Agentic AI and AI Agents: A Primer for Leaders
Vanderbilt University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Dr. Jules White
Data ScienceBusiness
About the course
Forget everything you know about traditional AI. Agentic AI doesn’t just analyze data; it acts on it. From drafting sales emails to updating CRMs, it’s not just a tool—it’s a game-changer. Are you ready to harness its power? Agentic AI combines Generative AI with tools and actions, enabling the creation of "agents" that revolutionize how work is done. Unlike tools that simply generate static outputs, these agents take action—drafting emails directly in your inbox, updating a CRM with client me
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (10 votes, 1.0★).
“I am a bit disappointed to be honest. The course starts of with an Agent that is able to communicate with Zapier and do all kinds of cool stuff. So that's what I thought we would do. But we got to learn about general GPTs stuff so feels like I wasted my time.”
Coursera's 4.7 comes from 1,948 ratings. Of those, 2.5% are 1–2★.
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