India, Oct. 24 -- For years, automation was the enterprise standard for driving efficiency. Rules were written, tasks were scripted, and systems executed precisely what they were told. Payroll ran on schedule, shipments were logged, and tickets were escalated by logic, hardcoded into workflow engines. It worked until complexity grew faster than rules could keep up.

Now, a new form of intelligence is taking root inside enterprises. Unlike traditional automation, which is predefined and limited by the imagination of its designers, autonomous AI systems operate independently. They can set goals, reason, observe, learn, adapt, and even act with little or no human intervention.

Advanced autonomous AI agents perceive and interpret multi-modal...