Nicholas T. Runcie, Fergus Imrie, Charlotte M. Deane
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Nicholas T. Runcie, Fergus Imrie, Charlotte M. Deane
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
Why it matters
A working template for agentic self-improvement: pick an objective a existing tool can verify automatically — here, round-tripping a generated name back to the input structure — and let the AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → iterate to 98.1% on 103M held-out cases.
