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Paperback. The field of artificial intelligence is undergoing one of its most profound transformations since the advent of deep learning itself. Where once models were confined to processing a single type of data-text, image, or audio-in isolation, today's frontier systems ingest and reason across multiple modalities simultaneously while exhibiting a new and far more ambitious capability: agency. These multimodal models with agentic behavior no longer merely answer questions or generate content; they perceive the world through vision, language, and sound, maintain contextual memory, formulate plans, select and invoke external tools, observe the consequences of their actions, and iteratively refine their strategies until a goal is achieved. This convergence of deep perceptual understanding and autonomous executive function marks the transition from intelligent assistants to truly intelligent agents.The implications of this shift are difficult to overstate. Industries that have relied on rigid robotic process automation for decades are suddenly discovering that the same underlying models powering conversational chatbots can now extract unstructured data from scanned invoices, interpret dashboard screenshots, navigate web interfaces, control robotic arms, draft regulatory reports, and even negotiate pricing through email-all without human-designed rules for every edge case. Creative professionals who once viewed AI as a generator of isolated images or paragraphs now collaborate with systems that can ingest a mood board, understand a brand guideline document, critique their own drafts, and iterate until the output aligns with both aesthetic and commercial objectives. Researchers who spent years labeling datasets by hand now delegate literature reviews, hypothesis generation, and even experimental protocol design to agents that read papers, extract figures, run statistical analyses, and propose follow-up studies. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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