In Microsoft’s view, humans are not the only ones to manage in a workplace. Artificial intelligence\u00a0needs a manager, too.<\/p>\n
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The software maker announced Microsoft Agent 365, a program for its customers to track what it expects to be 1.3 billion agents automating office work by 2028.<\/p>\n
Agents are AI-powered programs that\u00a0perform tasks on humans’ behalf.<\/p>\n
Microsoft and other companies are actively marketing agent software.<\/p>\n
While some customers have successfully deployed these systems for code generation, others have struggled with implementation, fueling concerns about a market bubble.<\/p>\n
According to Microsoft, just like IT staff can see who is on a company’s network and manage what resources they can access, its latest software aims to extend similar controls to supervising AI agents.<\/p>\n
The program lets IT personnel quarantine rogue agents while equipping authorised ones — whether built on Microsoft or other software like Salesforce – with a range of productivity tools and aiming to secure them from cyberattacks, said Microsoft.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In an interview, Judson Althoff, the CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, said the product came out of requests from business leaders to get a handle on AI agents at work and measure their return on investment.<\/p>\n
“Take supply chain. You might have an inventory agent. You might have an out-of-stock agent,” said Althoff.<\/p>\n
“Without this kind of a tool, understanding how those things compose in an overall process is really, really hard.”<\/p>\n
Microsoft Agent 365 is available to license holders that sign up for an early access program.<\/p>\n
The company announced the news at the start of Microsoft Ignite, a technology conference in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Other announcements included Work IQ, which lets companies build agents on top of the same intelligence and business data powering its AI called Microsoft 365 Copilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Microsoft’s view, humans are not the only ones to manage in a workplace. Artificial intelligence\u00a0needs a manager,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-293877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}