AI models such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, can be used to power agents – ‘harnesses’ that allow the models to interact directly with the real world. It’s a recent innovation, and an increasingly controversial one. In any case, agents are not automatically equipped with the abilities they will need when roaming a network or a database, since the requisite tools for various missions and modes will differ. They may need Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities, for instance, in order to…