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AI Agents That Take Actions Autonomously

📖 Scenario: Imagine you are learning about AI agents that can act on their own to solve problems or complete tasks without needing constant human help.

🎯 Goal: You will build a simple step-by-step understanding of how an AI agent works by creating a list of tasks, setting a rule for action, choosing which tasks the agent should do, and finally deciding the agent's final action.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a list of tasks the AI agent can perform

Define a condition that helps the agent decide which tasks to do

Select tasks based on the condition using a simple loop

Decide the final action the AI agent will take

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

AI agents often need to decide which tasks to do first based on priorities or rules, like a robot choosing what to clean or a virtual assistant picking reminders.

💼 Career

Understanding how AI agents select and act on tasks is important for roles in AI development, automation, and software design.

1

Create a list of tasks

Create a list called tasks with these exact strings: 'clean', 'cook', 'shop', 'study', 'exercise'.

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# Create the list of tasks the AI agent can perform
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use square brackets [] to create a list and separate items with commas.

2

Set a condition for task selection

Create a variable called priority and set it to the string 'c'. This will help the AI agent pick tasks starting with the letter 'c'.

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tasks = ['clean', 'cook', 'shop', 'study', 'exercise']
# Set the priority letter for task selection
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a simple string variable to hold the priority letter.

3

Select tasks based on the priority

Create an empty list called selected_tasks. Use a for loop with the variable task to go through tasks. Inside the loop, add task to selected_tasks only if it starts with the letter in priority.

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tasks = ['clean', 'cook', 'shop', 'study', 'exercise']
priority = 'c'
# Select tasks starting with the priority letter
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the startswith() method to check the first letter of each task.

4

Decide the AI agent's final action

Create a variable called final_action and set it to the first item in selected_tasks. This represents the task the AI agent will do first.

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tasks = ['clean', 'cook', 'shop', 'study', 'exercise']
priority = 'c'
selected_tasks = []
for task in tasks:
    if task.startswith(priority):
        selected_tasks.append(task)
# Set the final action for the AI agent
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use index [0] to get the first item from the list.