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Agentic AI is a type of AI that combines Generative AI with tools and actions, allowing us to build "agents" to assist us with everyday tools like Gmail, Office365, Google Sheets, Salesforce, etc. These agents can perform tasks on our behalf, such as updating a spreadsheet or sending an email. There are classes that teach these Agentic AI concepts, but they are geared towards programmers. If you aren't a programmer, they won't teach you how to build agents to help with your daily tasks.
This class will teach you how to use ChatGPT and Zapier to build your own agents to help prioritize tasks, keep track of expenses, plan meals and shopping lists, etc. These won't be tools that require you to cut and paste the results back into an email; these will be tools that can directly create a draft email and put it into your email account or allow you to snap a picture of a receipt on the go and have it show up in a spreadsheet. These agents can automate and take action for you.
By the end of this class, not only will you understand state-of-the-art aspects of Agentic AI, but you will have built your own Travel Expense Agent. Your agent will be able to take a picture of a receipt or a description of an expense and catalog it into a Google Sheet. It will check your expense with another agent for completeness, ensure the expense isn't already in the spreadsheet, and even draft an email to your administrator with a simple reimbursement report.
This course will transform the way you work.
What's included
10 videos1 reading
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10 videos•Total 83 minutes
What Can Agentic AI Do?•7 minutes
Introduction•10 minutes
Flipped Interaction Pattern•7 minutes
Multimodal Flipped Interaction•7 minutes
Ahead of Time Planning•8 minutes
Providing Agentic AI Information About the World•6 minutes
Giving Agents Tools•8 minutes
Tool Descriptions and Naming•9 minutes
Tool Results and Agent Feedback•10 minutes
In-Context Learning and Agents•12 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Learning More & Staying Connected•10 minutes
Overview of Custom GPTs
Module 2•3 hours to complete
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6 videos1 reading1 assignment
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6 videos•Total 50 minutes
OpenAI GPTs are an Agentic AI Platform for Everyone•3 minutes
Programming a GPT•9 minutes
Custom Instructions•10 minutes
Retrieval Augmented Generation•12 minutes
Putting it All Together: Custom GPTs•9 minutes
Giving Our Agentic AI Tools: Using Built-in Capabilities•6 minutes
1 reading•Total 2 minutes
To Learn More About GPTs•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 120 minutes
Build a Custom GPT•120 minutes
Building an Agent with Zapier
Module 3•1 hour to complete
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8 videos2 readings
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8 videos•Total 43 minutes
Overview of Zapier•4 minutes
Use Case•3 minutes
Giving Our Agentic AI Tools: Custom GPT Actions•6 minutes
Creating the Zapier Action / Tool for Our Agent•5 minutes
Creating the Instructions•4 minutes
Testing the Agent•4 minutes
Complete Steps to Build the Travel Expense GPT•5 minutes
Review of How Agentic AI Concepts Map to Custom GPTs•11 minutes
2 readings•Total 33 minutes
Setting Up Zapier•30 minutes
Zapier GPT Actions Documentation•3 minutes
Multi-Agent Systems, Memory, Reflection
Module 4•3 hours to complete
Module details
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8 videos1 assignment
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8 videos•Total 41 minutes
Why Don't Agents Remember?•3 minutes
Using a Spreadsheet as Memory•8 minutes
Information Access as a Tool•8 minutes
Agentic Support of Human Memory•4 minutes
Having the Agent Reflect on its Work•3 minutes
The Persona Pattern•5 minutes
Multi-agent Systems: Adding an Agent with the Critic Persona•9 minutes
Thanks!•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 120 minutes
Travel Expense Assistant•120 minutes
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