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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
  • Common enterprise use cases for agents in business environments
  • An overview of Google Cloud services utilized in agent development

Designing Agent Architecture

  • Key components of an agent: model, instructions, tools, memory, and workflow
  • Selecting the appropriate level of agent capability for specific business scenarios
  • Composing effective instructions and establishing basic guardrails

Creating Agents with Vertex AI and Gemini

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

Integrating Agents with 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 Managing Agents

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

Practical Workshop and Future Steps

  • Constructing a simple agent for a realistic business scenario
  • Analyzing design decisions and potential areas for improvement
  • Planning subsequent steps for pilot projects and continued learning

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of cloud computing concepts and web applications
  • Experience with APIs, JSON, and Google Cloud services or comparable cloud platforms
  • Foundational programming skills in Python, JavaScript, or another modern language

Target Audience

  • Developers seeking to construct AI agents on Google Cloud
  • Technical leads and solution architects investigating agent-based applications
  • Data and AI professionals interested in gaining practical experience with Vertex AI agent capabilities
 7 Hours

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