The Evolution Of AI Agents
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Babak Hodjat, CTO for artificial intelligence (AI) for Cognizant, traces the evolution of AI agents from the initial launch of Apple Siri to a new era of agentic AI.
In this interview, Babak Hodjat, CTO for AI at Cognizant, explains how the journey to generative AI (GenAI) and intelligent agents began long before Siri, with early AI agents operating in limited environments like the web.
These early systems evolved into today's more powerful AI agents, thanks to GenAI's ability to better understand and reason with natural language. Hodjat highlights the growing importance of multi-agent systems that can interact and collaborate to carry out tasks on behalf of users.
This interconnected network of agents reflects an emerging digital ecosystem that mirrors the structure of modern enterprises-working much like microservices with the ability to coordinate across functions.