Robots Versus Humans

Generalist AI agents

Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would

Adobe develops AI agent that selects appropriate editing tools like a professional Photoshop user.

Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for each task and lets a standard language model choose the best result based on measured image data. The approach works, but it needs about ten times the compute.