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People have been talking about agents for at least 2 years. Remember when AgentGPT came out? How's that going so far? Agents are just LLMs with structured outpu
by behnamoh 2y ago
People have been talking about agents for at least 2 years. Remember when AgentGPT came out? How's that going so far? Agents are just LLMs with structured output, which often happens to be a JSON with info about a function arguments to be called.
- mindcrime 2y ago> People have been talking about agents for at least 2 years. WAY longer than that. What's come to the forefront specifically in the last year or two is very specific subset of the overall agent landscape. What I like to call "LLM Agents". But "Agents" at large date back to at least the 1980's if not before. For some of the history of all of this, see this page and some of the listed citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent > Agents are just LLMs with structured output That's only true for the "LLM Agent" version. There are Agents that have nothing to do with LLM's at all.
- simonw 2y agoRight - the term "user-agent" shows up in the HTTP/1.0 spec from 1996: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1945 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1945 and there's plenty of history of debates about the meaning of the term before then. In 1994 people were already complaining that the term that had no universal agreed definition: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/12/michael-wooldridge/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/12/michael-wooldridge/
- mindcrime 2y agoYes. I am fond of saying "If you're talking about agents and think the term is something new, go back and read everything Michael Wooldridge ever wrote before talking any further". :-)