From the course: Leveraging AI Agents in Cloud Computing

Overview of AI agents in the cloud

From the course: Leveraging AI Agents in Cloud Computing

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Overview of AI agents in the cloud

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- [Instructor] AI agents for cloud computing are autonomous software entities that leverage cloud resources to perform tasks, make decisions, and adapt to changing environments effectively and efficiently. We'll define AI agents in much more detail as this course progresses. So how is this related to agentic AI? Agentic AI refers to AI systems that exhibit a level of agency or autonomously set goals. This allows them to make decisions and modify their behaviors to achieve desired outcomes. While agentic AI can be considered a type of AI agent, not all AI agents possess the level of autonomy or goal-setting capabilities implied in agentic AI. For the purposes of this course, we'll consider AI agents as using approaches that align to agentic AI, so I'll be using the terms interchangeably. However, keep in mind there can be differences. Also, while we'll focus on running AI agents on cloud platforms, there are no requirements that you build or run agents on cloud platforms. However, cloud is where most of the agent development and deployment is currently taking place, so that's where we'll be focusing. I plan to use a number of case studies in this course where possible. I'll present a topic and show you how that topic is leveraged in real life. We'll use a building-block-type approach in this course, working from foundational to more advanced topics. This will allow you to understand how each is related and thus have a better overall understanding. There will also be several places we'll encourage you to continue progressing to other courses on AI agent technology and cloud technology, recommending lessons you may want to consider as next steps on your learning journey. Quizzes will be provided through this course, not as an assessment of your memory, but more as a learning aid to ensure that you have found the core understandings I'd like you to take away. If you're missing something, perhaps return to that topic for a better experience. Your ability to self-learn is probably the best skill you can have in this profession. For those new to AI agents in cloud computing, we'll welcome you to a new learning journey. Also, for those of you who may understand aspects of this technology but are looking to learn more, you're in the right place. And with that, let's dive in.

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