WEBVTT 00:00.080 --> 00:01.600 Okay, we've got that out of the way. 00:01.640 --> 00:06.720 I know you probably knew what an LM and an API was, but hopefully there's still something interesting 00:06.720 --> 00:07.000 in there. 00:07.000 --> 00:13.280 But now, AI agents, even if you think you know what an AI agent is, there's so much confusion and 00:13.320 --> 00:17.760 disconnect and disharmony about what exactly is an AI agent. 00:17.760 --> 00:20.840 There are memes about this, about how confusing it is. 00:20.840 --> 00:25.040 So let me let me clear up any confusion. 00:25.040 --> 00:28.600 An AI agent can honestly be whatever you want it to be. 00:28.640 --> 00:32.440 It's one of these terms that people use so loosely these days. 00:32.440 --> 00:32.840 So. 00:32.840 --> 00:35.440 So never fear, you can call anything you're doing. 00:35.440 --> 00:37.000 I guess it has to be something with AI. 00:37.040 --> 00:44.680 You could call it an AI agent, but most of the time, particularly practitioners do have something 00:44.680 --> 00:49.760 nowadays quite specific in mind when they use the term AI agent. 00:49.760 --> 00:51.920 And let me cover that with you right now. 00:52.040 --> 00:56.080 First of all, a couple of things that they don't necessarily have in mind. 00:56.080 --> 01:02.610 So for a while, OpenAI and others were using this kind of expression to define an AI agent. 01:02.610 --> 01:04.890 And this might not be exactly the words that we use, but. 01:04.890 --> 01:10.330 But along these lines, there are AI systems that can do work for you independently. 01:10.530 --> 01:17.330 And of course, that has shades of like the OpenAI, GPT agent, formerly the operator agent, like 01:17.330 --> 01:24.130 one of these these tools where you can ask it, go and find me a reservation for some Chinese food, 01:24.130 --> 01:27.930 which has a reservation for availability for three people. 01:27.930 --> 01:34.690 This evening at 9 p.m. in New York, go and off it will go, and you can watch it open up a browser 01:34.690 --> 01:38.010 and do stuff working for you independently. 01:38.050 --> 01:42.890 And that was a kind of working definition of AI agents for for a long time. 01:43.090 --> 01:51.250 And then towards the start of 2025, there began to be industry consensus around a slightly tighter 01:51.250 --> 01:57.610 definition that anthropic had in their seminal blog post, Building Effective Agents. 01:57.650 --> 02:00.490 Huggingface had it the New York startup. 02:01.020 --> 02:10.940 And it is that that agents are where an Lem controls the workflow, where an Lem controls the workflow. 02:11.300 --> 02:15.140 So some idea that there could be many different things that could happen next. 02:15.300 --> 02:19.340 And the way you decide which one happens next is not just through some code. 02:19.340 --> 02:26.300 You don't just say do A, then do B, then do C, but rather you send a prompt to an Lem. 02:26.340 --> 02:31.100 You talk to GPT and you say, hey, there are three things that could happen. 02:31.100 --> 02:34.540 Next, please respond with which one it should be. 02:34.740 --> 02:42.980 And it was responding so that the Lem was orchestrating what happens when and at that time, that was 02:43.020 --> 02:47.460 that that became the evolving definition of an AI agent. 02:47.460 --> 02:55.940 But the new definition of an AI agent that has really taken hold towards the end of 2025 is that it's 02:55.980 --> 03:05.630 it's an Lem that runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal, runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal, and 03:05.630 --> 03:07.790 we haven't yet gone through all this terminology. 03:07.790 --> 03:12.830 Some of this you probably have a decent idea of, but we are going to go go deep on this. 03:12.870 --> 03:19.150 Of course, you already saw that we created an AI agent, uh, node as they're called, like one of 03:19.150 --> 03:24.590 those boxes in Nw10 and that it had tools there as one of the lines coming out of it. 03:24.710 --> 03:25.870 Uh, connectors. 