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I suspect that the pursuit of LLM agents is rooted in falling for the illusion of a mind which LLMs so easily weave. So much of the stuff being built on LLMs i
by causal 2y ago
I suspect that the pursuit of LLM agents is rooted in falling for the illusion of a mind which LLMs so easily weave.
So much of the stuff being built on LLMs in general seems fixated on making that illusion more believable.
- rbren 2y agoThis is an interesting take, but I don't think it quite captures the idea of "agents". I prefer to think of agents as _feedback loops_, with an LLM as the engine. An agent takes an action in the world, sees the results, then takes another action. This is what makes them so much more powerful than a raw LLM.
- bofadeez 2y agoThat works if the LLM has adequate external feedback from a terminal and browser in context with the past trial etc. It can't self-correct its own reasoning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01798 https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01798
- causal 2y agoI think "sees the results" also embeds the idea of a mind. An LLM doesn't have a mind to see or plan or think with. An LLM in a loop creates agency much like a car rolling downhill is self driving.