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episode 2 of Learning GenAI With My Little One · 1:16
What Are AI Agents?
An agent does not just answer — it works in a loop: sense what is happening, decide what to do about it, then act. That loop is what turns a chatbot into something that can actually get things done.
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The core idea behind every AI agent, however complex it gets, is the same three-step loop: sense (take in what is happening), decide (reason about what to do next), and act (actually do it). Then it repeats. Everything else you will hear about agents — memory, tools, multiple agents working together — is built on top of this one loop.
8 episodes in this series
Ep. 1 — How LLM Works
0:51A six-year-old asks "what's ChatGPT?" — and the answer that came out of actually trying to explain it simply: guessing the next word, based on everything it's seen before.
Ep. 2 — What Are AI Agents?
now playingAn agent does not just answer — it works in a loop: sense what is happening, decide what to do about it, then act. That loop is what turns a chatbot into something that can actually get things done.
Ep. 3 — Why LLMs Hallucinate
1:06A spider has eight legs — it got that right. Then it confidently named a stuffed bunny it had never seen. It wasn’t lying; it was guessing, the same way it always does.
Ep. 4 — What Is RAG?
coming soonHow we help an LLM stop guessing and actually look things up first — like using a library card instead of just memory.
Ep. 5 — What Are Skills?
coming soonThe specific jobs an agent knows how to do — think of them as tools in a toolbox.
Ep. 6 — Agent vs. Skills — What Is the Difference?
coming soonPutting it together: the agent is the one deciding what to do, and skills are what it uses to actually do it.
Ep. 7 — Why Do Agents Need Memory?
coming soonWithout memory, an agent forgets everything the moment you stop talking to it. Why remembering matters.
Ep. 8 — What Is Responsible AI?
coming soonBeing smart is not enough — being fair, honest, and safe matters too. The most important episode of all.