Microsoft pitches AI ‘agents’ that can perform tasks on their own

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told consumers at a conference in Chicago on Tuesday that the company is teaching a new set of artificial intelligence tools how to “work on our behalf in our work and in our lives.” AI developers are rapidly developing the next wave of creative AI. Chatbots as AI “agents” that can perform more useful tasks on behalf of people. But the cost of building and running AI tools is so high that many investors question itWhether the promise of technology has not been fulfilled. Microsoft said last month that it was preparing for a world where “every organization will have a constellation of agents—from simple prompts and responses to fully autonomous ones.” explained in a blog post that such autonomous agents “can work around the clock to review and approve customer returns or save businesses from costly supply chain disruptions.”.” Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference caters to its big business customers. The pivot to so-called “agentic AI” comes as some customers see limitations at scale. OpenAI’s Chat GPT, Google The language models behind chatbots like K Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot work by predicting the most understandable next word in a sentence and are good at some writing-based tasks.. But tech companies are working to create AI tools that are better at long-range planning and reasoning so they can access the web or control computers and perform tasks on their behalf.