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Foundations of AI Agents on Google Cloud

  • Defining AI agents and distinguishing them from chatbots and conventional AI applications
  • Identifying prevalent enterprise business use cases for agents
  • Surveying the Google Cloud services employed in agent development

Designing Agent Architecture

  • Understanding core agent components: model, instructions, tools, memory, and workflow
  • Selecting appropriate agent capability levels for specific business scenarios
  • Crafting effective instructions and establishing basic guardrails

Building an Agent with Vertex AI and Gemini

  • Configuring the Google Cloud environment for development
  • Utilizing Vertex AI and Gemini models to construct a foundational agent
  • Evaluating prompts, responses, and basic agent behaviors

Connecting Agents to Tools and Data

  • Facilitating tool usage through APIs and function calling
  • Linking agents to business data to ensure grounded responses
  • Enhancing reliability, relevance, and response quality

Deploying and Operating Agents

  • Exploring deployment options for agent solutions on Google Cloud
  • Implementing monitoring, logging, and basic performance evaluation
  • Addressing security, access control, and responsible AI considerations

Practical Workshop and Next Steps

  • Constructing a simple agent for a realistic business scenario
  • Assessing design decisions and identifying areas for improvement
  • Outlining subsequent steps for pilot projects and continued learning

Requirements

  • Fundamental knowledge of cloud computing concepts and web applications
  • Proficiency with APIs, JSON, and Google Cloud services or comparable cloud platforms
  • Elementary programming skills in Python, JavaScript, or another contemporary language

Target Audience

  • Developers aiming to create AI agents on Google Cloud
  • Technical leads and solution architects investigating agent-based applications
  • Data and AI professionals seeking practical experience with Vertex AI agent capabilities
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