AI agent
AI 에이전트
An AI that, given a goal, makes its own plan and uses tools to finish a job with many steps.
Overview
An ordinary chatbot asks once and answers once. An agent is given a goal like "get this job done." It splits the work into parts, uses tools such as search, reading files and running programs, checks the results and moves on to the next step.
Typical examples are a coding agent that fixes code and tests it, and a research agent that finds material and writes a report. The longer the job you hand over, the more it matters that a person checks for mistakes along the way.
An everyday example
If a navigation app that gives directions is a chatbot, a driver who takes you all the way to your destination is an agent.
Why it matters
It is at the center of the shift from AI as a tool that answers to AI as a tool that does work for you. Agents now make up a large share of AI usage.
Also calledagent, agentic AI