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Course Outline

Fundamentals of AI Agents and Alibaba Cloud Services

  • Defining AI agents and distinguishing them from standard chat applications
  • Exploring common enterprise use cases like support, knowledge assistance, and task automation
  • Examining core agent components: models, prompts, tools, memory, and workflows
  • Surveying relevant Alibaba Cloud services for agent development and hosting

Environment Setup and Initial Model Interaction

  • Setting up the Alibaba Cloud account, workspace, and access credentials
  • Navigating the console, APIs, and foundational development setup
  • Accessing foundation models via Model Studio or equivalent services
  • Making initial model calls and validating response flows

Constructing a Basic Agent Workflow

  • Defining the agent's role, task boundaries, and expected outputs
  • Crafting clear prompts and instructions for consistent behavior
  • Managing user input, response formatting, and basic conversation logic
  • Testing and refining the agent with practical examples

Incorporating Enterprise Knowledge via Retrieval

  • Understanding retrieval-augmented generation in practical contexts
  • Preparing business documents and content for knowledge grounding
  • Linking the agent to a knowledge source for query response
  • Evaluating answer accuracy, relevance, and traceability

Tool Utilization, Deployment, and Operations

  • Enabling the agent to invoke external tools, APIs, or lightweight cloud functions
  • Creating simple business workflows such as lookups, summarization, or ticket support
  • Deploying the agent for internal use with appropriate access controls
  • Monitoring logs, usage, quality, and costs with practical operational safeguards

Conclusion and Implementation Planning

  • Reviewing the end-to-end agent architecture and workflow
  • Identifying suitable business scenarios for pilot projects
  • Outlining next steps for improvement, governance, and team adoption

Requirements

  • Fundamental knowledge of cloud computing concepts and web APIs
  • Experience navigating cloud consoles and command-line interfaces
  • Basic proficiency in Python programming

Target Audience

  • Developers keen on building AI-driven applications using Alibaba Cloud
  • Cloud engineers and solution architects investigating AI agent use cases
  • Technical teams tasked with prototyping or deploying intelligent assistants
 7 Hours

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