03:25.870 --> 03:31.710 So we are going to be building these AI agents and generally speaking, on, on this course we can be 03:31.710 --> 03:32.270 pretty loose. 03:32.310 --> 03:37.630 Of course, in N810 there is this, this AI agent node that we've already used. 03:37.630 --> 03:42.670 And really any project that's got that in it, including the one we did a few moments ago we could consider 03:42.670 --> 03:44.030 to be an AI agent. 03:44.190 --> 03:52.150 But strictly speaking, the practitioners view would be that it's only a true agentic AI case when we 03:52.150 --> 03:56.550 have an agent running tools in a loop to achieve a goal. 03:56.790 --> 04:02.560 And never fear, for the main projects on this course, we will absolutely tick all those boxes. 04:02.560 --> 04:05.400 We will be building true AI agents. 04:05.560 --> 04:08.960 Okay, well, there is one more definition that I should probably give you. 04:09.040 --> 04:14.160 Uh, and that would be what is what exactly is Nan that this whole course is about? 04:14.320 --> 04:16.720 I imagine you already have a pretty good idea, but still. 04:16.720 --> 04:17.720 Let's dig in. 04:17.720 --> 04:23.320 So first of all, of course, what it is is it's called a workflow automation startup. 04:23.360 --> 04:28.080 It's not a million miles away from from things like Zapier that have been around for longer. 04:28.240 --> 04:29.440 Um, but it's relatively new. 04:29.480 --> 04:31.800 It was it was founded in Berlin in 2019. 04:32.000 --> 04:39.080 Uh, and it just in in the last few years, it has become a multibillion dollar business. 04:39.240 --> 04:46.000 And it has users estimates vary wildly, but it is generally believed to be in the millions. 04:46.360 --> 04:47.280 It is. 04:47.640 --> 04:55.080 What makes it different is is how simple and streamlined it is, both working with AI and working with 04:55.080 --> 04:56.160 integrations. 04:56.160 --> 04:58.800 It's just fantastic to use. 04:58.800 --> 05:03.200 It's so easy to deliver business value using NHSN. 05:03.200 --> 05:08.120 And that is why we will see that whether you are technical or non-technical, you're going to be delivering 05:08.120 --> 05:09.960 impact in a matter of minutes. 05:10.240 --> 05:12.600 There are a couple of different ways that you can use. 05:13.440 --> 05:19.480 You can use it on the cloud, which is what we did earlier, which is where you were using their installation 05:19.480 --> 05:23.600 and installation of naa10 in the company. 05:23.600 --> 05:27.240 And it's a product and it's their cloud deployment at Nintendo. 05:28.360 --> 05:33.280 And if so, it's free for a few weeks and then you'd have to pay the I think it's $24 a month for me. 05:34.040 --> 05:36.520 Or you can host it yourself. 05:36.520 --> 05:41.880 You can download the software and run it yourself on your own computer or on some cloud box that you 05:41.880 --> 05:44.080 have, in which case it is free. 05:44.120 --> 05:45.440 Because it is. 05:45.480 --> 05:46.960 It is something I was going to say. 05:46.960 --> 05:47.600 It's open source. 05:47.600 --> 05:48.880 It's not exactly open source. 05:48.880 --> 05:50.640 It's called fair code. 05:50.680 --> 05:53.120 That is the name of the license that they have pioneered. 05:53.280 --> 05:57.280 Um, and it's important to understand exactly what that means. 05:57.480 --> 05:59.720 So as I say, Naa10 is not open source. 05:59.720 --> 06:01.410 It is fair code. 06:01.450 --> 06:04.570 It means that you can use it for free. 06:04.610 --> 06:07.130 You can download the code, you can run it. 06:07.130 --> 06:08.650 You can also change it. 06:08.650 --> 06:13.010 You're welcome to go in and improve and build your own stuff. 