Claude DuetGlossary
AI agent
Software that uses an AI model to take actions toward a goal, not only to answer.
What it means
An AI agent observes its environment, decides on the next step and acts, repeating until the goal is reached or it needs a human. In a browser, the environment is the web page.
Example
Asking an agent to “add these five items to my cart” instead of asking a chatbot which items to buy.
Related terms
- Large language model (LLM)An AI model trained on large amounts of text to understand and generate language.
- Human in the loopA design where a person approves or corrects an automated system’s important actions.
- Duet modeClaude Duet’s mode that asks two AI models the same question at once.
- CAPTCHAA test that websites use to tell humans and bots apart.
- Browser agentAn AI agent that operates a web browser: it reads pages, clicks, types and navigates.