Babak Hodjat, Cognizant

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Babak Hodjat is CTO for AI at Cognizant where he leads the AI Research Lab, a team of developers and researchers bringing advanced AI solutions to businesses. Babak is the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist and has 25 granted or pending patents to his name. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima’s patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri.

Getting started with AI agents (part 2): Autonomy, safeguards and pitfalls

In our first installment, we outlined key strategies for leveraging AI agents to improve enterprise efficiency. I explained how, unlike standalone AI models, agents iteratively refine tasks using context and tools to enhance outcomes such as code generation. I also discussed how multi-agent systems foster communication across departments, creating a unified user experience and driving productivity, resilience and faster upgrades.

Babak Hodjat, Cognizant

November 24, 2024

Getting started with AI agents (part 1): Capturing processes, roles and connections

A modern-day AI agent consists of, at least, a large language model (LLM) that has been enabled to call some tools. Given the right set of tools for coding, it would start by generating the code, be able to run it in a container, observe the results, modify the code and therefore have a better chance of producing useful code.

Babak Hodjat, Cognizant

November 23, 2024