The Anatomy of Autonomy: Why Agents are the next AI Killer App after ChatGPT

Finding the right balance between autonomy and control depends on the specific application space. Park says one of the main challenges with generative agents is that they need a very clear objective function.

First off, a primer on autonomous agents: - Give them a task - Give them memory - Give them access to tools - They decide on-the-fly how to accomplish your task and remove you from this process because... it's autonomous - Watch them attempt to do the work

Start by developing systems that can represent the core frameworks of human knowledge: time, space, causality, basic knowledge of physical objects and their interactions, basic knowledge of humans and their interactions. Embed these in an architecture that can be freely extended to every kind of knowledge, keeping always in mind the central tenets

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