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AI Agents will be the death of the AI hype. Nobody knows what is a agent. Is running a scraping script an agent? Is something that constructs code on itself bas

AI Agents will be the death of the AI hype. Nobody knows what is a agent. Is running a scraping script an agent? Is something that constructs code on itself based on plain english requirement an agent? What comes aftet agent? Nobody knows. It's like the hype of chatbot LLMs circa '21-23.

llm_trw 2y ago
An AI agent is an LLM attached to some external tool. That's it. What people are confused about is what groups of agents are, how they are managed and how they interact with each other. They are confused because no one is building real multi-agent systems in the open which work. Trying to build multi-step logical LLMs with the paltry memory we have today is about as effective as trying to play 8k video on a Intel 8008. All the attention is on the LLMs themselves, which is the same thing as being excited about a CPU in 1970. Sure they are amazing engineering, but you will need another layer on top to make them actually useful. Historically it was apple that first got the software right. We are now waiting for the first company to get a multi-agent system right - but again thanks to the tiny memories we have because of NVidia it will have to run in the data center, or it will be a decade away.
tkgally 2y ago
A few weeks ago, Anthropic published what seemed to me to be a level-headed discussion of agents: https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents Simon Willison had some valuable comments about that article: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-agents/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-age...
cloudking 2y ago
What is the difference between an Agent and Function Calls?
Ancapistani 2y ago
> It's like the hype of chatbot LLMs circa '21-23. That’s funny, since I’m using a “chatbot LLM” right now in another window, writing code.

llm_trw 2y ago

An AI agent is an LLM attached to some external tool. That's it. What people are confused about is what groups of agents are, how they are managed and how they interact with each other. They are confused because no one is building real multi-agent systems in the open which work. Trying to build multi-step logical LLMs with the paltry memory we have today is about as effective as trying to play 8k video on a Intel 8008. All the attention is on the LLMs themselves, which is the same thing as being excited about a CPU in 1970. Sure they are amazing engineering, but you will need another layer on top to make them actually useful. Historically it was apple that first got the software right. We are now waiting for the first company to get a multi-agent system right - but again thanks to the tiny memories we have because of NVidia it will have to run in the data center, or it will be a decade away.

tkgally 2y ago

A few weeks ago, Anthropic published what seemed to me to be a level-headed discussion of agents: https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents Simon Willison had some valuable comments about that article: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-agents/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-age...

cloudking 2y ago

What is the difference between an Agent and Function Calls?

Ancapistani 2y ago

> It's like the hype of chatbot LLMs circa '21-23. That’s funny, since I’m using a “chatbot LLM” right now in another window, writing code.