AI Agents Made Simple: How AI Agents Answer Questions Using Domain Knowledge | by Shawn Shi | January, 2025

It reduces how enterprise AI agents are designed to answer customer questions using domain knowledge and base answers strictly on domain knowledge.

Have you ever wondered what the capabilities of advanced AI agents are on today's most advanced platforms? For example, in the screenshot above, I ask the AI agent at richsimple.com a question about interest, it gives a specific answer to Wealthsimple products and limits it to Wealthsimple products only. It didn't tell me the interest rate for the Bank of America checking account.
How does this work? You might say it's easy, LLM (major language model)! Of course, but there is more to it than just an LLM. AI-powered agents, at least the good ones, are powered by large language models so they can understand language and can conduct support sessions in a chat format, such as ChatGPT. BUT, a big but, and it has two unique features that go beyond the general purpose of ChatGPT:
- AI agents search the domain knowledge base and provide the latest data to answer your questions. A domain database can be private business data that is not searchable on the web…