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No one knows what the hell an AI agent is
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- ttyprintk 2y agoHave we struggled with defining what a daemon is? When “it becomes challenging to benchmark performance and ensure consistent outcomes,” should I worry that different products don’t fully comprehend client-server architecture?
- toomuchtodo 2y agoA daemon or “non deterministic data pipeline” doesn’t command grandiose valuations. It must sound like magic.
- karmakaze 2y agoThe title seems like clickbait but also reflects an annoyance/frustration with overuse as marketing/sales tends to do. I ignore that and ask what exactly does your product do, then decide how to categorize it. My hand-wavy definition is basically as a chatbot gives an AI multi-modal input and output to a user, an agent has 'hands' which can produce an effect on a system rather than reporting to the user directly via media. The method of integration isn't really important, it could be using a public network API or as part of a compiled static binary, whatever.
- karmakaze 2y agoThere is of course the "Agent Hospital: A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents"[0] paper. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02957 https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02957
- philberto 2y agoBarely anyone will use this term in 2 years, just like nobody talks about copilots anymore. But for now: everything is labelled as agent.
- kemotep 2y agoMicrosoft literally renamed their Office Suite to more prominently feature Copilot.
- datadrivenangel 2y agoAnd in two years they'll drop it! Remember cortana!
- outer_web 2y agoTay Tweets remembers.
- hypothesis 2y agoFacebook is now Meta and no one cares about the supposed titular product anymore.
- stuaxo 2y agoIt's the blast processing that enables clipped to say "It look like you are writing a letter"
- WeylandYutani 2y agoThey invested billions into AI so you can be damn sure they call everything AI.
- nsonha 2y agoIt pretty clearly means AI that does things, as opposed to just presenting things. There can be a debate about the technical word "agent" in swe, but i dont see the confusion in the particular context of gen AI. Same for things like MCP, why does everyone suddenly have a stroke and argue over things with clear meaning now?
- sfmike 2y agoSome terms are all encompassing. This is one. Similar to the components or monad arguments.
- carlsborg 2y agoAnthropic blog has a nice distinction between LLM Workflows and Agents: LLM Workflows: predefined code paths. Includes retrieval/tools/memory, routing based chatbots, orchestrator-worker, iterative evaluator etc Agents: dynamically direct themselves. reasoning and planning, typically using tools based on env feedback in a loop.