an agent in every cup

By contrast, the definition I proposed—AGI is achieved when it makes economic sense to keep your agent running continuously—is a binary, irreversible, and immovable threshold: Once we are running our agents 24/7, we’ve hit it, and there’s no going back. (After all, we can’t uninvent it.)

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An agent can be thought of as a logical wrapper around an LLM, allowing us to add several features to our AI systems, primarily:

• Tool usage, such as calling APIs for info, executing code,


• Internal thoughts over multiple generation steps


• Ability to use various tools and reasoning steps to answer more complex queries.


• Parallel agents can go and complete

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It’s becoming increasingly clear that the vast majority of useful AI is not about creating an artificial human personality. It is about creating tools that are endowed with intelligence, and capable of performing far more complex tasks than before.