1、Multi-agent AI 21st century automation revolution 2|Multi-agent AI 21st century automation revolutionWhether it was Britains late 18th and 19th century industrial revolution,the United States post-World War II boom,or South Koreas industrialization starting in the 1960s,all benefited from automation

2、 to increase productivity,efficiency,and profitability.The effect was radical transformation of economy and society.1 Now,in the 21st century,a new wave of automation is underway as agentic AI use widens across economies.An artificial intelligence agent is a software program that can interact with i

3、ts environment,collect data,and use this to autonomously perform tasks to meet predetermined goals.As an evolution from technologies like robotic process automation(RPA)and machine learning(ML),AI agents can,perceive,reason,and act in changing environments to achieve their goals.How they reach them

4、is largely left to them to decide.AI agents employ a range of advanced technologies to interact with users and perform tasks autonomously and effectively.Large language models(LLMs)are often the primary interface between AI agents and users.They are a type of foundation model trained on vast dataset

5、s,primarily text.LLMs encode knowledge by recognizing patterns,enabling AI agents to reason,inform their decision-making,and communicate.1 D.Acemoglu and P.Restrepo,Journal of Economic Perspectives,Vol.33,Automation and New Tasks:How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor,pp.330An agent can under

6、stand and generate human-like text or verbal responses using natural language processing(NLP),making human-AI interactions more natural and efficient.Automation has been the fundamental technology underpinning economic transformation for centuries.3|Multi-agent AI 21st century automation revolutionS