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AI Agents: What They Are and How They Will Change Work

Artificial intelligence has moved beyond simply answering questions and generating text. A new generation of AI systems—known as AI agents—is emerging with the ability to plan tasks, use tools, make decisions, and complete multi-step workflows with less human intervention. From managing emails and analyzing data to writing software and assisting customers, AI agents could significantly change how people work. What Are AI Agents? An AI agent is a software system that can perceive information, reason about a goal, take actions, and adapt based on the results. Traditional AI tools usually respond to a specific instruction. For example, you might ask an AI chatbot to summarize a document, and it provides a summary. An AI agent can go further. You could give an agent a goal such as: "Research three competitors, compare their pricing, summarize their main features, and prepare a report." The agent may then: 1) Understand the objective. 2) Break the task into smaller steps. 3) Searc...

ECONOMICS

INTRODUCTION:
          The origin of the term 'economics' lies in the Greek words Oiken and nomos which means 'laws of households'.
          According to Alfred Marshall, economics is the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.
          According to Lionel Robbins, economics is a social science concerned with allocation of scarce resources among competing ends.
          In modern meaning economics renders help in various matters of decision making like
a) Production decision : What to produce?
                                          How to produce?
b) Exchange decision : What price to                                                     charge?
                                         Whom to sell?
c) Consumption decision : What to                                                             consume?
                                               How much to                                                    consume?
CLASSIFICATION OF ECONOMICS:
          Ragnar Firsch has classified economic into two broad categories
1. Micro Economics
2. Macro Economics
Micro Economics:
          The term micro have been derived from the Greek words Mikros which means 'small' Micro economics deals with behaviour of individuals for example that of a consumer or a producer or a market.
Macro Economics:
          The term Macro have been derived from the Greek words Makros which mean 'Large'. Macro economics deals with the behaviour of aggregates for example national income, agricultural output, industrial output, total employment and unemployment etc.
SCOPE OF ECONOMICS:
          The scope of economics means the limits of the subject matter of economics. Economics studies how wealth is produced, distributed, exchanged and consumed. So the scope of economics is broadly classified as under
a) Consumption:
          Satisfaction of human wants is called Consumption. This explains how people behave in consumption of goods and services inorder to maximise their satisfaction.
b) Production:
          Goods and services have to be produced with the help of factors of production. Production is another branch of economic.
c) Exchange:
          Goods and services cannot be produced at one place or at one point of time. Goods produced by one are exchanged for the goods produced by the other.
d) Distribution:
          Goods and services produced have to be paid for or rewarded. i.e) The land gets rent, labour gets wage, Capital gets interest and the organizer gets profit.
e) Public finance: 
          This branch of study in economics studies about the sources of revenue to the government and the principles governing the expenditure for the benefit of the people.

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