Human agent collaboration

Perception Agents — Antje Barth, Amazon AGI Lab

Perception Agents — Antje Barth, Amazon AGI Lab

Antje Barth of Amazon AGI Lab discusses the architectural gap in current AI agents, which excel at individual tasks but fail at complex, end-to-end workflows due to a lack of reliability and contextual understanding. She introduces "Perception Agents"—AI systems that see, reason, and act on computers like humans, using visual and multimodal input to enable reliable collaboration and close the perception-action loop, highlighting new open-source tools for annotation and verification.

AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Orchestration — Ido Salomon

AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Orchestration — Ido Salomon

As the number of AI agents grows, humans become the bottleneck. This talk introduces AgentCraft, a game-inspired orchestrator that draws lessons from Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games to enhance human-agent collaboration, improve visibility, and increase agent autonomy, ultimately raising the ceiling of what's possible.