Introduction to autonomous agents
In the context of AI, autonomous agents refer to systems or entities that can perform tasks or make decisions independently without the need for human intervention. These agents are designed to perceive their environment, reason about it, make decisions based on their goals, and take action accordingly to achieve those goals. Autonomous agents are considered an important step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is expected to conduct autonomous planning and actions.
The main reason for using LLMs as agents lies in the fact that LLMs have shown some reasoning and thus planning capabilities. LLMs use reasoning to interpret input, draw inferences, and make decisions (showing some extent of deductive, inductive, and abductive reasoning). This allows LLMs to apply general rules to specific cases (deductive reasoning), learn patterns from examples (inductive reasoning), and infer explanations from incomplete data (abductive reasoning)...
