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What Are AI Agents & How They Differ from Chatbots
12 min
What you will learn
- Define AI agents and explain the perceive-think-act loop
- Distinguish agents from chatbots, copilots, and simple automations
- Identify the core capabilities that make agents possible: tool use, memory, and multi-step reasoning
- Recognize real-world examples of AI agents in production
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Key takeaway
An AI agent is not just a chatbot with more features — it is a fundamentally different architecture. Agents perceive their environment, reason about what to do, take actions using tools, observe the results, and repeat until the goal is achieved. The key difference is autonomy: agents decide what to do next, not the user.