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What is an AI agent? A computer scientist explains the next wave of artificial intelligence tools

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A computer scientist explains what that means and how ChatGPT and your Roomba fit into the picture. The latest buzz phrase coming from technology companies is AI agents.

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How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

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During my first semester as a computer science graduate student at Princeton, I took COS 402: Artificial Intelligence. Toward the end of the …

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What is an AI agent? A computer scientist explains the next wave of artificial intelligence tools

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Goal-based agents have long been part of smart electronics but what happens when they set their own goals? Interacting with AI chatbots like ChatGPT

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What is an AI agent? A computer scientist explains the next wave of artificial intelligence tools

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AI agents are said to have 'significant advances over large language models' with their 'ability to take actions on behalf of the people and companies who use them'

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A simple guide to the expansive world of artificial intelligence

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When you challenge a computer to play a chess game, interact with a smart assistant, type a question into ChatGPT, or create artwork on DALL-E, you’re interacting with a program that computer scientists would classify as artificial intelligence.

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Code.org helping launch TeachAI to guide integration of artificial intelligence in education

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(TeachAI Image) Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit Code.org is helping to launch TeachAI , a new effort aimed at guiding governments and educators on teaching with and about artificial intelligence. ” “AI is broadly creating a new superpower that is only available to computer scientists.

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AI Boom: 2 Artificial Intelligence Stocks Billionaire Investors Are Buying Hand Over Fist

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The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) has been around since the 1930s, first introduced by noted mathematician and computer scientist Alan …