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arXiv:2412.16241cs.AI

Agents Are Not Enough

Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White

Abstract

In the midst of the growing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into various aspects of our lives, agents are experiencing a resurgence. These autonomous programs that act on behalf of humans are neither new nor exclusive to the mainstream AI movement. By exploring past incarnations of agents, we can understand what has been done previously, what worked, and more importantly, what did not pan out and why. This understanding lets us to examine what distinguishes the current focus on agents. While generative AI is appealing, this technology alone is insufficient to make new generations of agents more successful. To make the current wave of agents effective and sustainable, we envision an ecosystem that includes not only agents but also Sims, which represent user preferences and behaviors, as well as Assistants, which directly interact with the user and coordinate the execution of user tasks with the help of the agents.

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cs.AIArtificial Intelligence cs.HCHuman-Computer Interaction cs.MAMultiagent Systems

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  1. What Is an AI Agent? 1 comment

    • "an agent is a software system that utilizes an LLM to make model driven decisions on a wide variety of non-deterministic inputs.". I beg to differ. "These autonomous programs that act on behalf of humans are neither new nor exclusive to the mainstream AI movement"…

      cratermoonView on HNParent context

  2. Agents Are Not Enough 4 comments

    • Here's a link to arxiv page for the paper, in case you want to look over the abstract and citation metadata before downloading the PDF. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16241

      cratermoonView on HNParent context

    • For those who dont want to down load the PDF directly and prefer to start with the abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16241

      beezleView on HNParent context

    • https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2412.16241 is the non-pdf version of this @dang can you please replace the link?

      joshkaView on HNParent context

    • Ok! changed from https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2412.16241.

      dangView on HNParent context

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