Introduction

Lab goals	Learn the basics of building AI agents
What you'll learn	What are AI agents
	When to use AI agents?
	Components of an AI agent
	Agent Architectures
	Building an AI agent
	Adding memory to agents
Time to complete	90 mins

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For this lab, you will need:

• Basic to intermediate knowledge of Python
• A laptop with the latest version of Python installed

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