This reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality-is-the-tiger-and-agents-are-its-teeth https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC5

This reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality-is-the-tiger-and-agents-are-its-teeth https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality... One point the article makes is that getting from a "prediction engine" type of AI to an "agent" type of AI is probably just a matter of sticking the prediction engine in the python loop that goes while true: next_actions = engine.complete("What are the best actions to take to achieve %s" % objective); requests = engine.complete("Write a list of HTTP requests that perform the following actions: %s" % next_actions) http.execute_requests(requests) It wouldn't be literally that easy, and the engine would require a lot of ChatGPT-style fine-tuning first, but it wouldn't require a completely novel breakthrough in machine learning.