{"id":13782,"date":"2024-02-14T14:54:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee.yelkdev.site\/?p=13782"},"modified":"2024-12-09T18:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:07:56","slug":"why-autonomous-agents-could-be-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/blog\/ai\/why-autonomous-agents-could-be-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Why autonomous agents could be the best thing to happen to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can autonomous agents be used in business processes to improve outcomes and deliver better solutions architecture?<\/p>\n

Autonomous agents are individual AI entities that can be configured to analyse context and perform actions to complete tasks, then work together to achieve a goal. Spending on this type of AI is expected to increase<\/a> from $4 billion to more than $64 billion over the next seven years.<\/p>\n

The idea of intelligent or autonomous agents isn\u2019t new. I remember seeing a very early version in the video game Minecraft, where I could create a robotic player that had skills associated with them and give them a daily rota of activities. The bot could then plan tasks, like: \u201cI need to cut down a tree, but first I need the skill of how to cut down the tree.\u201d<\/p>\n

These bots used GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) to enhance their own code base. The basic idea is that the agent knows it needs to achieve a task (like cut down the tree or kill a spider.) It\u2019s going to look at the database and identify the skill that seems closest to what it needs. The agent will either fail or succeed, and that information can be used to update the description of the skill, so that next time, the matching process runs better.<\/p>\n

How can autonomous agents can be used in business processes to improve outcomes?<\/h2>\n

Now, we\u2019re trying to understand how autonomous agents could be used in Equal Expert’s business processes to improve outcomes and deliver better solutions architecture.<\/p>\n

Gen AI has found a foothold in software development, enabling developers and software engineers to generate code, create test suites and be \u2018ten exed\u2019 (10x) various copilots. But can this be extended to other roles?<\/p>\n

In recent months, I\u2019ve been working to create autonomous agents that can take on the person of various team members, like a business analyst or solutions architect. The question I asked is, \u201cCan the agent take poorly specified requirements and identify missing information, or see where clarification is needed?\u201d<\/p>\n

We then made a chat interface where the persona can ask me questions, and I respond, which allows the persona to make the necessary changes and improvements to the request. Alternatively, we can build the capability into the workflow tool itself, such as Jira.<\/p>\n

In a customer setting, this could look like:<\/p>\n