A few days ago,MicrosoftAparna Chennapragada, Chief Product Officer, was interviewed on Lenny's Podcast, where she mentioned thatAgent It's still essentially a tool, but in the future Agents will have higher goal-achievement capabilities.
For Aparna, she believes that she prefers to think of Agent in terms of "product reality".So she feels that an Agent is still essentially a tool and a "stand-alone software process that can perform tasks on its own".Because the Agent does not need human guidance, it analyzes how to help the user solve problems on its own.
Aparna said that we are now in an era of "human-machine co-driving"-humans in the main car, and AI in the passenger seat to assist. But Aparna predicts that as AI's reasoning ability is updated, humans will be able to more confidently hand over tasks to Agents, who will then be able to take care of things on their own at a moment's notice.
"What makes a good Agent product?" Aparna has the answer:: "Autonomy of execution," "Complexity of problem solving," "Natural interaction."According to Aparna, these three points are at least the design principles that go into building a good Agent product.