Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics
Gerhard Ernst, Andreas Hüttemann

#AI
#LLM
What is an AI Agent?
Imagine you want to generate a report on the latest trends in AI research. If you use a standard LLM, you might:
1. Ask for a summary of recent AI research papers.
2. Review the response and realize you need sources.
3. Obtain a list of papers along with citations.
4. Find that some sources are outdated, so you refine your query.
5. Finally, after multiple iterations, you get a useful output.
This iterative process takes time and effort, requiring you to act as the decision-maker at every step.
Now, let’s see how AI agents handle this differently:
A Research Agent autonomously searches and retrieves relevant AI research papers from arXiv, Semantic Scholar, or Google Scholar.









