"Which autonomous or semi-autonomous agents are making the greatest impact on the world -- and potentially your job -- these days? Certain agents are hogging all the headlines lately, but there are a number of function-specific agents available to developers and users. MIT's CSAIL -- the university lab dedicated to AI research -- set out to identify and document the background and capabilities of these agents, with its findings detailed in its latest AI Agent Index."
"Here are the three leading categories of agents identified by the researchers: Enterprise workflow agents (13 systems of the 30 systems covered): These are platforms with agentic features for automating business tasks. Examples include Microsoft 365 Copilot and ServiceNow Agent. Chat applications with agentic tools (12 systems): This category primarily includes chat interfaces with extensive tool access, according to the researchers. Examples include general-purpose coding"
An index catalogs leading autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents and their capabilities across 1,350 data points. The catalog lists major vendors and offerings such as Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and AgentKit, Perplexity, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and ServiceNow AI Agents. Interfaces and enterprise workflow platforms are the most abundant agent types. Enterprise workflow agents represent the largest category among surveyed systems. Research and information synthesis emerges as the top use case. Agents exhibit shared risks related to rapid action, loose control, and potential labor impact.
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