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"agent" is a buzzword. All it is, is a bunch of LLM calls in a while loop. - 'rag' is meaningless as a concept. imagine calling a web app 'database augmented p
by tk90 2y ago
"agent" is a buzzword. All it is, is a bunch of LLM calls in a while loop.
- 'rag' is meaningless as a concept. imagine calling a web app 'database augmented programming'. [1]
- 'agent' probably just means 'run an llm in a loop' [1]
[1] https://x.com/atroyn/status/1819396701217870102 https://x.com/atroyn/status/1819396701217870102
- alsima 2y agohonestly agree. When I first started working with agents I didnt fully understand what it really was either but I eventually fell on a definition of an LLM call that performs a unique function proactively ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- delichon 2y ago> All it is, is a bunch of LLM calls in a while loop. Consciousness may be such a loop. Look outward, look at your response, repeat. Like the illusion of motion created by frames per second. To me it is concerning that proper useful agents may emerge from such a simple loop. E.g just repeatedly asking a sufficiently intelligent AI, "what action within my power shall I perform next in order to maximize the mass of paperclips in the universe," interleaved by performing that act and recording the result.
- llm_trw 2y agoThere is a lot more to agents than 'change the system prompt and send it again to the same model'. It's just that the tools to do this are non-existent and each application needs to be bespoke. It's like programming without an OS.