WEBVTT 00:00.280 --> 00:00.720 Well. 00:00.720 --> 00:01.160 Hello. 00:01.200 --> 00:02.400 My name's Ed Donner. 00:02.440 --> 00:06.880 I'm a two time AI startup co-founder and a former managing director for J.P. Morgan. 00:06.880 --> 00:10.240 And I'm about to take you on a wild ride. 00:10.280 --> 00:13.920 We're going to be spending the next six weeks together on an adventure. 00:14.000 --> 00:17.800 I've actually just finished myself doing the six weeks worth of projects. 00:17.800 --> 00:23.000 There are eight projects along the way, and I can tell you I have some astonishing things in store 00:23.000 --> 00:24.760 for you and I can't wait to get started. 00:24.760 --> 00:25.600 Let's do this! 00:26.200 --> 00:30.560 Now, it's customary with these things to kick off with an introduction to myself and talk about the 00:30.600 --> 00:35.400 goals of the course, but people who've taken my courses before will know that I don't like doing that. 00:35.440 --> 00:36.360 Let's not do that. 00:36.360 --> 00:38.200 Let's get straight to action. 00:38.200 --> 00:44.200 Let's go and see some autonomous AI agents in practice, and we'll come back and do that other stuff 00:44.200 --> 00:44.640 later. 00:45.560 --> 00:51.720 So I've taken us now to the app N810, which is an exciting app that is definitely generating interest. 00:51.720 --> 00:58.680 This is an example of one of these low code or no code workflow apps that allows you to construct a 00:58.680 --> 01:04.090 workflow of orchestrating between different applications and build it without necessarily needing to 01:04.090 --> 01:05.410 write any code yourself. 01:05.730 --> 01:11.650 The difference with some of the other workflow tools like this is that it has generative AI built into 01:11.650 --> 01:15.330 it, and that's why people are so excited about N810. 01:15.610 --> 01:21.530 So if you come to N810, which is the cloud version of it, you can also download it and run it locally. 01:21.530 --> 01:23.210 But here we're using it in the cloud. 01:23.210 --> 01:26.850 You can press Get Started and set up an account if you want to do this yourself. 01:26.850 --> 01:28.010 Or you can just watch me. 01:28.010 --> 01:31.170 But it might be fun to try this out yourself if you haven't used it before. 01:31.490 --> 01:37.050 So I've set up an account, I've done that, and once I've signed in, I get this beginning screen to 01:37.090 --> 01:38.810 add my first step. 01:38.810 --> 01:42.490 You can also use one of their templates right off the bat if you want to, but we're going to build 01:42.490 --> 01:44.210 something ourselves right now. 01:44.490 --> 01:46.170 So we're going to add a first step. 01:46.170 --> 01:51.010 And what we're going to do is we're going to begin by starting with a chat message. 01:51.290 --> 01:57.130 So this if I go back to the canvas here, you press back to canvas on the top left. 01:57.130 --> 02:03.130 We can now see this canvas which is showing that we have a chat box here that's represented by this 02:03.130 --> 02:04.770 chat window down here. 02:05.070 --> 02:09.030 and we can chat and do something as a result of that chat. 02:09.070 --> 02:10.430 So what do we want to do? 02:10.870 --> 02:16.430 Well, we press the plus button right here and we come over to the right and we decide that we want 02:16.430 --> 02:18.710 to have advanced AI. 02:19.270 --> 02:22.950 And we're going to create an AI agent right here. 02:23.150 --> 02:28.230 And now, if I go back to canvas, I'll show you that what we have in our canvas now is a chat message 02:28.230 --> 02:31.430 going into an AI agent representing by this box. 02:31.750 --> 02:34.350 And then something can come out at the back of that. 02:34.630 --> 02:36.190 And you don't need to know all of the details here. 02:36.190 --> 02:37.550 This is more to give you an idea. 02:37.590 --> 02:39.270 And by all means you can play with this yourself. 02:39.270 --> 02:42.110 But most of this course is going to be about building things like this. 02:42.430 --> 02:43.910 But let's give this a shot. 02:43.910 --> 02:46.990 So the next thing we can do is add a chat model. 02:46.990 --> 02:50.870 And this is a large language model that's going to sit behind this AI agent. 02:51.030 --> 02:54.270 And I'm going to pick open AI chat model. 02:54.390 --> 02:58.270 Now that's because I have an open AI key which will be setting up for you if you don't have one already 02:58.270 --> 02:58.990 quite soon. 02:59.030 --> 03:04.790 And alternatively, if you don't want to do this, you can use Olama instead and run for free, but 03:04.790 --> 03:10.960 you would then have to install it Locally, but I've set up my OpenAI account and you can do this yourself. 03:11.120 --> 03:16.800 All you do is you come down here and you press create New credential and you type in your API key. 03:16.920 --> 03:18.000 But I've done that already. 03:18.000 --> 03:20.440 So my OpenAI account is linked. 03:20.480 --> 03:21.720 It's as simple as that. 03:21.760 --> 03:22.760 And here it is. 03:22.800 --> 03:28.280 It looks here OpenAI chat is connected to my chat model. 03:28.280 --> 03:29.280 So far so good. 03:29.480 --> 03:30.680 Let's keep moving. 