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by lachlan_gray 975 days ago
In a way it is the same thing, agents are mostly an abstraction that make it easier to know what’s going on.

I think of agents more or less as python classes with a mixture of natural language and code functions. You design them to do something with information they produce, and to interface with other agents or “tools” in some way.

But all the agents can be the same language model under the hood, they are frames used to build different kinds of contexts.

And yes I think the idea is that emergent behaviour can be useful. This comes to mind

https://github.com/MineDojo/Voyager

But I think we are still a small ways off from being really smart about agents. My opinion is that we haven’t quite figured out what we are doing yet.