What are Artificial Intelligence Agents?

You don’t need to be a computer programmer to understand what AI Agents are. If you are new to this, you can check out a few YouTube videos listed in the article.

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Here is a video on AI agents that starts at the beginning with attempting to define what an AI Agent is. It’s called Intro to AI agents. It’s by Google Cloud Tech.

AI Agents Fundamentals In 21 Minutes by Tina Huang. Here is a FREE Prompting QuickStart Guide

AI Agents, Clearly Explained. This is by Jeff Su. In this video he talk about the three levels of AI: Level 1 is Large Language Models (LLM). Level 2 is AI workflows. Level 3 is AI agents. When thinking about LLMs, remember that they have limited knowledge of proprietary information (internal company information for example). Also, LLMs are passive in that they wait for a prompt from you before they respond. AI workflows can only follow pre-defined paths set by humans. This path is called the control logic. AI workflows make no decisions.

How To Build AI Agents [Full Course 2025]. This video is by Helena Liu.

Here is one called The 7 Types of AI Agents Taking Over Your Job.