03:30.720 --> 03:32.680 We're now going to add in a tool. 03:32.800 --> 03:38.160 Now, tools are one of the most fundamental building blocks of a gigantic AI. 03:38.360 --> 03:41.120 And this week is going to be a lot about building tools. 03:41.520 --> 03:46.160 So I pressed the plus button to open up the list of tools that I could connect with the AI agent. 03:46.160 --> 03:50.520 And you can see there's a large number of tools, a lot of different things that this agent could, 03:50.520 --> 03:52.560 could use, could take advantage of. 03:52.600 --> 03:54.920 It could do calculations with a calculator. 03:54.920 --> 04:01.640 It can book meetings using my Google calendar or read my emails, look at my Facebook timeline, lots 04:01.640 --> 04:04.600 of things that it can do, as you will see here, read Hacker News for me. 04:04.600 --> 04:05.800 I would like that. 04:05.800 --> 04:10.220 Okay, but we're going to go all the way down and we're going to find something here that I just want 04:10.260 --> 04:13.620 to show off, which is the Philips Hue tool. 04:13.700 --> 04:15.140 I don't know if you know about Philips Hue. 04:15.180 --> 04:17.660 It's something which is, uh, gives you light bulbs. 04:17.660 --> 04:22.620 And I have a lot of light bulbs in my apartment here, and we're just going to pick a light bulb. 04:22.620 --> 04:24.660 This one here called the bed strip. 04:24.900 --> 04:26.580 And we can add a field. 04:26.580 --> 04:27.900 We'll say brightness. 04:28.700 --> 04:33.140 We'll let the AI automatically choose what it wants to do with brightness. 04:33.340 --> 04:36.540 We'll add a field hue which is like the color. 04:36.780 --> 04:38.460 And we'll let that do that too. 04:38.460 --> 04:39.740 And that's all there is to it. 04:39.780 --> 04:45.700 We've now when I go back to the canvas, you'll see that we have given a tool to this agent that you 04:45.700 --> 04:50.860 can see visually here, that it is able to control the Philips Hue light bulb. 04:51.260 --> 04:56.860 So here we are looking at our chat, our agent, the LM and the tool. 04:56.900 --> 05:01.300 Let's get going with bringing up the chat message that's associated with this input. 05:01.460 --> 05:04.020 And let's say well hi there. 05:04.740 --> 05:08.220 And you can see it working and thinking hello, how may I assist you today. 05:08.420 --> 05:13.150 Let's say please Turn the lights on. 05:13.550 --> 05:15.350 Bright white. 05:16.630 --> 05:17.230 And let's see. 05:17.270 --> 05:18.270 And bam! 05:18.790 --> 05:19.870 Did you see that coming? 05:20.110 --> 05:24.230 On come the lights that I am, in fact, wearing my light strip. 05:24.510 --> 05:25.990 Uh, so here we go. 05:26.150 --> 05:28.150 Now, you may say to me, okay, that's cool. 05:28.150 --> 05:29.870 I see tools in action. 05:29.870 --> 05:31.950 I see an LM that I'm chatting with. 05:31.990 --> 05:34.150 It's controlling my lights in my apartment. 05:34.190 --> 05:34.910 Great. 05:34.910 --> 05:36.910 But it's not really showing me autonomy. 05:36.910 --> 05:39.830 I'm not seeing something where it's making its own decision. 05:39.830 --> 05:41.510 Well, then let me show you that. 05:41.510 --> 05:46.350 So to make it autonomous, we need to give this agent some agency. 05:46.350 --> 05:49.630 So let's say please pick a color. 05:50.590 --> 06:00.190 Let's say, uh, either deep red or deep blue and change the lights to that color. 06:01.030 --> 06:02.430 Let's see how it does with that. 06:03.030 --> 06:05.910 And there we go a lovely red comes out. 06:05.950 --> 06:07.230 Fantastic. 06:07.230 --> 06:08.590 So there you have it. 06:08.630 --> 06:10.470 We have an autonomous agent. 06:10.510 --> 06:16.330 Maybe it's a simple task, but nonetheless, you just saw it making its own decision, picking red over 06:16.330 --> 06:21.610 blue and changing the light bulb all through Nathan's web app. 06:22.370 --> 06:27.970 So look, that was a bit small and superficial, but nonetheless, it was our first foray into the world 06:27.970 --> 06:29.010 of Agentic AI. 06:29.290 --> 06:32.770 And I strongly encourage you to go and take a look at N810. 06:32.890 --> 06:34.650 It's so easy to use. 06:34.650 --> 06:40.610 It's so quick to set up an account, to hook up a web form to your Google Calendar, and lots of other 06:40.610 --> 06:46.690 things to try out, and it gives you a nice hands on sense of what it's like to work with agents. 06:46.930 --> 06:52.970 But I should say, this is the last time that we'll be using a tool, a low code, no code tool like 06:52.970 --> 06:53.250 this. 06:53.250 --> 06:58.210 As a user of AI, for the next six weeks, we're going to be rolling up our sleeves and we're going 06:58.210 --> 06:59.810 to be coding agents. 06:59.810 --> 07:05.570 We're going to be building them ourselves and working with frameworks that allow us to build and have 07:05.570 --> 07:10.250 different agents interact, be orchestrated to solve problems. 07:10.730 --> 07:11.290 Okay. 07:11.570 --> 07:14.890 So in the next lecture, I will tell you more about what I have in store for you. 07:14.930 --> 07:15.570 See you then.