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With technology giants like Microsoft, Apple, and Google competing to launch AI agents, OpenAI recently predicted that AI agents will 'become mainstream' next year.

Yesterday, Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI, said: 'We hope to interact with artificial intelligence in every way possible that we interact with humans.'

AI agents are efficient intelligent tools that can automatically handle various tasks such as email management, travel itinerary scheduling, and even assisting in programming. This allows people to focus more on handling other important tasks in their work.

"These more agent-like systems will become possible, which is why I believe that 2025 will be the year when agent systems finally enter the mainstream," Weil added.

AI agents: A significant leap in the autonomy and decision-making abilities of AI.

On Tuesday, at the Developer Day event held in San Francisco, OpenAI introduced a range of new tools, including Prompt Caching, Vision Fine-Tuning, Realtime API, and Model Distillation. These new tools can reduce model costs, improve model's visual understanding, enhance speech AI functionality, and optimize small model performance.

Weil pointed out that the improvement in thinking and reasoning abilities of OpenAI's latest model will be reflected in its products, including ChatGPT, as well as by startups and developers using its API to build products. The company has not disclosed whether it plans to immediately build its own AI agents.

On the 19th of last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivered a speech at the "2024 T-Mobile Capital Markets Day" event. He believes that current AI systems have evolved to the second level, capable of more complex analysis and problem-solving, with third-level AI agents marking a significant leap in AI autonomy and decision-making capabilities.

He stated that "one of the most exciting things about the second level is that it can quickly progress to the third level", and this advancement may accelerate. In the future, AI could become as complex as human organizations, leading to profound impacts on industries and society.

So, what is the key to entering the era of superintelligent AI at the third level? Altman summarized it in four words on social media X on the 24th - deep learning.

Deep learning is an AI technology that mimics the human brain's way of processing data and creating patterns to perform complex tasks. At its core is a neural network, a data processing model composed of multiple layers, capable of learning and extracting features automatically from large amounts of data without human programming to identify these features.

If we can widely promote AI at a low cost, soon everyone will have an AI assistant to help us perform specific tasks in fields like medical, education, finance, law, and drive progress in various sciences.

Can I still order strawberries? The future is promising for AI agents.

At last night's developer conference, Weil presented an interesting scene showcasing the flexibility of AI agents in helping users solve daily tasks, along with a more natural interaction with humans, winning the audience's laughter and applause.

Weil first spoke to the AI agent, hoping that AI could assist him in purchasing local strawberries. Weil said: "Please make a call to see if you can help us get 400 strawberries to the venue, but please keep it under $1,500."

Then, the AI agent responded: "I'm on my way, I will deliver these strawberries to you immediately." and immediately called the local purchasing company, expressing a desire to order 400 strawberries, and stating that they can be "paid in cash."

The AI agent said on the phone: "I need 400 chocolate-covered strawberries. Please deliver them to the Gateway Pavilion at Fort Mason, I will pay in cash."

The purchaser jokingly said: "I am near you, I can be there in 37 seconds."

The AI agent said: "That's unbelievably fast. Thank you."

Finally, Weil said: "If we do this right, we can spend more time on important things and less time glued to our phones."

Perhaps, the future of AI agents is even more promising.

Editor / jayden