06:13.370 --> 06:18.570 You can use N810 for free to deliver value for your business. 06:18.570 --> 06:21.810 You don't need to pay anything if you're running it yourself. 06:22.170 --> 06:25.330 You can also build client projects. 06:25.330 --> 06:25.730 You can. 06:25.730 --> 06:28.170 You can deliver projects for your clients. 06:28.170 --> 06:35.810 If they use N810, you can build stuff for them in in n810 and you don't need to give any money to N810. 06:35.850 --> 06:38.490 That is yours to do and mine to do. 06:38.530 --> 06:41.170 That is part of the fair code license. 06:41.490 --> 06:43.650 So you may be thinking, okay, so what can't I do? 06:43.850 --> 06:46.850 Well, basically it's perfectly reasonable. 06:47.090 --> 06:58.050 You can't use N810 to directly compete with N810, so you can't sell N810 yourself the product and you 06:58.090 --> 07:01.020 can't build like host a competing platform. 07:01.020 --> 07:07.180 You can't with with N810 you can't take N810 change it a little bit, make N810 version two or version 07:07.180 --> 07:09.340 three as it would be now because version two is just coming out. 07:09.580 --> 07:15.820 You can't take N810 version three and then start selling it to people at a premium, and you can't even 07:15.820 --> 07:17.580 sell it to your clients. 07:17.580 --> 07:19.020 So you can sell services. 07:19.020 --> 07:24.820 You can sell your n810 services that you will build n810 automations for your clients, but you can't 07:24.820 --> 07:29.140 sell the product itself because that belongs to N810. 07:29.180 --> 07:31.980 And this seems to me to be so very reasonable. 07:31.980 --> 07:37.420 It's such a great model, and because we want to make sure that the N810 team themselves are incented 07:37.420 --> 07:42.900 to keep building this out, we wouldn't want other companies to use their own product to compete with 07:42.900 --> 07:43.340 them. 07:43.340 --> 07:44.740 So it's common sense. 07:44.860 --> 07:45.940 It makes a ton of sense. 07:45.940 --> 07:50.820 And that is the fair code license that's built around the N810 product. 07:50.820 --> 07:56.860 And so again, to sum up, you can download N810 software, run it on your computer for free. 07:57.060 --> 07:59.140 You can build stuff for your own business. 07:59.140 --> 08:04.750 You can build stuff for other businesses and sell them the stuff that you build and your services to 08:04.790 --> 08:05.510 build it. 08:05.550 --> 08:09.270 What you can't do is sell the product, the product itself. 08:09.270 --> 08:10.310 And there are these two modes. 08:10.350 --> 08:18.110 You can either do it yourself with downloading the software or if you want, you can run on cloud deployment, 08:18.110 --> 08:20.470 but then you do need to pay a subscription for that. 08:20.510 --> 08:23.790 It starts at at about $24 a month or $20 a month. 08:23.790 --> 08:26.590 If you pay for it for a year at least, at least for me. 08:26.790 --> 08:29.790 And there are other tiers if you want to have more automations. 08:30.030 --> 08:31.590 And so those are the different models. 08:31.590 --> 08:36.390 There is another model as well called white label, which is if you do want to build a product that 08:36.430 --> 08:37.990 embeds N810. 08:38.150 --> 08:43.110 And of course that comes with commercial terms as you would expect, as is completely fair. 08:43.230 --> 08:47.310 And that's one where if you want to do it, there's a kind of contact Us button on the website, and 08:47.310 --> 08:48.310 you should definitely do that. 08:48.310 --> 08:53.150 If you're thinking that you could embed N810 within an existing product that you own. 08:53.470 --> 08:58.990 Okay, so now hopefully I think you probably already knew what N810 was, but maybe you know, a little 08:59.030 --> 08:59.830 bit more now. 09:00.070 --> 09:01.590 All right, let's get to it.