents. ChatGPT made large language models a mass consumer product. But to change the world, AI needs to do more than just talk back: It needs…
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