Introduction to Agents

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Welcome to the most exciting topics in AI: Agentic AI.

In this first unit, you’ll build a solid foundation in the fundamentals of AI Agents including:

After exploring these topics, you’ll build your first Agent from scratch!

Your Agent, named Alfred, will handle a simple task and demonstrate how to apply these concepts in practice. You’ll even learn how to publish your Agent on Hugging Face Spaces, so you can share it with friends and colleagues.

For instance, we created an Agent that selects mails that are interesting and deletes spam.

Finally, at the end of this Unit, you’ll take a quiz. Pass it, and you’ll earn your first course certification: the 🎓 Certificate of Fundamentals of Agents.

Certificate Example

This unit is your essential starting point, laying the groundwork for understanding Agents before you move on to more advanced topics.

Unit 1 planning

It’s a big Unit, so take your time and don’t hesitate to review from time to time these sections.

Ready? Let’s dive in! 🚀

(During this course, we will use the terms AI Agent and Agent interchangeably: they both refer to the same concept.)

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