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Course Outline

Foundations of AI Agents on Google Cloud

  • Understanding what AI agents are and how they distinct themselves from chatbots and conventional AI applications
  • Typical business use cases for agents in enterprise settings
  • Overview of the Google Cloud services employed 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
  • Crafting effective instructions and establishing fundamental guardrails

Building an Agent with Vertex AI and Gemini

  • Setting up the Google Cloud environment for development
  • Creating a basic agent using Vertex AI and Gemini models
  • Testing prompts, responses, and basic agent behavior

Connecting Agents to Tools and Data

  • Facilitating tool usage through APIs and function calling
  • Linking the agent to business data to ensure grounded responses
  • Enhancing reliability, relevance, and the quality of responses

Deploying and Operating Agents

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

Practical Workshop and Future Steps

  • Developing a straightforward agent for a realistic business application
  • Reviewing design decisions and identifying areas for improvement
  • Planning next steps for pilot projects and ongoing learning

Requirements

  • A foundational grasp of cloud computing concepts and web applications
  • Knowledge of APIs, JSON, and Google Cloud services or comparable cloud platforms
  • Foundational programming experience in Python, JavaScript, or other contemporary languages

Target Audience

  • Developers seeking to create AI agents on Google Cloud
  • Technical leads and solution architects investigating agent-based applications
  • Data and AI specialists aiming for hands-on experience with Vertex AI agent capabilities
 7 Hours

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