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Foundations of AI Agents on Google Cloud

  • Understanding what AI agents are and how they distinguish themselves from chatbots and standard AI applications
  • Typical business use cases for agents in enterprise settings
  • Summary of Google Cloud services utilized in agent development

Architecting Agent Systems

  • Essential elements of an agent: model, instructions, tools, memory, and workflow
  • Selecting the appropriate level of agent capability for a specific business scenario
  • Drafting effective instructions and establishing basic guardrails

Constructing an Agent with Vertex AI and Gemini

  • Setting up the Google Cloud environment for development
  • Leveraging Vertex AI and Gemini models to create a foundational agent
  • Evaluating prompts, responses, and basic agent behavior

Linking Agents to Tools and Data

  • Facilitating tool utilization through APIs and function calling
  • Connecting the agent to business data to ensure grounded responses
  • Enhancing reliability, relevance, and response quality

Deploying and Managing Agents

  • Deployment strategies for agent solutions on Google Cloud
  • Monitoring, logging, and basic assessment of agent performance
  • Security, access control, and responsible AI considerations

Practical Workshop and Future Steps

  • Creating a simple agent for a realistic business scenario
  • Analyzing design decisions and identifying areas for improvement
  • Planning next steps for pilot projects and ongoing learning

Requirements

  • Fundamental knowledge of cloud computing principles and web applications
  • Acquaintance with APIs, JSON, and Google Cloud services or comparable cloud platforms
  • Basic programming proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or another contemporary language

Target Audience

  • Developers seeking to construct AI agents on Google Cloud
  • Technical leads and solution architects investigating agent-based applications
  • Data and AI specialists looking for practical experience with Vertex AI agent functionalities
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