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Vidip Ghosh
Vidip Ghosh

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From Assistants to Decision-Makers: AI Agents vs. Agentic AI

When it comes in terms of automating stuff and decision making, AI agents & Agentic AI are often mentioned together- but they don't work the same way.

AI Agents

  • AI agents are task oriented i.e. it can only be used for specific task.
  • Designed to perform tasks independently.
  • Cannot help in decision making.
  • Ex: Email organizer → classifies emails into categories (spam, promotions, important).

Agentic AI

  • These are multi specialized agents that work together simultaneously. Capable of performing multiple tasks.
  • Can communicate, collaborate, and adapt to changing situations i.e. agentic AI are capable of learning from user interactions.
  • Ex: Healthcare agent which can both analyze documents as well as suggest us treatments.

👉 In short:
AI Agents = Specialists (narrow tasks, limited adaptability)
Agentic AI = Collaborators (multi-tasking, adaptive, decision-making)

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