Agentic AI
AI systems that operate autonomously over extended tasks — planning, executing, and self-correcting without step-by-step human guidance. Unlike chatbots, agentic AI sets sub-goals, uses tools, and adapts its strategy based on intermediate results.
Why it matters
Most AI just answers one question at a time. Agentic AI can take a goal, break it into steps, and work through them on its own, using tools like search or code along the way. This is the shift behind AI that books travel, researches a topic, or fixes bugs without you guiding every move. It's powerful, but it also needs guardrails since it acts with less supervision.
In practice
You ask an agentic assistant to plan a weekend trip. Instead of one reply, it searches for flights, checks a weather site, compares hotel prices, notices your first hotel choice is sold out, picks another, and assembles a full itinerary. If a step fails, it retries or adjusts. You get a finished plan rather than a list of things you still have to do yourself.
Related terms
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Benchmark
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