What is AI Agent subverting after AIGC?

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If AIGC is a typical application in the new era of AI in 2023, then AI Agent (AI agent) in 2024 will truly productize AIGC's capabilities.

It’s easy to let GPT arrange schedules, write text messages, and send emails in one sentence. Recently, GPT can already use text to generate long videos. Compared with large models such as GPT, AI Agent is like a more realistic all-round employee. It is the primary form of artificial intelligence robot. An agent with both software and hardware can observe the world around it, make decisions and automatically take corresponding measures like humans. action.

As Microsoft founder Bill Gates said: "Whoever dominates the AI ​​Agent will be a big deal. Because you will never have to search the website or Amazon."

More and more companies are beginning to focus on the field of AI Agent. A set of data from "Industrialist" shows that as of November 2023 alone, there have been 13 financing incidents in the domestic Agent track, with a total financing amount of approximately 73.5 billion yuan, and the average company financing value is 5.654 billion yuan.

In China, the former vice president of Dingding entered the AI Agent track and established Bar-headed Goose Intelligent Technology, which received 100 million yuan in financing. Abroad, this field is even more popular. Data shows that "at least 100 projects are working on commercializing AI agents, and nearly 100,000 developers are building autonomous agents."

In terms of products, the emergence of AI wearable device Rabbit R1 that can help you hail a taxi at any time, and Samsung robot Ballie that can detect the owner's emotions and take care of pets are all here. It shows that AI Agent will become the new frontier of intelligent technology. The following four applications will help you understand what Internet experiences AI Agent will disrupt?

ARC Search reshapes the traditional search experience

ARC Search is the latest AI Agent launched in January 2024, claiming to be able to subvert the traditional search experience. Usually when we open a search engine to find a topic of interest, we need to enter keywords, browse the web, and find useful information for us from hundreds of related links.

In the era of information explosion, it is no longer easy to obtain useful information. For browsers such as Chrome and Safari, the entry point of ARC Search is speed, that is, using the shortest time and the most convenient interaction to allow users to obtain the most useful information.

Arc Search has two browsing modes, one is the traditional mode, which is accessed through keyword or website search, and the other is the AI ​​mode, where users can enter questions or prompt words in the form of natural language dialogue.

Under AI mode, the search results users get are no longer irregular and fragmented massive information. The search not only includes AI-generated answers, but also the overall layout is beautiful. The results include key points and the best search results. Results, specific content and relevant web links.

For example, when searching for "how to make perfect poached eggs," Arc Search will give you an illustrated cooking tutorial that includes "ingredients and tools," "cooking process," and "notes." And add the photo or video you want to close.

ARC Search automatically summarizes search content (picture from TechCrunch )

Based on traditional search methods, Arc Search not only has the ability of AIGC (AI generated content), but also allows AI to play the role of Agent. Its function is to automatically analyze advantageous decisions, organize, summarize, and summarize the results to arrive at a "best answer."

Voyager works as a human trainee in "Minecraft"

Voyager is a game agent driven by a large model launched by NVIDIA. In May 2023, NVIDIA open sourced Voyager and applied it in "Minecraft".

In the game "Minecraft", apart from survival and free exploration of the open world, no specific goals are set for players. For this highly free-form game, Voyager can explore independently for hours, adjust decisions based on the environment, and develop the skills to fight monsters and find food on demand.

Voyager can learn by itself in "Minecraft"

Voyager used in the game can learn from mistakes until it finds the right way, and save the execution program for future use.

The capabilities demonstrated by Voyager in "Minecraft" are only Nvidia's preliminary exploration of AI Agents, proving that Voyager does not need to run according to scripts, but can continuously learn, make decisions and act like humans. According to Nvidia’s expectations, they hope to introduce Voyager into various scenarios such as virtual space, drone operation and humanoid robots.

DingTalk’s “AI super assistant” enters the workflow

Since its establishment in 2014, DingTalk has quickly entered the enterprise management system and become a part-time worker. Office software that cannot be escaped. As DingTalk’s functions become more and more diverse, the operation interface becomes more and more bloated, and the complicated working system is dazzling, causing the problem of “many functions are not used, and the functions that are used cannot be found”.

Ten years later, DingTalk already has 700 million users. In the era of AI, this office software will also use AI to increase efficiency for users. On January 9, at the DingTalk 7.5 product launch conference, AI Agent became the main highlight.

DingTalk releases AI super assistant

According to the demonstration, in the natural language dialogue window, the AI ​​assistant can complete DingTalk system function settings, arrange schedules, process to-dos, work overviews, and messages More than 30 tasks including abstracts, leave approval, creation and copywriting polishing, intelligent drawing, etc.

It is worth mentioning that DingTalk AI Assistant has the ability to perform cross-system tasks. After obtaining the open API of an external platform, it can connect to various third-party services such as shopping, videos, and websites. Three-party platform. It is reported that DingTalk will launch the AI ​​assistant market AI Agent Store in April this year and invite developers to join this ecosystem.

SkyAgents creates AI agents with zero code

At present, there are not only AI agents for scenarios on the market, but also companies are developing tools to create Deploy the agent's agent.

On December 1 last year, Kunlun Technology released "Tiangong SkyAgents", a tool for developers to build AI Agents. On December 25, the Beta version of Tiangong SkyAgents was officially opened for testing.

Tiangong SkyAgent is built based on the Kunlun Wanwei Tiangong large model. It claims to have independent learning and independent thinking capabilities from perception to decision-making, and from decision-making to execution. It can achieve code-free operation even if you have no code development experience. , you can also design your own large-model AI assistant.

Tiangong SkyAgent test page

On the Tiangong SkyAgents platform, users can deploy their own AI Agents in a few minutes through natural language and simple operations without coding. Including completing industry research reports, filling in documents, trademark design, and even fitness plans, travel flight bookings and many other customized needs.

Summary

< /strong>Existing AI Agents are built on AIGC capabilities, and text generation is the mainstream. According to the development progress of large models, multi-modal generation capabilities such as voice, pictures, and videos will also appear on AI Agents, using artificial intelligence Intelligent optimization of our current experience using Internet applications.

So, what exactly are AI Agents subverting?

Bill Gates believes that AI Agents will subvert the software industry in the next few years. He predicted this disruption as "a shock wave to the technology industry" and "the biggest change in the computer field since the change from entering commands to clicking icons."